Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2024 in the Igbo community
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
Contact us!
You may contact the Igbo Wikimedians User Group or follow us here
- Facebook : Wikimedia Igbo
- Twitterː Wikimedia Igbo
- Email : wikimediaigbo (a) gmail.com
Team members
- Ogalihillary - Project Lead
Jury members
Members of the jury
- 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.
Winning Photos and Video 2024
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Winner - Basket Making An Ancient Craft of Weaving Wonders.jpg
Photographer: Henry Ojonugwa -
1st Runner Up - Nigerian Local Hand-woven Floor Mat for Sitting and Sleeping.jpg
Photographer: BENJAMIN212 -
2nd Runner Up - Canoe making.png
Photographer: Albertoblaq -
3rd Runner Up - A Lady Making a Basket Used for Carrying Goods.jpg
Photographer: Frankincense Diala -
Best Video Submission - A Blacksmith at work.webm
Videographer : Dagentle
Prizes
There are several prizes up for grabs, both nationally and internationally.
Local prize category
Photography category
1st Prize: NGN70,000
2nd Prize: NGN50,000
3rd Prize: NGN40,000
4th Prize NGN25,000
Video prize NGN50,000
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
Winning Photos 2023
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Best Artwork Submission - Umbrellas on a mission
Artist : User:Albertoblaq
Statistics
Statistics
Total images uploaded so far in
Wiki Loves Africa 2024 in the Igbo community
413