Africa Youth Day 2022
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The Africa Youth Day (AYD) 2022, celebrated as one of the African Union (AU) holidays aims to engage African wikimedia youth and the entire African Wikimedia community in activities that will contribute to content related to this year's Africa Youth Day theme "Breaking the Barriers to Meaningful Youth Participation and Inclusion in Advocacy".
Africa is considered the world's youngest population with more than 400 million youth aged between the ages of 15 to 35 years. This also manifests in African Wikimedia communities where about 80% of the community population is young people under the age of 35 specifically in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Zambia, and Somali. Hence, leaders and communities in Africa recognise young people as the backbone of the Wikimedia movement in the region.
Given these numbers and representation, it becomes important and glaring on how young african wikimedians, working together with support from partners and larger wikimedia community have the potential to increase coverage of African-related topics on Wikimedia projects. The objective of this year's Africa Youth Day is to bring attention to the tremendous community change that happens when african wikimedia youth are given the right support and resources and how this could lead to increased participation in advocacy for open knowledge.
The theme of this year's Africa Youth Day is an open call to African youth to join and participate in advocacy specifically for free knowledge.
Core Organizing Team edit
- Euphemia Uwandu
- Douglas Ssebaggala
- Francesc Fort
- James Popoola
- Eben Mlay
- Mrb Rafia
- Ceslause Ogbonna
Partners edit
- Africa Knowledge Initiative
- Wikimedia Foundation
- African Union
- Africa No Filter
International Prizes Category edit
Winning prizes for the top three users with the most contribution across all Wikimedia Project:
- 1st Prize - $500 gift voucher
- 2nd Prize - $400 gift voucher
- 3rd Prize - $300 gift voucher
Local Africa language Wikipedia (Top 3) - $100 gift voucher each
AU Africa Official Languages on Wikipedia
- Top contributor for French - $100 gift voucher
- Top contributor for English - $100 gift voucher
- Top contributor for Arabic - $100 gift voucher
- Top contributor for Swahili - $100 gift voucher
- Top contributor for Portuguese - $100 gift voucher
Most diversified contributor (contributions in different wikimedia projects) - $150 gift voucher
Winning prize for the new user with the most contribution:
- $100 gift card for one person
Gender Prizes Category edit
- $50 gift card for top four female editors
The communities with the most contribution will receive certificate of recognition.
Winners edit
Top three users with the most contribution across all Wikimedia Project:
Top Local Africa language Wikipedia
- SIR SUCCESS (NAA JAHINFO) - Dagbani
- Sadammuhammad11234 - Hausa
- JudithShe - Setswana
AU Africa Official Languages on Wikipedia
- Top contributor for French - Charbel1719
- Top contributor for English - LikamboisaacK
Most diversified contributor (contributions in different wikimedia projects)
New User with the most contribution:
Top four female users with the most contribution
Community with the most contribution
- Open Foundation West Africa