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Wikimedia Youth Commemorates the International Youth Day 2022 in an exciting way in the Philippines[edit]
The Wiki Advocates Philippines joined young people from around the world in a series of thrilling activities to commemorate the International Youth Day (IYD) 2022 in the Wikimedia movement. The International Youth Day 2022 was organized globally by the WikiVibrance Project, a youth-focused initiative, to celebrate young people's voices, actions, and initiatives as well as their meaningful engagement in the Wikimedia movement. The WikiVibrance Project recognizes that young Wikimedians are part of the about 1.8 billion young people taking action to solve pressing issues in different corners of the world today and as such should celebrate their presence and contributions in building free knowledge on Wikimedia projects.
As part of the exciting activities to mark the commemoration, we spotlighted Sheryl Jean B. Bengua and Daphne "Daph" Boncodin from the Philippines community alongside other young wikimedians from Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Sudan for their commitment in advancing open knowledge. The IYD 2022 coordinator in Philippines, Anthony Diaz shared inspiring stories of the work of Filipino young people with featured young wikimedians from South Sudan, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Ukraine, Kenya, Palestine, Spain, Nigeria, Philippines, and Uganda during a session on 13th August at the 2022 Wikimania conference.
In September 2022, young wikimedians from Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Philippines, Nigeria Benin, and South Sudan kickstarted a month-long campaign to improve content related to this year's IYD theme "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages on wikimedia projects. They focused on improving content on age-related diseases (eg diabetes, stroke, depression among others); youth and adult movements related to human rights; policies/laws/acts related to age discrimination in employment, healthcare; legal working & retirement age; youth exclusion; child labour; youth development; ageism as a whole; women and senior citizens in politics, health, employment sector; health risks posed by occupations taken by youths and senior citizens; child labor and rights; obstacles to employment or human right issues associated with Ageism among others.
Still in the spirit of the celebration, the spotlighted youth and lead organizer of IYD 2022 (Sheryl Jean B. Bengua, Daphne "Daph" Boncodin and Anthony Diaz) in Philippines will be joining a Winners Call (a social space call) on 30th September, 2022 to network with other recognized young people from the participating countries.
Through the International Youth Day 2022 activities, we hope to draw attention to the work of young wikimedians in the Philippines in growing knowledge on Wikimedia projects as well as their capacity on growing knowledge in the digital space. Recognizing the importance of this, we invite Filipino youth to join us on the WikiVibrance Project. You can follow the official social media handles @WikiVibrance on twitter, Instagram and Facebook to stay updated.
The WikiVibrance Project aims at acknowledging and celebrating young Wikimedians advancing open knowledge through community engagement during international, regional and national youth days in order to create synergies, share knowledge and build capacities to contribute content of selected thematic areas across Wikimedia projects.
The core team members are: Euphemia Uwandu, Francesc Fort, Douglas Ssebaggala, Eben Mlay, and James Popoola.
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