Commons talk:Wiki Loves Africa

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What's

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

what's the type for descript in wikiloves africa Dr.karam ouharou (talk) 12:54, 16 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Structured Data on Commons and Wiki Loves... campaigns: wishes for UploadWizard?

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (SDC) will become available this year. With SDC, Wikimedians can add data from Wikidata directly to files on Wikimedia Commons.

Benefits include multilinguality of Commons files (users can find and describe files on Commons in many languages), and machine-readable data with better APIs, that offer more advanced possibilities to build applications like Monumental.

In the not so far future, you will also be able to organize Wiki Loves... (Monuments, Earth, Africa, Art, Love, ...) campaigns on Wikimedia Commons with structured data. This is entirely optional, but maybe you are already interested in this!

In the course of 2019, the SDC development team wants to improve Wikimedia Commons' UploadWizard to support the campaigns that want to be powered by Structured Data 'new style'.

Do you have ideas and wishes for this? The team wants to hear which structured data features you want to see in UploadWizard, and we are now organizing a consultation about this over the next two weeks. This page gives more context, and links to where you can leave feedback. We're collecting this first round of input until April 17. Many thanks in advance for all your ideas! SandraF (WMF) (talk) 12:10, 4 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

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https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/10/30/an-interview-with-marco-gualazzini-the-winner-of-the-wiki-loves-africa-2019-photo-contest/

Global disease covid-19

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

May those who lost their loved ones due to this global desease be healed and never loose hope.May the world support our leaders by listening to them and stay at home. Motlatxo (talk) 21:07, 28 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Could we Internationalize WLA2021 contest main page?

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I took advantage and added translate tags to the main page for WLA2021: of course, the page is intended for applicants, and voters are also keen to watch what is going on (wow can’t wait to see files rolling in). While I am very far bodily from Africa, WLA is among the best source of joy and armchair journeys I find on Commons. Let’s share the bright hope together across readers/photo lovers across the oceans, shall we? --Omotecho (talk) 04:08, 19 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Anyone actually checking images?

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

all these "to check" cats, the oldest from 2015. is anyone checking? what needs to be checked? RZuo (talk) 16:52, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Upcoming Deployment of the CampaignEvents Extension

Latest comment: 4 months ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Apologies for cross-posting!

Dear WLA organizers and participants,

We have some good news for you! As potential interested stakeholders, we would like to share with you that the Connection Product team at the Wikimedia Foundation is enabling the CampaignEvents extension on Wikimedia Commons by the week of September 15th.

This extension is designed to simplify the management of community events, projects, and campaigns, such as yours! In addition to facilitating the discovery and participation of all contributors in these events. Once it's enabled on Wikimedia Commons, organizers will have access to features that will help communicate with participants, as well as plan, organize, and promote events/campaigns/projects on Wikimedia Commons, without having to rely on external platforms.

The features of the extension are:

Event Registration: A tool that helps organizers and participants manage event registration directly on the wiki.
Collaboration List: A global list of events and a local list of WikiProjects, accessible at Special:AllEvents.
Invitation List: A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on their past contributions.

For more information, please check the message shared on Wikimedia Commons’ Village Pump.

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to share them on the extension discussion page. We would love to hear from you before the rollout!

As organizers, if you want to know more about the extension or help us engage/use the features on Wikimedia Commons, and assist us creating an adoption strategy for the extension, please let us know either here, on the discussion page, or by contacting me directly via gfontenellewikimedia.org.

Thanks so much for your attention! GFontenelle (WMF) (talk) 20:07, 21 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Dear WLA organizers,

Good news! Following up with my last message, the Connection Product team has launched the CampaignEvents extension on Wikimedia Commons today.

More details are available on Commons:Event organizers. The features now available are:

Event Registration - A tool that helps organizers and participants manage event registration directly on Commons.
Collaboration List - A global list of events accessible at Special:AllEvents.
Invitation List - A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on their past contributions.

Please note the extension comes with a new user right. You will need to have this right to use Event Registration and Invitation List.

Regarding Invitation List, please be aware that this feature will not be as useful to Wikimedia Commons in its current form. However, it was made available so people can try it out and give suggestions to the team on how to improve it for Commons.

Let us know via the discussion page if you have any questions. I'm also working on an engagement plan for the extension. If you are an organizer and would like to collaborate or learn more, please reach me via gfontenelle

wikimedia.org.

Thank you! GFontenelle (WMF) (talk) 02:52, 19 September 2025 (UTC)Reply