Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2022/jury
Wiki Loves Africa’s Winner selection process
The Jury process for the Wiki Loves Africa competition is elaborate and complex, as with all international photographic competitions. The process is sectioned into the efforts that are explained below. Please note that there are two separate, unrelated judging elements 1. the national juries, and 2. the international jury. The national juries select images from their country categories to review and reward. The international jury process is entirely separate, with all images being reviewed, and a select few making the short list and final cut. We do not rely on the national teams or juries for their selections. This is intentional and due to the fact that not every country that contributes has a national team or jury process.
- Image Checking
- First, there is an initial effort during the competition timeframe and the month after to ensure that all images are categorised properly and are vetted for copyvios and other issues. This process is undertaken by a few dedicated and tireless Wikimedia Commons contributors who are incredible (thank you GuillaumeG, Anthere, Ceslause and Ji-Elle). You can see the range of the work at this year's Image checking page.
National jury process
National organising teams select their own juries. Guidance with regards to this process is supplied in the National Judging Charter, however the management and organisation - and final results - are entirely independent of the International team. You can view the national winners here.
International Jury process
This year’s jury was compiled and arranged by Isla Haddow-Flood, with Ceslause assisting. The process is conducted on Montage and has two specific sequential parts.
- First Review Team
- Once the images have all been checked, a call is put out to the Wiki Loves Africa organising community and on Wikimedia Commons for volunteers to do a first pass. As over 80% of contributors to the competition are new Wikimedians, a wide variety of images that are uploaded are not suitable or eligible for the contest. These range from not being relevant to the theme to selfies (we’ve had CVs and certificates uploaded!) and everything in between. The first review team this year amounted to 22 reviewers, the list is below.
- International Jury Team
- For the International Jury this year we have been cognisant of bringing together a team that honours the range of diversity that we value as a project. A balance was sought between several sometimes-conflicting criteria: Wikimedia Commons contributors and professionals, Africa-based and global, male or female. This year, we feel that the balance has been found. We are grateful to all the members, new and experienced, for bringing their expert eyes to choose the best of the best.
International jury
The international jury is a made up of professional photographers and committed Wikimedia Commons contributors. This year's jury was compiled and arranged by Isla Haddow-Flood, with Ceslause assisting.
| Juror | Biography |
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| Nadine Le Lirzin, France | Nadine Le Lirzin has been contributing to Wikimedia projects since April 2008. Mainly on the French version of Wikipedia (creation or correction of articles, addition of references or wikiification), with some modest incursions into other language versions of the encyclopedia, as well as Wikimedia Commons. Nadine is a board member of Wikimédia France, and she is also an amateur photographer. Nadine's Flickr channel can be found here |  |
| Uncle Bash007, Nigeria | Uncle Bash007 is a graduate of Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina. Studied B.sc Geography and currently MSc in Climatology. He is an avid photography hobbyist and entrepreneur with a year experience in professional photography. He believes photography is an art and an essential part of human culture, history, and civilization. He also loves editing Wikipedia and creating content for the free Encyclopedia. |  |
| Benoît Prieur, France | Benoît Prieur has been a Wikimedian for over 10 years. He loves contributing to Wikimedia Commons and taking a lot of photos :). Professionally he's a computer engineer and writes technical books about programming. | .jpg) |
| Michael Maggs, United Kingdom | Michael Maggs is a photographer, a former chair of Wikimedia UK and a former bureaucrat on Commons. In 2013 he set up the Wiki Loves Monuments contest in the UK, and led the UK efforts to 2019. Michael's contributions to Commons can be found here. |  |
| Miriam Nwosah, Nigeria | Miriam Nwosah is the Creative Director and Digital Marketer at Webizza Studio, a creative digital marketing agency which she founded in 2017. One of their notable works is a stop motion video advert for Bata Shoes. She's a self-taught graphics designer, photographer, videographer, website designer and visual artist. As an Ebonylife Creative Academy Alumni, she is a certified Art Director, her final project, a short film titled Monitoring Spirit, earned the highest number of awards including Best picture.
She holds a Master’s degree in International Business and Finance from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She worked in the corporate world for a couple of years, first as a financial analyst at UBS Investment Bank in New Jersey and then Equiniti Group in London before she returned to Nigeria and worked as an account officer at Kakatar Group. She is the founder of “We The Youths Africa”, a nonprofit organisation with a platform that supports African creatives for positive change. You can view some of her works here |
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| Musa Umar, Nigeria | Musa Umar is a graduate of mass communication degree from Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic. He's a co-founder of Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group. He's a photographer with mostly light skills and composure. He has more experience in in-depth pictures, action pictures and pictures that tell stories. He believes pictures tell stories better! |  |
| Otsile Moutswi, Botswana | Otsile Moutswi is a Business Computing graduate and a self taught videographer and a photographer based in Gaborone, Botswana. He has been a professional corporate and event photographer for over four years with the goal to capture moments that inspire and tell a story. During his years in the creative space, he has sharpened his technical and aesthetic skills and has come to love bringing smiles from people. You can find his work at Lensman Media on Facebook and Lensman Media on YouTube. | |
| Anas Adam, Nigeria | Anas Adam is an entrepreneur, expert photographer and a student of architectural technology from Kadpoly Affiliated to Ahmadu Bello University, He's a co-founder of Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group an administrator nn Hausa Wikipedia. He focuses on recording audio and snapping pictures to document Nigerian History and culture, especially Hausa Language and Northern Nigeria, as he believes that up to now Nigeria is not well documented. |  |
| David Brazier, Zimbabwe | In the early 1990’s David Brazier founded a small professional studio in Harare focusing on architectural, environmental and development assignments and worked as a stringer for Agence France Press in Harare. His architectural work has been published in the New York Times, the International Ove Arup Journal and the Architectural Review. His photos have been featured in the Zimbabwean Review journal, Revue Noire, the cover of TIME Magazine (Africa), National Geographic Africa, Claiming Landscapes, Warscapes, Ogogii magazine. View his work here: davidbrazier.photography | |
| Yazeed Kamaldien, South Africa | Yazeed Kamaldien is a a journalist who has worked in print, radio, television and documentary filmmaking. He has reported from various countries, including conflict zones such as Yemen, Sudan, Syria and the Gaza Strip. He is a founding member of the International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ) aimed at promoting accuracy and fairness in religion reporting. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa. |  |
| Bouba Kam's, Côte d'Ivoire | Aboubacar Kamaté is an Ivorian videographer and video director. He won the Best video quality prizes for Wiki Loves Africa 2020 and Wiki Loves Africa 2021. |  |
| Adrian Mwangi, Kenya | Adrian Mwangi is a student pursuing a degree in Computer Science at The United States International University – Africa. Currently in his final year of education, his greatest accomplishment has been launching a freelancing career in the IT field. With a natural proclivity for entrepreneurship, he has been able to lead a number of ventures that are still active today. |
First review 2022
This year, we again asked the community to participate in a clean up of the images submitted to Wiki Loves Africa 2022. The community members who participated were:
- Abzeerash001
- Actveso
- Adoscam
- Afek91
- Alvinategyeka
- Ampimd
- Anthere
- Bello Na'im
- Ceslause
- Chapelle musa
- Chikeme Chizurum
- Dnshitobu
- Ei'eke
- GATETE Pacifique
- Giseletuy
- Gnangarra
- Islahaddow
- Iwuala Lucy
- JadePhenom
- JuJo77
- Justine Msechu
- Kyakwera
- Leonard Kisuu
- Limewrite
- Lneruba
- Ngumenawe
- Ridzaina
- Rosine Igirimpuhwe
- Sadads
- Serieminou
- Shahadusadik
- Smithiek2
- Summering2018
- Viktoria Petite
- xibitgh
This First Review round is to reduce submitted images to a manageable number for a more in-depth selection by the international jury. The First Review Team chose yes (to keep) or no (to drop) each image assigned to them according to the following criteria:
- Images must be relevant to the theme.
- The obvious quality of the image - is it obviously blurred, pixellated, etc.
- The deletion of any selfies, very small images or blurred and unclear works.
Thank you so much for their work on this first round!