Commons:Wiki Loves Africa
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Wiki Loves Africa is a annual public contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wiki Loves Africa particularly encourages participants to contribute media that illustrate a specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes and could include any universal, visually rich and culturally specific topic (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc).
The project is run across the whole continent, however, some specific actions (training, communication etc.) are held in some countries with national organisers.
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Editions[edit]
- Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2017, the contest in October-November 2017 around the theme of people at work (images)
- Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2016, the contest in December 2016-January 2017 around the theme of music and dance (images)
- Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2015, the contest in October-November 2015 around the theme of fashion and adornment (images)
- Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2014, the contest in October-November 2014 around the theme of cuisine (images)
Winning pictures in former editions[edit]
2017: People at Work[edit]
Wiki Loves Africa 2017 Winners
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1st Prize: Gift of the Ocean, Tanzania by User:Yann Macherez
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2nd Prize: The girls of Mogadishu are heading back to the beach in Somaliland by User:Marco Gualazzini
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3rd Prize: Traditional goat herders in Egypt by User:Hassanelsayadd
- Women at Work : Zanzibar seaweeds in Tanzania by user:Rachelclarareed
- Rare or threatened traditional ways of working : The making of thatch in Nigeria by user:Eric Atie
Organizer price to : Glass in Swaziland photo essay by user:Bentaylor13413, in particular
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Here we have a team of glass blowers creating wine glasses. As it passes through the various team members the wine glass becomes apparent.
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Glass blowing a large terrarium
2016: Music and Dance[edit]
Wiki Loves Africa 2016 Winners
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1st Prize: The Kuru Dance Festival at Dqae Qare Lodge, Botswana by SanDanceVR
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2nd Prize: A pot and drum seller on his way to work in Rwanda by Tuyizere Nkinzingabo Jean Pierre
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3rd Prize: Kiduku dance in Tanzania by Rasheedhrasheed
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The 4th Prize (Organisers Prize): Nubian Flute Player by Ahmed Emad H (Egypt)
2015: Cultural Fashion and Adornment[edit]
Wiki Loves Africa 2015/Winners
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Another busy afternoon in Kenya by Isaac Kaigi
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Fashion designer in St Louis in Senegal by Lucas Takerkart, from France
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Lady in Gele, an african head dress in Ghana by Dili Osuhor
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Women in haïk at the port of Algiers, Algeria
by Mustapha Brahim Djelloul, uploaded by and slightly fixed by The Photographer
2014: Cuisine[edit]
Wiki Loves Africa 2014/Winners
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Nutmeg by Terrence Coombes from Tanzania
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Egyptian grains by Dina Said Eid, from Egypt
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Girls cleaning coffee by Natnael Tadele, from Ethiopia
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Sudanese woman making the traditional baking called "Kisra,
by User:Alfateh2005 (Mohamed Elfatih Hamadien), from Sudan
Supported by[edit]
Wiki Loves Africa is activated by the Wikimedia community. The competition was conceptualised by Florence Devouard (Anthere) and Isla Haddow-Flood as a fun and engaging way to rebalance the lack of visual representations and relevant content that exists about Africa on Wikipedia and support the WikiAfrica movement.
The 2017 competition is supported by Ynternet.org. It is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and local partners in individual countries.
Content and events were participants or organizations in : Wikimedia Algeria, Ivory Coast UserGroup, Cameroon, Wikimedia Tunisie, Wikimedia Egypt, m:Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, Open Foundation West Africa, Malawi, Mali, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
In 2017, the competition is also supported by Unesco, through its programme Unite4Heritage! [1]
The 2016 competition is supported by Ynternet.org. It is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and local partners in individual countries.
Content and events were participants or organizations in : Tanzania, Ivory Coast UserGroup, Wikimedia Tunisie, Wikimedia Egypt, Wikimedia Algeria, Cameroon, Uganda, m:Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, Ghana User Group, Zimbabwe.
In 2016, the competition is also supported by Unesco, through its programme Unite4Heritage ! [2]
In 2015, the competition was managed by Florence and Isla, supported by the Africa Centre and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and local partners in individual countries.
Content and events partners were participants or organizations in : Tanzania, Ivory Coast UserGroup, m:Wikimedia Tunisie, Wikimedia Egypt, Wikimedia Algeria, Cameroon, Uganda, m:Wikimedia User Group Nigeria.
For the 2014 competition, the project was managed by Florence and Isla, supported by the Africa Centre and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and the Orange Foundation and local partners in individual countries.
Content and events partners were participants or organizations in : Ivory Coast, Wikimedia Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana User Group, Malawi, m:Wikimedia South Africa, m:Wikimedia Tunisie, Uganda, Wikimedia Algeria.
