Africa Youth Day 2022

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 Knowledge Initiative Africa Youth Day 2022 campaign launch webinar on 29th October 2022

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

Africa Youth Day 2022 Flier

Euphemia Uwandu
Douglas Ssebaggala
Francesc Fort
James Popoola
Eben Mlay
Mrb Rafia
Ceslause Ogbonna

Partners

Africa Knowledge Initiative
Wikimedia Foundation
African Union
Africa No Filter

International Prizes Category

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

$50 gift card for top four female editors

The communities with the most contribution will receive certificate of recognition.

Winners

Africa Youth Day 2022 Campaign Winners

Top three users with the most contribution across all Wikimedia Project:

Top Local Africa language Wikipedia

AU Africa Official Languages on Wikipedia

Top contributor for French - Charbel1719
Top contributor for English - LikamboisaacK

Most diversified contributor (contributions in different wikimedia projects)

Charbel1719

New User with the most contribution:

Yaw tuba

Top four female users with the most contribution

Community with the most contribution

Open Foundation West Africa