Wiki Loves Africa 2020/Illustrate Wikipedia articles
The full list of all images uploaded as part of Wiki Loves Africa in the past may be found at :Wiki Loves Africa All Images
HELP ILLUSTRATE WIKIPEDIA : EVERY YEAR, PHOTOS FROM THE CONTEST SHOULD ILLUSTRATE Wikipedia articles (*) !
Every year, thousands of images are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons database as part of the Wiki Loves Africa photo contest.
But not every picture makes it into Wikipedia... and to be fair, not all images should make it there. Only the best, only the most useful, the most intriguing. A picture should only be added when it improves an article.
Sometimes, a user will use an image to illustrate an article in a language... let's say English... but perhaps... it makes sense to also use that same image in the equivalent article in a different language !
The page below suggest additions of images to one source language to a target language. Check it out...
General stats and image reuse
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This graphic shows the status of the Wiki Loves Africa project from its inception till June 2020.
Source: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/africa.
There is no year 2018 due to a change of calendar. The first few years, the contest was held around October November, and was later moved around February and March. -
This screenshot has been picked up June 2020. Source: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/africa.
Notice how number of uploaders may differ widely (for a similar number of images uploaded, Benin had 44 participants when Ghana had 87).
Image reuse on Wikimedia projects also varies widely per country (for example, only a handful images from Ghana and Nigeria are reused on the projects, when 20-30% of images provided in most countries are displayed in a Wikipedia page.
For more details and figures for all countries as of June 2020, check out File:Wiki Loves Africa 2020 Country Stats.pdf.
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Pages views from WLA 2014 till May 2020: 134 000 000.
June 2020 Monthly page views: 4 100 000. -
Pages views from WLA 2015 till May 2020: 125 000 000.
June 2020 Monthly page views: 3 600 000 -
Pages views from WLA 2016 till May 2020: 71 000 000.
June 2020 Monthly page views: 2 700 000 -
Pages views from WLA 2017 till May 2020: 116 000 000.
June 2020 Monthly page views: 2 700 000 -
Pages views from WLA 2019 till May 2020: 14 000 000.
June 2020 Monthly page views: 1 670 000 -
Pages views from WLA 2020 till May 2020: 3 700 000.
June 2020 Monthly page views: 3 700 000
- All reuse of images in Wikipedia articles from Wiki Loves Africa 2014 -2015-2016-2017-2019-2020
Category c:category:Wiki Loves Africa All Images has 66011 files check mid June (Glamorous)
Category c:category:Wiki Loves Africa All Images has 63847 files check July 1st (Glamorous2. Seems legitimate)
Top sites with most reuse
Site | Distinct Images used June 12th 2020 |
Distinct Images used July 1st 2020 |
Distinct Images used Sept 4th 2020 |
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fr.wikipedia | 3918 | 3709 | |
en.wikipedia | 1646 | 1608 | |
ar.wikipedia | 474 | 429 | |
meta | 384 | ||
es.wikipedia | 373 | 375 | |
de.wikipedia | 362 | 407 | |
Wikidata | 287 | 280 | |
pt.wikipedia | 285 | 210 | |
it.wikipedia | 232 | 233 | |
Simple | 153 | ||
ru.wikipedia | 150 | 171 | |
fr.wikivoyage | 129 | ||
fr.wiktionary | 128 | ||
en.wikivoyage | 127 | ||
uk.wikipedia | 117 | ||
nl.wikipedia | 114 | ||
pl.wikipedia | 111 | ||
en.wikibooks | 99 | 169 | |
ca.wikipedia | 98 | ||
sw.wikipedia | 94 |
Total image usages 12625 (June 12th)
Total images usages 14275 (July 1st)
Distinct images used 7706 (11.67% of all images of category) (June 12th) (per Glamorous)
Distinct images used 7908 (12.3% of all images of category) (July 1st)(per Glamorous2)
Insert an image already used in one language wikipedia to another article in a different language wikipedia
editImages from Wiki Loves Africa have primarily been inserted into French speaking articles (though some of them are on the English wikipedia, the Arabic etc.).
When an image has been inserted into a wikipedia article in French, and an equivalent article exists in English, there are chances that the article used on the French article be interesting to illustrate the article in English (this can be said of all languages).
So the list below give suggestions of images used in one language, that could be added to another language. Pick up your choices and insert Wiki Loves Africa images into Wikipedia articles to help decolonize the encyclopedia ;)
This list needs to be updated manually. So when you inserted an image, considering removing or stricking the line of what has been done.
Participation to WPWP Campaign
editWhat is WPWP ?
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) is an annual campaign where Wikipedians across Wikipedia language projects and communities add photos to Wikipedia articles lacking images. It runs from July 1st 2020 till August 31st 2020.
Why WPWP ?
- This is to promote the use of digital media files collected from various photography contests, photowalks organized by the Wikimedia community, on Wikipedia article pages. Photos help to grasp the reader's attention better than a wall of text, illustrate content, and make the article more instructive and engaging for readers. Thousands of images have been donated and contributed to Wikipedia Commons via various advocacy programs, photowalks, and contests including international photography contests such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc. Yet relatively few of these photos have been used on Wikipedia articles. Today, the Wikimedia Commons hosts millions of photo images but only a tiny portion of these have been used on Wikipedia article pages. This is a huge gap that this project aims at bridging.
About Wiki Loves Africa participation to WPWP
- The Wiki Loves Africa team wants to participate to WPWP 2020 in the following way :
- We want to push for the insertion of images submitted as part of former Wiki Loves Africa photo contests into Wikipedia articles for the following languages : Igbo (ig), Swahili (sw), Yoruba (yo), Luganda (lg), Hausa (ha), Shona (sn), Amharic (am), Lingala (ln) and Afrikaans (af). The participant with the most quality insertion of images in any of those languages will be duly celebrated and offered a voucher of US 100.
List of suggestions to improve Igbo
edit105 suggestions on June 30th
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List of suggestions to improve Swahili
edit699 suggestions on Aug 6th
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List of suggestions to improve Yoruba
edit324 suggestions on June 30th
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List of suggestions to improve Luganda
edit96 suggestions on June 30th
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List of suggestions to improve Hausa
edit245 suggestions on June 30th
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List of suggestions to improve Shona
edit238 suggestions on June 30th
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List of suggestions to improve Amharic
edit230 suggestions on June 30th
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List of suggestions to improve Lingala
edit208 suggestions on June 30th
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List of suggestions to improve Afrikaans
edit532 suggestions on June 30th
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Below are suggested images from Wiki Loves Africa, some of which may be appropriate to add to the indicated articles on Wikipedia. |
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