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Wiki Loves Africa 2023 Jury Report
Wiki Loves Africa 2023 Jury Report
Wiki Loves Africa 2023: Climate & Weather

Wiki Loves Africa is a photographic, video and audio contest.
The 2023 theme was Climate and Weather.
Entries submitted from 1st March until 30th April to Wikimedia Commons.
Prizes won by jury selected quality photographs!

CLOSED

 See the winners


Visually celebrate Africa on Wikipedia


Out of the millions of subjects you can read about on Wikipedia, those that relate to Africa have the least coverage. This is due to a number of reasons, but some are linked to the fact that many people do not know that they can have the knowledge of their continent and cultures reflected on Wikipedia by donating their images, videos and audio to Wikimedia.
The richness, diversity and beauty of Africa deserves to be visually celebrated on Wikipedia.
YOU can help to do this. Its super simple and everyone is welcome to participate!

What should YOU contribute? Pictures! Audio! Videos!


The theme Climate and Weather calls for the submission of visual representations of climate and weather.
>>Read more about the theme and get inspiration here.
Here are a few photos to inspire you below:

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2023 Contest Closed


5 easy steps to enter!

  1. Take photos related to the theme Climate & Weather
  2. Create a free account or log in on Wikimedia Commons.
  3. Consult our How to Enter page for useful advice on everything relating to the competition.
  4. Make sure you follow the rules of the competition (otherwise your image might not be eligible)!
  5. Upload your photos – from the 1st March 2023 onwards!


Important
Entered images or media must visually capture the theme as it applies to "Africa".
To be considered, entries must be submitted under a free license (read about licenses here).
Get your camera, take photos of your Africa!

 Read more about how to enter

What prizes can I win?

There are several prizes up for grabs for quality entries: both at a national and international level. For national prizes, see what local organisers have planned in your country.

At the international level, there are several main prize categories for Wiki Loves Africa + 2 additional prizes for the 2023 theme!

Wiki Loves Africa 2023 : International Prize Categories

Photography:

  • 1st Prize : USD 2,000
  • 2nd Prize : USD 1,500
  • 3rd Prize : USD 1,000

Media (Video, Audio, Graphics, Photo Essays):

  • Best audio prize : USD 750
  • Best Video prize : USD 1,000
  • Africa Environment Video Prize: Best video representation of the impact of climate change : USD 2,000
  • Africa Environment Special Collection Prize: Best collections of images showing the impact of climate change : USD 500


Disclaimer: Prize money may be dispensed in a gift card or voucher format

Selecting the Winners

The winners will not be selected until July 2023 and announced in August 2023. In the meanwhile,

 View 2022's Winning Images !


Important !

WRITE DZ FOR COUNTRY AND NOT ALGERIA TO FIND THE PHOTO IN THE CORRECT CATEGORY

The theme for the 2023 contest is Climate and Weather.

The 2023 competition Algeria starts, Upload your entries from 1st March until 30th April to Wikimedia Commons.

Wiki loves Africa in Algeria

The theme for Wiki Loves Africa Algeria 2023 is Climate and Weather.

Wiki Loves Africa Algeria is an opportunity for us; To organise an events for all they have a photos of algeria around the theme of each year. it permit to increase the media content Creative commons of Algeria.

Algeria is an African country in first, she is the biggest country in Africa, algerian culture is a crossbreeding of berber, african, arabic, othoman and european etc...

especially that it's able to found this in the food, costumes, music and dance, transport.

This contest is naturally destined for Algeria.

The 8th edition of Wiki Loves Africa in Algeria which is an annual continental photo contest held on the African continent to increase the number of visuals and audio visuals of African origin for use on various Wikimedia projects.

Why we want to participate for this year

With simple search on wikipedia english or french even arabic we discover so small quantity of media in commons and almost 10 articles about 2023 THEME: CLIMATE AND WEATHER

articles are existent, but without audio or video, we plan to collect through this contest a best media quality and write some articles.

in the moment this media are uploaded at the wikimedia.commons servers this is our goal. after that; we have time to plan workshop to create a seeds of articles and why not best articles.

What Algerian prizes are up for grabs?

There are several prizes to be won, both nationally and internationally. For national prices, please see which events take place locally in your country. In Algeria, there are 3 main prizes for Wiki Loves Africa. vouchers will be distributed to winners when announcing results.

The National prizes are:

 : 1st prize: TBD
 : 2nd prize: TBD
 : 3rd prize: TBD

The international prizes are:

>>> Read more about the rules here and see Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2023 for international contest

Our Team

Contact us!

You may contact the Algeria Wikimedia community User Group or follow them there

Jury Members

Members jury Committee

  • TBD

The basic local rules

Acceptable photos
  • All the photos proposed for the contest must have been taken by the participant himself.
  • Photos must either have been uploaded personally by the participant or uploaded during collective upload sessions held by local teams;
  • The upload will take place only between february 2023 and april 30 2023;
  • The proposed picture must be under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license CC-BY-SA 4.0 or any equivalent free license or be in the public domain;
  • To be eligible, the photos must be classified in the Wiki Loves Africa 2023 category. If the upload is done using the official tool (upload wizard), this identification will be made automatically;
  • The proposed picture are taken for the purpose of being used for educational, encyclopedic and / or cultural purposes;
  • In order to be contacted, the participant will have entered their e-mail address in their preferences on the Wikimedia Commons website;
Ineligible photos
  • Non-photographic work, such as computer generated drawings or images
  • Photographs already present on Commons (re-upload is not allowed)
  • Since the images will be hosted on Wikimedia Commons, they must respect the Commons scope.
  • Photos not respecting the rules of Wikimedia Commons will be disqualified and removed from the site without prior notice.
  • Photos with trademarks, watermarks or signatures will not be accepted.
Selection Criteria

The jury will select the photos based on the following criteria (in no particular order):

  • Technical quality
  • Originality
  • Useful and global potential value of images for Wikimedia projects (educational, encyclopedic and / or cultural needs)
  • The series

Wiki Loves Africa Image since started in Algeria