Africa Wiki Challenge/About us

Africa Wiki Challenge is an online campaign that calls on Africans all over the world, to contribute to African-related content online.

Many times, most African-related article(s) do not have videos or photos to help visualise the topic and add to the credibility. Inadvertently, this reduces the interest in reading existing African-related articles on Wikipedia.

It goes without saying that Ghana and for that matter Africa is lacking, especially in terms of content on Wikipedia.

Most annual Wikimedia conferences organised both in Africa and outside Africa, from WikiIndaba to Wikimania have sought to find practical ways to deal with this African content gap. This Campaign is a giant step in the attempt to bridge the existing Africa-related content gap on the world's largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Days to AWC 2021

The Africa Wiki Challenge is hosted by Open Foundation West Africa, and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

IMPORTANT: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this campaign will be fully virtual. Please note that the threat of contracting COVID-19 is still present globally and we encourage participants to exercise EXTREME CAUTION. Do not attend in-person events or take photographs anywhere without a mask. We would prefer that you use images from your archive or as you go about your daily practices. Please do not place yourself (or any person with you) at risk or in danger. #staysafe.