Wikimedia User Group Nigeria

Become a Member of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria! Are you passionate about free knowledge, open collaboration, and making an impact? Join Wikimedia User Group Nigeria and connect with a dynamic community of editors, researchers, and advocates dedicated to improving access to reliable information. 📌 Sign up here: wikimedia.org.ng/membership

For this year's World Football Day, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria is hosting an exclusive symposium to document and discuss the beautiful game with 2007 U-17 World Cup Winner, Lukman Abdulkarim (MON). Come learn about the blueprint of football excellence from someone who lived it on the world stage. Date: Friday, 29th May 2026 Time: 5:00 PM Meeting link: us06web.zoom.us/j/82086629878?…

🌙 Eid Mubarak to our amazing community! May this season bring peace, happiness, blessings, and meaningful moments with your loved ones. Thank you for continuing to grow the spirit of open knowledge and collaboration together. #eidmubarak

Yesterday’s Naija Office Hour was an absolute milestone! A massive thank you to the 100+ community members and open knowledge advocates who joined us to discuss global trends and shape the future of our movement. Thank you for showing up, sharing the word, and bringing your amazing energy! #naijaofficehour

Since kicking off our World Football Day program on May 5th, it’s been an incredible journey of growth and passion. Check out the video to see highlights from May 15th, where we hosted a unique day of elite sports training and storytelling with Katsina United FC and Katsina Academy! #worldfootballday #nigeriafootball #nigeria #wikimedianigeria

Join us today for the Naija Office Hour! This session's theme is the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan Engagement, your chance to share your voice, ask questions, and collaborate on what comes next. We have tailored spaces depending on how you want to participate: 📖 Readers Room – For those looking to explore, learn, and give feedback. ✍️ Contributors Room – For those ready to dive deep into editing and active collaboration. 🗓️ Date: Today, 22 May 2026 🕔 Time: 5:00 PM (WAT) 🔗 Register Here: w.wiki/NBxN

Ready for Africa in 90 Seconds? For this edition of #NaijaOfficeHour, we are hosting Sadik Shahadu—Co-founder of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group & digital language activist! 🚀 Register here to join w.wiki/NBxN Set your reminders! 🔔

🗓️ Save the date! Join the May Naija Office Hour for a dive into the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan with CEO Bernadette Meehan and General Counsel Stephen LaPorte. 🕒 Fri, May 22, 2026 | 5:00 PM WAT 🔗 Register: w.wiki/NBxN

The internet is changing fast. Between AI-generated content and new search habits, one thing is clear: human-verified, trusted facts matter more than ever. And in keeping the digital space fair and accurate, Nigeria needs a strong voice at the table. Join us in the next Naija Office Hour to unpack these global trends, see how they affect our community, and learn how you can step up as a digital leader. 🔗 Register Here: w.wiki/NBxN Date: 22nd May, 2026 Time: 5:00 PM (WAT) 📖 Read the full report here: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia…

🗓️ Save the date! Join the May Naija Office Hour for a dive into the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan with CEO Bernadette Meehan and General Counsel Stephen LaPorte. 🕒 Fri, May 22, 2026 | 5:00 PM WAT 🔗 Register: w.wiki/NBxN

Get ready to kick off World Football Day with a blend of action and advocacy! We’re teaming up with Katsina United FC & Katsina Academy for a unique day of sports and storytelling. From a live pitch training session to a collaborative edit-a-thon, we are documenting and preserving our local football legacy for the world to see. 📅 Date: May 15th, 2026

The journey has come to an inspiring close! The 2026 edition of Wiki Loves Africa in Nigeria officially came to an end on April 30, 2026 and what an incredible journey it has been! From March 1 to April 30, photographers, storytellers, and culture enthusiasts across the country came together to document Nigeria’s beauty, traditions, rituals, people, and everyday life through powerful visual storytelling. Each image tells a story. Each upload preserves a piece of our heritage. Together, we have built a remarkable visual archive that proudly reflects who we are as Nigerians. A very special thank you to all Wikimedia affiliates in Nigeria, community leaders, and local organizers for an outstanding campaign that resulted in over 14,000 images submitted from Nigeria alone. Your dedication, coordination and passion made this possible. We also celebrate and appreciate all contributors especially our top 5 contributors who consistently go above and beyond to ensure Nigeria remains strongly represented in the campaign. Your commitment and creativity are truly inspiring. To our amazing partners; including the various photography associations and creative communities that collaborated with us throughout this campaign, thank you for believing in the vision and supporting this movement to preserve African stories visually. As the campaign closes, we are now calling for volunteer jurors to help review the thousands of submitted images and help select the very best entries. If you are interested in serving as a juror, please fill out the application form here: [forms.gle/4Gq4dP7Qks56Yo…] Applications close on May 15, 2026. Stay tuned as winners will be announced by mid-June. Thank you for being part of this incredible journey!

PRESS RELEASE Wikimedia Nigeria Strengthens Partnership with Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (LASRAB) to Advance Digital Heritage Preservation and Oral Knowledge Documentation The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, registered as Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation, visited the LASRAB Director-General, Mr Rasak Olugbenga Amodu, to strengthen institutional collaboration for preserving and promoting Nigeria’s cultural heritage and public knowledge resources. The meeting allowed both institutions to deepen their partnership, review past achievements, launch new heritage initiatives, and discuss strategic cooperation for the year ahead. The Wikimedia Nigeria delegation formally presented audiovisual materials from the Nigeria Oral History Documentation Project to LASRAB for archival and educational use. Wikimedia Nigeria began the year committed to strengthening engagement with institutions, government agencies, cultural stakeholders, and international partners in the knowledge, heritage, education, and digital preservation ecosystem. Earlier, the organisation collaborated with the Swedish Embassy in Abuja on initiatives to improve the visibility of Nigerian women online through Wikimedia platforms. The visit to LASRAB marks another major step in expanding partnerships that support free knowledge, digital preservation, and cultural documentation in Nigeria. Representatives of Wikimedia Nigeria praised LASRAB’s efforts to preserve Lagos State’s archives and support heritage-focused Wikimedia initiatives. The team also commended the new Director-General’s leadership. The meeting revisited the 2024 collaboration between LASRAB and Wikimedia Nigeria on WikiHeritage. WikiHeritage is a global initiative using Wikimedia platforms, such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, to digitally preserve and promote cultural heritage. In Lagos, young professionals and volunteers received training in digital literacy, leadership, heritage documentation, and open knowledge tools. The project led to the creation and improvement of numerous digital content pieces about Lagos State, including heritage sites, festivals, historical cities, monuments, and traditional institutions, which collectively attracted thousands of online viewers worldwide. Seven WikiHeritage ambassadors specifically utilised archival materials and historical resources provided through the collaboration to develop and improve content relating to Lagos cultural heritage, festivals, kingship institutions, and historical narratives. The outstanding ambassadors and contributors were later recognised and rewarded at the Wikimedia Nigeria Community Distinguished Awards held in November 2025 for their exceptional contributions to digital heritage preservation and open knowledge development. During the meeting, Wikimedia Nigeria introduced the Nigeria Oral History and Indigenous Knowledge Documentation Initiative. This national project preserves indigenous languages, oral traditions, local histories, and cultural expressions through audiovisual documentation in native languages. The initiative has documented elements from over 250 Nigerian languages and cultures and continues to expand across the country. The team explained that the oral knowledge initiative has enabled researchers, documentarians, linguists, and volunteers to explore the richness, diversity, and intricacies of indigenous Nigerian traditions, including those found in some of the country’s most remote communities. Through field expeditions and interviews with local custodians of culture, oral historians, traditional rulers, storytellers, and community elders, the project seeks to safeguard knowledge systems at risk of disappearing. As part of the visit, Wikimedia Nigeria formally donated selected audiovisual documentation materials from the project to LASRAB for archival preservation, research access, and public educational presentation to visitors and researchers interested in Nigeria’s cultural heritage. Both organisations discussed strengthening collaboration with cultural institutions, libraries, museums, historians, filmmakers, researchers, and traditional institutions to support high-quality documentation of oral knowledge and digital heritage content. At the end of the meeting, Wikimedia Nigeria and LASRAB agreed to strengthen cooperation for the 2026 heritage and oral knowledge projects. They also decided to set up a joint framework to document, preserve, digitise, and share indigenous oral knowledge and cultural heritage materials from Lagos State and beyond. The partnership reinforces both institutions' shared commitment to ensuring that Nigeria’s rich history, traditions, indigenous knowledge systems, and cultural identity remain accessible and preserved for future generations through digital innovation and open knowledge platforms.

Official Launch of the World Football Day will take place today, Thursday 7th May 2026 Time: 8:00pm Venue: Zoom us06web.zoom.us/j/82393435133?…

Today, representatives from Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN) met with the Director General of the Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (LASRAB), Mr. Razaak Olugbenga Amodu, and his team to strengthen their ongoing strategic partnership. The visit centered on the official handover of digital assets from the Nigerian Oral History Documentation Project, a landmark initiative bridging traditional history and digital accessibility. WUGN submitted an inaugural collection of 76 high-quality videos to the state archives, the first in a continuous pipeline of submissions. These materials will be integrated into LASRAB's repository, preserving oral testimonies from Nigeria's communities for future generations. Both parties also discussed plans to co-organize the next phase of the project in direct partnership with LASRAB. Through this collaboration, linguistic diversity is documented, cultural traditions are preserved in their most authentic forms, and the Nigerian story continues to be told by Nigerians, in their own voices.

Final Reminder: Applications Close Soon! This is a last call for interested lecturers across Nigeria to apply for the Wiki In School 2026 program. If you’re passionate about empowering students with research, collaboration, and digital knowledge skills through Wikipedia, now is the time to take action. Deadline: May 6th, 2026 (Today) Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a transformative learning experience that connects academia with global knowledge sharing. Apply now and help shape the future of knowledge!

Happy Workers’ Day and Happy New Month! Wishing you a restful holiday and a brilliant May ahead. Here’s to the hard work that builds our nation and the new opportunities this month brings! #workersday #newmonth #wikimedia #wikipedia

Alameen.ng captures a striking moment from the Kanem-Bornu Cultural Summit 2026 — tradition in motion, heritage on horseback, and culture carried with pride. This is identity on display. This is history alive. 🔥✨ Alameen.ng, CC BY-SA 4.0 📸 Inspired? Wiki Loves Africa 2026 is still open in Nigeria till April 30th — share your own lens on our culture, rites, and rituals with the world! 🔗 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:W… #WikiLovesAfrica2026 #WikiLovesAfrica #RitesAndRituals #KanemBornu #NigerianCulture #WikimediaNigeria