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Wiki Loves Africa 2020

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This project page documents a project currently in progress.


Wiki Loves Africa in brief

 

Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute media that is relevant to their experience to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Loves Africa encourages participants to contribute media (photographs, video and audio) that illustrate the specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes and is chosen by the community from a few universal, visually rich and culturally specific topics (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc).

When
The project is a one-month competition which will happen around January-March 2020.

Theme
In 2020, the contest theme is... Transportation
In 2019, the contest theme was Play
In 2017, we worked on People at work.
In 2016, the chosen theme was Music and Dance.
In 2015 the theme focused on Wiki Loves Africa Cultural Fashion and Adornment.
In 2014 the theme was Wiki Loves Africa Cuisine.

Where
The project will be run at the entire african continent level. However, every year, specific actions (training, communication etc.) are held in some countries with national organisers.

Prizes
At the end of the contest, some national organizers host local ceremonies and prizes (some others do not). This is up to local teams to decide if they want to host ceremonies
In any cases, there is a global jury, and global selection of international winners (usually between 3 to 5), with prizes.
Last year prizes for the international winners were

  • 1st prize: US$1000
  • 2nd prize: US$800
  • 3rd prize: US$500
  • Women in Sport : US$500
  • Culturally specific or traditional formal forms of play, recreation or events : US$500

2020 prizes to be announced

How to join

The call for pictures and the contest will run in ALL African countries and beyond. The contest is open for all africans, diapora, and actually anyone interested and willing to help ! Regardless of whether you are African or not, you are welcome to join!

To get more info, please join the WLA Facebook group for organizers

Here are some examples of the things you may do for a start:

  • Let other people know about the contest. Your local community can include local Wikip/medians and aligned Open Movement members (enthusiasts from Creative Commons, Open Street Map, Open Data, OER, etc.). Relevant links to provide include
  • Fix pages on meta or Commons (improve the text, fix typos, translate...)
  • Help us to translate the Site Notice into those languages (as well as other relevant texts)
  • Help select the jury: suggest judges who might be interested in taking part in the international contest (perhaps a locally celebrated photographer, fashion designer, filmmaker or journalist). Volunteer yourself!
  • Participate in writing press releases: Help on crafting a press release template, adapt it, and send it out to your media contacts. Write blogs.
  • Help categorize and clean up uploaded photos on Commons during the contest
  • Help use images and videos in relevant Wikipedia articles

Userbox : {{User WLA organizer}}

Participating countries

Every year, some national teams do organize local actions in their country to support the photo contest. Typically, those can be

  • photo-hunt
  • training sessions to learn how to edit Wikimedia Commons
  • Upload parties (of pictures collected during photo-hunts) onto Commons
  • Edit-a-thon (to integrate images into wikipedia articles)
  • Press conferences
  • Ceremonies to celebrate winners
  • etc.

It should be outlined that not all of those actions need to be done ! When the team is only two individuals, the local activities will be less than when the team is made of 20 individuals. Every little bit help and no team should feel pressured to organize many events. Do what you can do and are happy to do.

Wiki Loves Africa 2020

If you intend to host specific events and lead local actions IN 2020, please list your chapter, your user group, or your name+country below

  1.   Algeria - Contact: bachounda (rapid grant)
  2.   Wikimedia Guinée - Contact: Aboubacarkhoraa
  3.   Bénin - Contact: Fawaz TAIROU
  4.   Côte d'Ivoire - Contact Mouahé
  5. Sudan ola.mahadi
  6.   Chad - Contact: Yasmine Djibril Ahmat
  7.   Botswana - Contact: Shoodho
  8.   Cameroon - Contact: Geugeor (rapid grant)
  9.   Mali - Contact: KAG1LP2MDIAKITE (rapid grant)
  10.   Sénégal - Contact: mouha.ibs (rapid grant)
  11. please add your name and country

Former years for references (do not add here, add above please)

  1.   Angola - Contact: Contreiras45 / DarwIn
  2.   Chad - Contact: Abdallahbigboy (rapid grant done)
  3.   Guinea-Bissau - Contact: DarwIn / Danilo Pereira Vaz (in Bissau)
  4.   Senegal- Contact Mouha.ibs (rapid grant)
  5.   Libya- Contact Mounir Touzri
  6.   Zambia - Contact Isaac Kanguya (rapid grant)
  7.   Ghana- Contact Felix Nartey / Joy Agyepong
  8.   Uganda- Contact Alice Kibombo (rapid grant)
  9.   Nigeria - Contact Sam/Jamie Tubers (rapid grant)
  10.   Wikimedia Tunisia - Contact Habib Mhenni / Nasreddine Nas'h
  11.   South Africa - Contact: A3_Baard
  12.   Tanzania- Contact Jadnapac

Done

  1.   Guinée - Contact: Aboubacarkhoraa (rapid grant)
  2.   Cameroon - Contact: Geugeor (rapid grant)
  3.   Bénin - Contact: Fawaz TAIROU (rapid grant)
  4.   Côte d'Ivoire - Contact Mouahé
  5.   Mali - Contact: KAG1LP2MDIAKITE (rapid grant)
  6. Botswana - Contact : Mompati Dikunwane (rapid grant)


Guidelines for Participating Countries

Below are some actions to consider working on with your team. We really look forward to working with you on this project and getting some great results! May the best photo/video/audio win!

Here is some examples of the things you may do for a start:

  • Let your community know about the contest. Your local community can include local Wikip/medians and aligned Open Movement members (enthusiasts from Creative Commons, Open Street Map, Open Data, OER, etc.). Relevant links to provide include WLA on Meta, WLA on Commons, WLA on Twitter and WLA on Facebook, and a Facebook group for organizers.
  • Think about the events, meet ups and training sessions that you can do with your community during the contest. Make sure everyone knows about it.
  • Look for local partners: groups who might be key partners in spreading the word or hosting events.
  • If you are interested in hosting events around the project then and need funding before the 15th of December 2020, submit a rapid grant Suggested guidelines are here.
  • Join the African mailing list [1] (WLAf does not have a specific mailing list)
  • Get together a list of media contacts in your country that you think will be interested in talking about the competition. Contact them. What about holding a press conference ? or sending them a press release ?
  • Help select the jury: suggest judges who might be interested in taking part in the international contest (perhaps a locally celebrated photographer, chef, filmmaker or journalist) .
  • Decide on whether you wish to host a national round of judging and prizes - if you do, you will need to organise the judges and the prizes.
  • Facebook has been set up - https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica - please like this page - we will repost your info.
  • Twitter has been set up - http://twitter.com/WikiLovesAfrica - please follow and link your tweets about the competition to our handle.
  • other suggestions ?

Communications Materials

Wiki Loves Africa will run for the 6th time in 2020. Along the years, a lot of material has been created and is available for organisers to use and adapt as they see fit. Or you might prefer to create your own material. Stay tuned on this page for further information posted soon.

Some examples of generic material listed below (this list probably needs to be updated)

  •  
    The English version of the A5 Generic Flyer
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    The French A5 version of the generic flyer
  •  
    Square, Round and Rectangular stickers
  •  
    The pull-up banner template with space for local organisers and partners logos.
  •  
    The generic t-shirt design elements
  •  
    An A2 poster in English detailing 5 years of the Wiki Loves Africa photographic contest
  • Wiki Loves Africa theme video in 2019
  •  
    The English version of the A5 flyer
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    this is a beanie to be used as a goodie for participant or winner
  •  
    example of "I edit wikipedia from Africa" cap. Also shows a branded battery (not WLA)
  •  
    other ressources
  •  
    5 years poster

The team

See c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2019/Team (to be updated)
To see what tasks each person has signed up to, see here Wiki Loves Africa 2020/International Organising Committee Activities

Funding for wikimedians groups and individuals

You may consider asking for a rapid grant from Wikimedia Foundation for 2020.

Please submit your funding request at Grants:Project/Rapid before December 15th 2019. If this is your first rapid grant, we strongly advise to submit it on Dec 1st...


Get inspired by previous requests

  1. Guinée : Grants:Project/Rapid/Aboubacarkhoraa/Wiki Loves Africa en Guinée (en français)
  2. Uganda : Grants:Project/Rapid/WCUG UG/Wiki Loves Africa Uganda 2019; Wiki Loves Africa 2017/Uganda; Wiki Loves Africa 2016/Uganda
  3. Tanzania : Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Tanzania; Wiki Loves Africa 2017/Tanzania ; Wiki Loves Africa 2016/Tanzania
  4. Ethiopia Wiki Loves Africa 2017/Ethiopia
  5. Nigeria : Grants:Project/Rapid/Jamie Tubers/Wiki Loves Africa 2019 in Nigeria; Grants:Project/Rapid/Jamie Tubers/Wiki Loves Africa 2017 in Nigeria
  6. Cameroun : Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group/Wiki Loves Africa 2017 in Cameroon
  7. Côte d'Ivoire : Grants:Project/Rapid/Mouahé/Wiki Loves Africa 2017 in Côte d'Ivoire
  8. Ghana : Rapid Grant in 2017
  9. Tunisia : Wiki Loves Africa 2017/Tunisia and Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia TN User Group/Wiki loves Africa 2017
  10. Egypt : Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia Egypt UG/Wiki Loves Africa (draft)
  11. Algeria : Grants:Project/Rapid/WikiDZ/Wiki Loves Africa 2019 in Algeria; Grants:Project/Rapid/WMDZ/Wiki loves Africa and Monuments
  12. Mali: Grants:Project/Rapid/NfanaMali/Wiki Loves Africa
  13. Sénégal : Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki Loves Africa Senegal 2019
  14. Bénin : Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki Loves Africa Benin 2019
  15. Zambia : Grants:Project/Rapid/Icem4k/Wiki Loves Africa Zambia

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