Hello everyone,
The African Knowledge Initiative https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative (AKI), seeks to leverage the Wikimedia tools and platforms to breed innovative solutions to bridging the content gap on global digital knowledge networks.
This year Open Foundation West Africa’s http://ofwafrica.org annual writing contest the Africa Wiki Challenge was used as an avenue to help achieve AKI’s goal.
The campaign was named the Africa Day Campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Day_Campaign_2023 and themed "Africa Free Continent Trade" to align with the Africa Union Day 2023 theme.
From the Campaign's Program Dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/africa_day_campaign_2023/overview, we tracked a total of 20 Programs, with 473 editors, from 13 countries contributing to 4000 articles
After months of intense and rigorous reviews by the Africa Day Contest Jury, we are elated to announce the winners of the Africa Day Campaign 2023.
Congratulations to the winners of the campaign.
Winners
Winner- User:Muhammed Idriss Criteria from Nigeria- 502 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia
2nd Winner - User:Gwanki from Nigeria- 183 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia
3rd Winner- User:Charbel1719 Benin - 75 new articles in French Wikipedia
Top Female Contributor- User:Mercyjamb123 - 66 new articles in Igbo Wikipedia
We are super grateful to our international jury team who worked effortlessly to ensure that the winners were identified.
International Jury
User: Azogbonon - Benin
User: Yaw Tuba - Ghana
User: Anani A. George- Ghana
User: Bile_rene - Cameroon
User: Justine Msechu -Tanzania
User: Memoriesghana -Ghana
User: Kwaku Berko- Ghana
To all our partners, local organizers, and editors, we appreciate your efforts in making this campaign a success.
[image: Africa Day Campaign 2023 (2).png]
[image: AFRICA DAY CAMPAIGN STATS.png]
Kind Regards,
Eugene Masiku
Such a great outcome and on such an important and timely topic, congratulations to the organizers, winners and contributors!
*Masana Mulaudzi (She/Her)*
Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 9:07 AM Eugene Masiku emasiku@ofwafrica.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
The African Knowledge Initiative https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative (AKI), seeks to leverage the Wikimedia tools and platforms to breed innovative solutions to bridging the content gap on global digital knowledge networks.
This year Open Foundation West Africa’s http://ofwafrica.org annual writing contest the Africa Wiki Challenge was used as an avenue to help achieve AKI’s goal.
The campaign was named the Africa Day Campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Day_Campaign_2023 and themed "Africa Free Continent Trade" to align with the Africa Union Day 2023 theme.
From the Campaign's Program Dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/africa_day_campaign_2023/overview, we tracked a total of 20 Programs, with 473 editors, from 13 countries contributing to 4000 articles
After months of intense and rigorous reviews by the Africa Day Contest Jury, we are elated to announce the winners of the Africa Day Campaign 2023.
Congratulations to the winners of the campaign.
Winners
Winner- User:Muhammed Idriss Criteria from Nigeria- 502 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia
2nd Winner - User:Gwanki from Nigeria- 183 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia
3rd Winner- User:Charbel1719 Benin - 75 new articles in French Wikipedia
Top Female Contributor- User:Mercyjamb123 - 66 new articles in Igbo Wikipedia
We are super grateful to our international jury team who worked effortlessly to ensure that the winners were identified.
International Jury
User: Azogbonon - Benin
User: Yaw Tuba - Ghana
User: Anani A. George- Ghana
User: Bile_rene - Cameroon
User: Justine Msechu -Tanzania
User: Memoriesghana -Ghana
User: Kwaku Berko- Ghana
To all our partners, local organizers, and editors, we appreciate your efforts in making this campaign a success.
[image: Africa Day Campaign 2023 (2).png]
[image: AFRICA DAY CAMPAIGN STATS.png]
Kind Regards,
Eugene Masiku
-- Eugene Makafui Masiku, Communications Officer Open Foundation West Africa _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list -- african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to african-wikimedians-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
Very interesting and beautiful analysis
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 11:14 AM Masana Mulaudzi mmulaudzi@wikimedia.org wrote:
Such a great outcome and on such an important and timely topic, congratulations to the organizers, winners and contributors!
*Masana Mulaudzi (She/Her)*
Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 9:07 AM Eugene Masiku emasiku@ofwafrica.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
The African Knowledge Initiative https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative (AKI), seeks to leverage the Wikimedia tools and platforms to breed innovative solutions to bridging the content gap on global digital knowledge networks.
This year Open Foundation West Africa’s http://ofwafrica.org annual writing contest the Africa Wiki Challenge was used as an avenue to help achieve AKI’s goal.
The campaign was named the Africa Day Campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Day_Campaign_2023 and themed "Africa Free Continent Trade" to align with the Africa Union Day 2023 theme.
From the Campaign's Program Dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/africa_day_campaign_2023/overview, we tracked a total of 20 Programs, with 473 editors, from 13 countries contributing to 4000 articles
After months of intense and rigorous reviews by the Africa Day Contest Jury, we are elated to announce the winners of the Africa Day Campaign 2023.
Congratulations to the winners of the campaign.
Winners
Winner- User:Muhammed Idriss Criteria from Nigeria- 502 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia
2nd Winner - User:Gwanki from Nigeria- 183 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia
3rd Winner- User:Charbel1719 Benin - 75 new articles in French Wikipedia
Top Female Contributor- User:Mercyjamb123 - 66 new articles in Igbo Wikipedia
We are super grateful to our international jury team who worked effortlessly to ensure that the winners were identified.
International Jury
User: Azogbonon - Benin
User: Yaw Tuba - Ghana
User: Anani A. George- Ghana
User: Bile_rene - Cameroon
User: Justine Msechu -Tanzania
User: Memoriesghana -Ghana
User: Kwaku Berko- Ghana
To all our partners, local organizers, and editors, we appreciate your efforts in making this campaign a success.
[image: Africa Day Campaign 2023 (2).png]
[image: AFRICA DAY CAMPAIGN STATS.png]
Kind Regards,
Eugene Masiku
-- Eugene Makafui Masiku, Communications Officer Open Foundation West Africa _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list -- african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to african-wikimedians-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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HI Masana, AfroCROWD also participated, how can we be part of the listing? Thanks, Cheers, Sherry
*Sherry-Ann L. Antoine, MPA*
Program Development and Outreach Strategist
Executive Director, Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCrowd), AfroCROWD.org http://afrocrowd.org/, @AfroCROWDit, #AfroCROWD
Lead Organizer, Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_the_Caribbean_User_Group/WikiCari_Festival#:~:text=Wikimedians%20of%20the%20Caribbean%20aims%20to%20achieve%20this,awareness%20of%20various%20parts%20of%20our%20regional%20culture., @WikiCari, #WikiCaribbean
Co-Organizer, News On Wiki NOW https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/News_on_Wiki/Present, @NewsWiki1, #NewsOnWiki
Board of Directors, The Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY), ISOC-NY.org http://isoc-ny.org/
Phone / Whatsapp: 1(718) 772-4802
She/ her/ hers
*Sent in a hurry. Please excuse any typos, thanks.
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 6:14 PM Masana Mulaudzi mmulaudzi@wikimedia.org wrote:
Such a great outcome and on such an important and timely topic, congratulations to the organizers, winners and contributors!
*Masana Mulaudzi (She/Her)*
Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 9:07 AM Eugene Masiku emasiku@ofwafrica.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
The African Knowledge Initiative https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative (AKI), seeks to leverage the Wikimedia tools and platforms to breed innovative solutions to bridging the content gap on global digital knowledge networks.
This year Open Foundation West Africa’s http://ofwafrica.org annual writing contest the Africa Wiki Challenge was used as an avenue to help achieve AKI’s goal.
The campaign was named the Africa Day Campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Day_Campaign_2023 and themed "Africa Free Continent Trade" to align with the Africa Union Day 2023 theme.
From the Campaign's Program Dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/africa_day_campaign_2023/overview, we tracked a total of 20 Programs, with 473 editors, from 13 countries contributing to 4000 articles
After months of intense and rigorous reviews by the Africa Day Contest Jury, we are elated to announce the winners of the Africa Day Campaign 2023.
Congratulations to the winners of the campaign.
Winners
Winner- User:Muhammed Idriss Criteria from Nigeria- 502 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia
2nd Winner - User:Gwanki from Nigeria- 183 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia
3rd Winner- User:Charbel1719 Benin - 75 new articles in French Wikipedia
Top Female Contributor- User:Mercyjamb123 - 66 new articles in Igbo Wikipedia
We are super grateful to our international jury team who worked effortlessly to ensure that the winners were identified.
International Jury
User: Azogbonon - Benin
User: Yaw Tuba - Ghana
User: Anani A. George- Ghana
User: Bile_rene - Cameroon
User: Justine Msechu -Tanzania
User: Memoriesghana -Ghana
User: Kwaku Berko- Ghana
To all our partners, local organizers, and editors, we appreciate your efforts in making this campaign a success.
[image: Africa Day Campaign 2023 (2).png]
[image: AFRICA DAY CAMPAIGN STATS.png]
Kind Regards,
Eugene Masiku
-- Eugene Makafui Masiku, Communications Officer Open Foundation West Africa _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list -- african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to african-wikimedians-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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