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Wiki Loves Africa is an 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.

Welcome to the Wikimedia Commons portal for Wiki Loves Africa!
WLA 2021 A4 Infographic updated.pdf


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.

Wiki Loves Africa has achieved much over 7 years:

  • 72,375 images donated by 9,277 submitters to the Commons under a free licence (CC-BY-SA);
  • Wiki Loves Africa images have been viewed 787 million times (Jan 2016 - Aug 2021) – each of those 787 million views has (for that individual reader) challenged the negative stereotypes and visual narratives that persist about Africa;
  • Wiki Loves Africa images are viewed between 23 million and 41 million times each month (depending on the month)
  • Wikimedia Communities in 24 African countries have hosted over 300 participation and training events;
  • The competition attracted high levels of new contributors, averaging 81% over the years;
  • A Wiki Loves Africa prize-winning image was included in The Journeys Through Our Fragile Heritage exhibition at UNESCO, Paris; and
  • Wiki Loves Africa’s ISA tool won the Multimedia category at the WikiData Awards 2019.

Editions

Wiki Loves Africa can refer to:

Winning pictures in former editions

2021: Health+Wellness

2020: Africa on the Move!

  • 1st prize winner: My Homeland by Mohamed Ahmed Yousry (Egypt) User:Myousry6666

  • 2nd prize winner: Bread delivery by bicycle by Abd Elhamid Fawzy Abd Elhamid Tahoun (Egypt) User:Abdo tahoon

  • 3rd prize winner: A Mess by Summer Kamal Eldeen Mohamed Farag  (Egypt) User:Summering2018

  • 4th traditional culture winner: Salt transport by a camel train in Ethiopia by Olivier Siret (France) User:LeFnake

  • Video Prize Winner: Le Transport Lagunaire à Abidjan (STL) réalisé par Bouba Kam’s by Aboubacar Kamaté (Côte d’Ivoire) User:Kamboo19. Link to video

2019: Play!

  • 1er prix / 1st prize: Yida refugee camp in South Sudanese territory by Marco Gualazzini from Italy

  • 2ème prix / 2nd prize: Peek-a-boo by Summer Farag from Egypt

  • 3ème prix / 3rd prize: Street football one of the most famous games in Africa and boys playing hard and showing their skills and how talent they are by Mohamed Hozyen Ahmed from Egypt

  • Women in Sport Prize / Prix Femmes et Sport: by Yvonne Youmbi from Cameroun

  • Culture and Tradition Prize / Prix Culture et tradition: Fantasia by Sofiane Mohammed Amri from Algeria

2017: People at Work

2016: Music and Dance

2015: Cultural Fashion and Adornment

2014: Cuisine

Supported by

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 2020 competition is hosted by wikiinafrica.org. It is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and local partners in individual countries.
Content and events were participants or organizations in : Wikimedia Algeria, Cameroon, Wikimedia Tunisie, m:Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, Open Foundation West Africa, Wikimedia Morocco, Mali, Uganda, Angola, Bénin, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Guinée, Sénégal, Libya, Botswana, and Zambia.

The 2019 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, m:Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, Open Foundation West Africa, Mali, Uganda, Angola, Bénin, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Guinée, Sénégal, Libya, Botswana, and Zambia.

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.

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See also

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