Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2020/Algeria

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: The entry deadline for Wiki Loves Africa has been extended to *15th APRIL 2020*. This is due to the global health crisis with all Wikimedia related events being cancelled. We urge people to stay at home and upload already existing images that are sitting on their hard drives at home. Remember that all images must relate to the Africa on the Move! theme. We will also be hosting a variety of ONLINE events and activities to ensure that you are all supported and can still enter. CHECK SOCIAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES #StayAtHome

Wiki loves Africa in Algeria[edit]

Wiki Loves Africa is an opportunity for us; To organise an events for all they have a photos of algeria around the theme of each year. it permit to increase the media content Creative commons of Algeria.

Algeria is an African country in first, she is the biggest country in Africa, algerian culture is a crossbreeding of berber, african, arabic, othoman and european etc...

especially that it's able to found this in the food, costumes, music and dance.

This contest is naturally destined for algeria.

Why we want to participate for this year[edit]

With simple search on wikipedia english or french even arabic we discover so small quantity of media in commons and almost 10 articles about Algeria on the Move or Transportation

articles are existent, but without audio or video, we plan to collect through this contest a best media quality and write some articles.

in the moment this media are uploaded at the wikimedia.commons servers this is our goal. after that; we have time to plan workshop to create a seeds of articles and why not best articles.

What Algerian prizes are up for grabs?[edit]

There are several prizes to be won, both nationally and internationally. For national prices, please see which events take place locally in your country. In Algeria, there are 3 main prizes for Wiki Loves Africa. vouchers will be distributed to winners when announcing results.

The National prizes are:

1st prize: 20 000.00 DZD
2nd prize: 10 000.00 DZD
3rd prize: 5 000.00 DZD

At the international level, there are 3 main prizes for Wiki Loves Africa, and as with last year, there will be two additional prize categories for photos and media.
The international prizes are:

1st prize: US$1000
2nd prize: US$800
3rd prize: US$500

Additional categories are:

Culturally specific or traditional representations of transport or structures that facilitate transportation : US$500
Prize for best quality video (audio and visual quality and storytelling will be taken into account): $500

Each winner will also receive a pack of goodies (proposed: a hat "I edit Wikipedia from Africa", a branded battery, stickers) >>> Read more about the rules here

see Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2020 for international contest

Our Team[edit]

Mohammed Bachounda ; principal
Ahmed Houamel

Jury Members[edit]

Members jury

Committee

The jury members will receive a gifts for their help in the selection process

The photos[edit]

The basic rules[edit]

Acceptable photos

All the photos proposed for the contest must have been taken by the participant himself.
Photos must either have been uploaded personally by the participant or uploaded during collective upload sessions held by local teams;
The upload will take place only between february 2020 and april 15 2020;
The proposed picture must be under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license CC-BY-SA 4.0 or any equivalent free license or be in the public domain;
To be eligible, the photos must be classified in the Wiki Loves Africa 2020 category. If the upload is done using the official tool (upload wizard), this identification will be made automatically;
The proposed picture are taken for the purpose of being used for educational, encyclopedic and / or cultural purposes;
In order to be contacted, the participant will have entered their e-mail address in their preferences on the Wikimedia Commons website;

Ineligible photos

Non-photographic work, such as computer generated drawings or images
Photographs already present on Commons (re-upload is not allowed)
Since the images will be hosted on Wikimedia Commons, they must respect the Commons scope.
Photos not respecting the rules of Wikimedia Commons will be disqualified and removed from the site without prior notice.
Photos with trademarks, watermarks or signatures will not be accepted.

Selection Criteria

The jury will select the photos based on the following criteria (in no particular order):

Technical quality
Originality
Useful and global potential value of images for Wikimedia projects (educational, encyclopedic and / or cultural needs)
The series