Wiki Loves Africa 2022 in South Africa
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Wiki Loves Africa is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute media that relates to that year's theme 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. Each year's theme is chosen by the community to be a 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).
You are encouraged to submit any photos of Home and Habitats in South Africa between 15th February and 15h April 2022. By submitting your photos to the competition, you share homes and habitats in South Africa with the rest of the world to enjoy through the internet.
Participate
Find home and habitats, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:
Find home and habitats in South Africa
Take photos
Describe them
Upload to Commons
Team members
- Mchuchushupai - Project Lead
- {{}} - Partnership
- DelightChipunza Support
Jury members
At the end of the month, the national jury will evaluate the photographs and select the best 10 pictures of the homes and habitat in South Africa to submit to represent in the international finale. The international jury will then announce the international winners in June 2022.
Members of the jury
- to be announced
- to be announced
- to be announced
- Judging criteria
The jury will determine the winners of the international contest taking into consideration the following criteria (in no particular order):
- Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective etc.);
- Originality;
- Usefulness of the image for Wikipedia.
Images that reach a top ranking of the international finale, will typically at least fulfill the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons. But feel free to submit many images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.
Prizes
There are several prizes up for grabs, both nationally and internationally.
At the international level, there are 5 main prizes for Wiki Loves Africa.
- 1st prize: US$1000
- 2nd prize: US$800
- 3rd prize: US$500
- Culturally specific or traditional representations of home: US$500
- Prize for best quality video: US$500
(Disclaimer: Prizes to be dispersed in a gift card or voucher format. Each winner will also receive a pack of goodies)
At the national level (South Africa) you stand a chance to win
- 1st Best Photograph Prize R1500
- 2nd National Prize R800
- 3rd Most Usable Photopraph on Wikipedia R1500
The Events
- Introduction Events
- Upload Events
- Walkathons/photowalks
Pictures of the events may be found here : Category:Wiki Loves Africa
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