{"id":7123,"date":"2025-08-11T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:19:29","slug":"announcing-the-focus-of-the-inaugural-wilson-oluoha-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/announcing-the-focus-of-the-inaugural-wilson-oluoha-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the focus of the inaugural Wilson Oluoha Prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-1000x667-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-1000x667-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.wikiinafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-360x240-1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikiinafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikiinafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-700x700-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Baze_University_-_Introduction_to_Wikipedia_03-1000x1000-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The late <strong>Wilson Oluoha presenting a training on Wikipedia to students at Baze University in Nigeria.<\/strong><br \/>Image Credit: File:Baze University \u2013 Introduction to Wikipedia 03.jpg <<a href=\"https:\/\/w.wiki\/Ezge\">https:\/\/w.wiki\/Ezge> OtuNwachinemere, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wiki In Africa is thrilled to announce the 2025 prize will celebrate regional communities!\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The Wilson Olouha Prize honours the contribution of our late colleague Wilson Kelechi Oluoha to Wiki Loves Africa. As Community Facilitator for Wiki Loves Africa, Wilson was dedicated to doing more to celebrate the work of communities and user groups across Africa in highlighting local knowledges and cultures via the contest.\u00a0 It is a fitting tribute to his vision that the focus of\u00a0 the inaugural prize in his name celebrates their efforts<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Wilson Oluoha Prize will be awarded to three national winners selected from the <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2025\/National_winners\"><strong>Wiki Loves Africa National Winners Page<\/strong><\/a> by the Wiki In Africa team.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1st Prize<\/strong> : $500 USD<\/li>\n<li><strong>2nd Prize<\/strong> : $350 USD<\/li>\n<li><strong>3rd Prize<\/strong> : $150 USD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prizes may be awarded to photographs, videos or audio entries. However, <strong>only National Prize winners that have been uploaded to the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2025\/National_winners\"><strong>Wiki Loves Africa National Winners Page<\/strong><\/a><strong> will qualify.<\/strong> Wikimedian communities have until the <strong>Friday, 22 August 2025 <\/strong>to upload National Winners to the page in order to be considered\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the 2025 Wilson Oluoha Prize will be announced at Wiki Indaba in November\u2014separately from the International Winners*\u2014as part of a campaign to bring attention to the incredible contributions of African Wikimedians in making Wiki Loves Africa a success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">*International Winners were announced at Wikimania <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Wilson Oluoha presenting a training on Wikipedia to students at Baze University in Nigeria.Image Credit: File:Baze University \u2013 Introduction to Wikipedia 03.jpg OtuNwachinemere, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Wiki In Africa is thrilled to announce the 2025 prize will celebrate regional communities!\u00a0 The Wilson Olouha Prize honours the contribution of our [\u2026] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/announcing-the-focus-of-the-inaugural-wilson-oluoha-prize\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Announcing the focus of the inaugural Wilson Oluoha Prize!<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7125,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,56,1,109,57,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-photography","category-uncategorised","category-video","category-wiki-loves-africa","category-wla-news-fr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikilovesafrica.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}