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Event:International Literacy Day 2025 in Gombe Network

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Start and end time22:26, 4 September 2025 – 22:26, 30 September 2025
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Number of participants42 participants
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International Literacy Day 2025 in Gombe Network

    Background

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    Literacy is a fundamental human right, according to the United Nations (UN). Literacy empowers individuals to access and enjoy other rights, and enhance freedoms. It helps in acquiring essential knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes that benefit people in many ways.

    The UN hence marks International Literacy Day (ILD) on September 8 annually. This year’s observation is themed: Promoting multilingual education: Literacy for mutual understanding and peace.

    The Wikimedia User Group Gombe Network is excited to commemorate International Literacy Day 2025 with a series of impactful events aimed to address the literacy gap in Gombe Wikimedia Community, where many people can speak local languages fluently but cannot read or write in them. This challenge limits access to knowledge and participation in knowledge creation in local Wikimedia projects in these languages such as Hausa and Fulfude. In line with this year’s theme, “Promoting multilingual education: Literacy for Mutual Understanding and Peace”, we aim to organize booth camp training in September to promote literacy in the major language spoken in gombe which is Hausa. Through community outreach and Booth Camp community members will learn how to contribute effectively to creation and use of Wikimedia content in local languages, fostering inclusion, cultural preservation, and mutual understanding.

    Activities

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    International Literacy Day 2025 in Gombe Network
    Date Activity Notes
    4th September Announcing International Literacy Day and launching International Literacy Day 2025 in Gombe Network
    • Social media promotion and Diff post
    • Call for partners
    6th September Virtual Session 1 (Week 1) Training and introduction to the project.
    Week 2 September 13th Physical Session Hands-on training and recruitment of new and existing editors.
    Week 3 September 20th Virtual Session Q&A session to address participants’ questions and challenges.
    4th to 30th September Month-long Edit-a-thon Continuous editing and contribution activities throughout the month.
    TBA Announcement of Top Contributors Activity to be announced

    Competition Details:

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    In celebration of International Literacy Day 2025 in Gombe Network, we’re excited to announce a month-long online data contribution competition from September 4th to September 30th, 2025! This competition aims to boost multilingual education, encouraging participants to contribute valuable information.

    Note: Use the #ILDGombeNetwork in your edit summary to enable us track your edits easily. This is an essential part of the contest rule.

    Prizes:

    • 1st Place: ₦20,000 worth of vouchers
    • 2nd Place: ₦15,000 worth of vouchers
    • 3rd Place: ₦10,000 worth of vouchers
    • 4th Place: ₦5,000 worth of vouchers

    Top contributors will be evaluated based on the quality and quantity of their edits, with winners announced during our closing event TBA. Whether you're new to editing or experienced, join us to contribute and celebrate International Literacy Day 2025 in Gombe Network!

    Grading System

    1. New/ Translated Wikipedia articles to Hausa language: +10 points each
    2. Improved Wikipedia Hausa articles (at least 1,000 bytes, well-sourced): +5 points
    3. Quality referencing (reliable sources/citations): +3 points
    4. Adding media to hausa Wikipedia articles: +5 points
    5. Translation of Wikidata item Description into Hausa: +3 points

    list of articles you can work on.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Literacy

    Happy editing...

    List of Items created by participants

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    (Please do not add wrong edits! It will be deleted by the Organisers!!!)c

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