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Documentation of Wiki In Africa's work process, story, and impact edit

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Wiki Loves Africa

Our ever growing photographic contest ...

Activities edit
The top 20 shortlist for Wiki Loves Africa competition under the 2022 theme, Home & Habitat.
  • 5 rounds of jury process:
    • The review of the initial 16,000+ images was by 36 Commonists and Wikimedians.
    • The subsequent rounds were reviewed by a jury of 12 members from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, United Kingdom, Canada, Uganda, Netherlands and France. The jury comprised a mix of professional photographers and experience Commonists, from Africa and internationally. This was the first year that previous winners were also invited to be on the jury. Wiki Loves Africa Jury and Jury process is documented on the Jury page
    • There was a shortlist of 20-images, and from that selection the final choices were made. The winning images and videos can be viewed in detail on the Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Winners page.
  • The Prizes have been awarded and the money transferred to award-winners.
Increased Communications coverage edit
Unexpected outcome edit
Community Feedback edit
 
Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Participants feedback Report

Both Organising Teams and Participants were consulted extensively about their experience of Wiki Loves Africa 2022 and suggestions as to what could be done to improve future editions. The feedback process is documented here:

    • Local organising teams were approached individually for feedback interviews.
    • Contest participants were encouraged to take a survey to share their impressions and experiences (report linked on the right).
  • In November, the Wiki Loves Africa theme for 2023 was announced as Climate & Weather.
Impact of 2022 contest edit
  • 32 Wikimedia communities participated hosting 37 in-person events
  • 16,064 media files, per Category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2022
  • 1,111 competitors entered from 53 countries
  • 72% of those competitors were new to Commons
  • The 2022 images have since been viewed 9,345,239 by December 2022 across 219 Wikimedia sites
  • Current usage of the images stands at 5.7% with 907 distinct images used
  • 6 training topics were covered in webinars (where possible in both English and French)
  • 12 Office Hours were hosted (6 in English and 6 in French)
Impact of Wiki Loves Africa over 9 years edit
  • Over 88,600 images have been entered by 9,269 competitors from up to 55 countries under a free licence (CC-BY-SA)
  • 1,23 billion views of Wiki Loves Africa images across 248 Wikimedia projects (since Jan 2017)
  • The total page views are of 14.1% or 12,277 media that have been submitted to the contest
  • The images entered to Wiki Loves Africa are viewed 27.7 million times each month (Dec 2022)
  • 32 Wikimedia communities in 24 countries have hosted over 337 participation events, information sessions and training workshops since 2014;
  • A 2017 Wiki Loves Africa’s image was awarded 3rd place, and a second was in the final selection of the 2021 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year.
  • A Wiki Loves Africa winning image was included in the Journeys Through Our Fragile Heritage exhibition at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris; and
  • Wiki Loves Africa’s ISA Tool won the Multimedia category at the WikiData Awards 2019.


Wiki Loves Women


Focus Group edit

Coaching and support within the 12 women Focus Group

  • 12 monthly Working Sessions and 24 bi-weekly office hours were organised during 2022
  • A feedback survey was compiled and filled out by Focus Group members. Feedback included:
    • “I love how the Focus Group has helped me connect with other African women and learn from them too.”
    • “It would be great if we could have more activities leading to contributions on Wiki projects. (wikipedia, wikidata wikiquote) throughout the year outside. sort of homeworks assignment, or challenges, so that we could put into practice some skills and work and exchange outside working sessions. It could be group work or individual work.”
    • “I would like to thank Wiki Loves women focus group organizers, they do all they can to keep going on, they provide constructive topics which are really necessary for us!”
  • Link to the page where we list and document our workshop meetings with the WLW focus group : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/Focus_Group/Events
  • Video of a workshop delivered by Sherry and Betty : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqTcbAMWaU
  • Video of a workshop on Wikidata hosted by Nassima Chahboun : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1hjjb5ukCU


Inspiring Open podcast edit

Inspiring Open was launched early 2022 and 16 episodes recorded over several months

  • Highest performing organic Inspiring Open post was (unsurprisingly) the launch of episode 2 with Maryana Iskandar (28 March). The post had an organic reach of 1,073, with 55 engagements, 28 reactions, 9 shares and 5 link clicks.
  • The launch of episode 4 with Dr Nken Osuigwe (18 May) was a very close second, with a slightly lower organic reach of 1,038, but with much higher engagement: 36 reactions, 8 comments and 10 shares.


ISA Drive: Tell Us About Her 2022 edit
  • 2814 images were included in the challenge
  • 29 people took part in the challenge
  • 7414 WikiData linked descriptions were added


SheSaid 2022 drive on Wikiquote edit
  • 14 language Wikiquotes were impacted by SheSaid 2022
  • 3,896 new articles were created, and 1,196 articles improved
  • The project impacted 5,092 Wikiquote profiles relating to women
  • 9 African communities held events:
  1. Nigeria
  2. Igbo Wikimedia UG, Nigeria
  3. Botswana
  4. Cape Town, South Africa
  5. Cameroun
  6. Rwanda
  7. Guinea
  8. Northern Nigeria
Impact of Wiki Loves Women over 3 years edit
  • More that 7721 new articles created or edited on wikiquote
  • 11 different communities participate in the #SheSaid campaign
  • 19 working sessions were hosted by the Focus Group members during which they had trainings about 19 differents topics
  • 33 office hours were hosted by the Focus Group members
  • 96 720 contributions through the ISA campaigns
  • 20 891 images described during the ISA challenges

WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique

The project has been running for 5 years already, managed this year by Florence with Afek’s support

Special elements to note for 2022


WikiAfrica Hour

WikiAfrica Hour is live and ongoing, with a monthly vodcast facilitated by Ceslause with the support of the whole team

  • Over 2022:
  • 11 episodes were hosted (22 since launch)
  • 39 guests participated (71 since launch)
  • 152 Wikimedia and Open movement related news items were shared to the larger community (228 since April 2021). All news can be viewed here.
  • 18,712 lifetime views of the WikiAfrica Hour meta page
  • There was a 45% increase in viewership (5,082 playlist views) across the Wiki In Africa YouTube channel and a 50% increase in subscribers.
  • Social media and Telegram channel campaigns for each episode. Examples: Facebook • Facebook • Twitter • Twitter


ISA Tool

This tool was launched in 2019. The ISA Tool was developed as a collaboration between Wiki In Africa, Histropedia and the team facilitating the Structured Data on Commons project.

2022 activities
  • During 2022, Wikimedia Sweden further supported the tool through a research project that aimed to create a fully functional crowdsourcing tool for the semi-automatic tagging of images on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Depicts Guidelines: Commons:Depiction guidelines were developed, with lengthy discussions with the community about their official adoption (still pending… and probably for a long time)
  • Wiki In Africa Campaigns during 2022 included:
  • Wiki Loves Africa Home and Habitat in Nov  : 15,912 images / 95,413 contributions by 48 users
  • Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons in Aug : 15470 images / 14718 contributions by 22 users Twitter
  • Tell Us About Her:Women in Architecture in March : 2814 images / 7414 contributions by 29 users
  • Online workshop held on Dec 12th :
  • the look, feel, and usability of the tool with the machine vision / metadata-to-concept enhancements in place.
  • the quality of the recommendations provided by the tool
  • Discussion regarding the depiction guidelines proposed
  • Overall use of ISA Tool:
    • 43 separate campaigns loaded
    • 351,081 images collated
    • 233 users participated
    • 171,679 WikiData linked descriptions added
Overall impact
  • In January 2023, the recorded impact of the ISA Tool since its launch in 2019 was:'
  • 1,667,304 images reviewed in
  • 225 campaigns with
  • 544,599 Wikidata descriptions and contributions by
  • 1,460 unique participants.


WikiFundi

The tool has been updated end of 2021. 2022 is mostly a time for promotion, hence the choice of links made to give an overview

Challenges encountered during 2022:

  • Negotiation with Kiwix association to keep the tool in the card shop (complex maintenance, hence costly)
  • Impossible to track download and usage
  • Prices of raspberry PIs increased a lot (electronic elements)


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