Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2024 in EduWiki Nigeria
Wiki Loves Africa is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute media that relates to that year's theme to Wikimedia Commons) for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. 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).
You are encouraged to submit any photos of the theme Africa Creates in Nigeria between 1st March and 30th April 2024. By submitting your photos to the competition, you share Nigeria's creativity with the rest of the world to enjoy through the internet and allow visibility of your shots and your country.
Below are just some ideas to explore around the theme concept....
Participate
Find an Africa Creates image, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons::
Find inspiration
Take photos
Describe them
Upload to Commons
Team members
- Oby Ezeilo - Project Lead
- Bukky658 - Project Lead
Jury members
Members of the jury
- TBA
- Judging criteria
The jury will determine the winners of the international contest taking into 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.
Prizes
There are several prizes up for grabs, both nationally and internationally.
National level prizes
̽1st Prize: Photography Gadget voucher worth NGN150,000
̽2nd Prize: Photography Gadget voucher worth NGN100,000
3rd Prize: Photography Gadget voucher worth NGN50,000
International Prize Categories
Photography 1st Prize : USD 1000
2nd Prize : USD 900
3rd Prize : USD 800
Media (Video, Audio, Graphics, Photo Essays):
Audio prize : USD 800
Narrative video prize : USD 1,000
Reportage video prize : USD 1000
Clip video prize : USD 200
Jury Prize : USD 800
Statistics
Statistics
Total images uploaded so far in
Wiki Loves Africa 2024 in EduWiki Nigeria
50