Commons:Wiki Loves Africa/WLA images under evaluation
This page is to centralize and track the work done to get Commons:Wiki Loves Africa images labelled on Wikimedia Commons
- as Featured pictures or
- as Quality images or
- as Valued images
Participants
[edit]Le lien du groupe télégramme ici https://t.me/+h1ILOmbwonk2Mzhk
Add your name and jump in !
- Anthere (talk) 10:36, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
- Adoscam (talk) 16:03, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
- Wilson (talk) 21:03, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
- Cca Raheem (talk) 14:10, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
- Kani Beat (talk) 14:15, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Labelled
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Featured pictures are images from highly skilled creators that the Wikimedia Commons community has chosen as some of the highest quality on the site. There are currently 21,826 of such images in the Commons repository which is roughly 0.015% of the available images (143,156,918). All featured images are entered into our annual Picture of the Year competition. You may wish to browse the profiles of individual photographers, illustrators, and restorationists within the Commons community who have contributed a large portion of our featured pictures.
- There are 36 Featured pictures related to Wiki Loves Africa as of September 2025 : [1] (on Commons and Wikipedia)
- And 25 featured on Commons itself : [2]
- Category:Featured pictures from Wiki Loves Africa (featured on Commons)

Quality images are diagrams or photographs that meet certain quality standards (which are mostly technical in nature) and are valuable for Wikimedia projects. Unlike featured pictures, quality images must be the work of Commons contributors; they need not be extraordinary or outstanding, but merely well-composed and generally well-executed. There are currently 451,005 images marked as Quality images, which is roughly 0.315% of the available images (143,156,918).
- There are 441 Quality pictures related to Wiki Loves Africa as of September 2025 [3]
- Category:Quality images from Wiki Loves Africa

Valued images are images which are considered especially valuable by the Commons community for use in online content within other Wikimedia projects. A valued image is considered to be the most valued illustration of its kind by the Commons community.
Nomination and evaluation
[edit]See Commons talk:Wiki Loves Africa/WLA images under evaluation
- Potential candidates for nomination for quality [4]
Submit a proposition
[edit]- Quality
- Commons:Quality images for info and guidelines
- Check out current nominations ! [5]
- Submit an image : Commons:Quality images candidates
- Commons:Quality images candidates/candidate list
Ideas
- Featured
- Check out current nominations ! [6]
- Submit a picture : Commons:Featured picture candidates (read guidelines first)
- Valued
Ideas to dig in to submit candidates
[edit]- Category:Best videos from Wiki Loves Africa
- Category:Best images from Wiki Loves Africa
- Category:Best images from Wiki Loves Africa 2021
- Category:Best images from Wiki Loves Africa 2020
- Category:Best images from Wiki Loves Africa 2019
- Category:Best images from Wiki Loves Africa 2017
- Category:Best images from Wiki Loves Africa 2016
- Category:Best Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2015
- Category:Best Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2014
- Category:Selection from Wiki Loves Africa 2020 in Algeria
- Winners
Media of the day on Wikimedia Commons
[edit]We had 11 entries who were media of the day [7]
- 04 June 2022 : File:Dream Home Wiki Loves Africa 2022 By Green Wilfred Somoni.webm (from Wiki Loves Africa 2022)
- 07 June 2022 : File:Street Vendors of Cairo (Full).webm (from Wiki Loves Africa 2020)
Picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons
[edit]We had 4 entries who were pictures of the day [8]