Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Nigeria
Wiki Loves Africa is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute media related to that year's theme to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other WIkimedia projects. Wiki Loves Africa encourages participants to contribute media (photographs, video and audio) that illustrate the specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes. Each year's theme is chosen by the community to be a universal, visually-rich and culturally-specific topics (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc).. Everybody can participate.
This year, Nigeria participates again, and you are encouraged to submit any photos about Climate and Weather in Nigeria between 15th March and 30 April 2023. By submitting your photos to the competition, you share the climate beauty of Nigeria with the rest of the world to enjoy through the internet. We will explain below how to participate, what kind of pictures is eligible.
Participate
Find a climate and weather image, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons::
Find inspiration
There are different manifestations of climate and weather in the different regions of Nigeria. Find it around you!
Take photos
Make as many and as good photos as you can, try different angles. Even if your photo doesn't win a prize, it will still be useful for illustrating articles on Wikipedia and the other sister projects.
Describe them
Write down what you photographed. Record the site's name, the picture ID, description, and date of photo.
Upload to Commons
Upload your images to Wikimedia Commons between 15th March and 30th of April. Create an account, if you don't have one already.Contact us!
You may contact Wikimedia User Group Nigera, the coordinator of this contest in Nigeria via info@wikimedia.org.ng, or ayokanmi@wikimedia.org.ng. For technical or copyright related issue, contact Isaac@wikimedia.org.ng. For urgent response, leave a note here
Why participate?
Participate in Wiki Loves Africa, and help Wikipedia document climate and weather images.
Participating is fun! By photographing and sharing images of heritage nearby you, you can explore more about Nigeria heritage and learn about it. It's a nice challenge to improve your photography skills, and you can, of course, win some nice prizes. You stand a chance to win amazing national prize. The national jury will select up to 10 images that will represent Nigeria in the international finale. These images will compete for the international awards. More information about the international competition is available on www.wikilovesafrica.org .
You can also upload images that you may have taken already during one of your travels to the national competition of that country. Check if your travel destination participates in Wiki Loves Africa this year.
Competition rules
We try to keep the competition clean and simple to participate. There are only a few rules for photos to participate in the contest in Nigeria. Let's quickly go through them. Every submission should be:
- Self taken and self uploaded;
- Uploaded during March and April 2023;
- During the upload process, you give permission with a CC BY-SA licenseto re-use the image;
Next to that, there are a few practical rules:
- You should have an activated e-mail address on Wikimedia Commons;
- If the photo gets deleted for any reason, it is automatically disqualified from the competition;
- You are responsible for following the law while taking and uploading the photo.
In March, you may upload as many pictures (old or new) as you want of the climate and weather that you have documented. At the end of the 2 months, the national jury will evaluate the photographs and select the best 10 pictures in Nigeria to submit to represent in the international finale. The international jury will then announce the international winners in December.
Prizes
'1st: Photography Gadget voucher worth NGN100,000
2nd: Photography Gadget voucher worth NGN70,000
3rd: Photography Gadget voucher worth NGN50,000
...and many more for other winners
More about Nigeria's climate
All the entries included in the lists below will be considered as climate and weather pictures of Nigeria for the Photography contest.
The Jury
Our jury will process the images through two or three rounds during May. At the end of this process, the jury determines the top-10. If there are any doubts about the implementation of the rules, the jury decides.
Judging criteria
The jury will determine the winners of the international contest taking into the consideration the following criteria (in no particular order):
- Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective etc.);
- Originality;
- Usefulness of the image for Wikipedia.
Images that reach a top ranking of the international finale, will typically at least fulfill the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons. But feel free to submit many images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.
Statistics
Total images uploaded so far in
Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Nigeria
3,475
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