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(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to african-wikimedians-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org