Commons:WLF20
Einführung in Wiki Liebt Festivals
Festivals are an expressive way to celebrate glorious or sorrowful heritage, culture and traditions. They are meant to celebrate or commemorate special moments and emotions in the lives of people. They play an important role to adding a structure to our social lives, and connect us with our families and backgrounds. For this reason Aristotle describes human beings as a “social animal”, because by our nature we build capacity to learn language, familiarise with cultures, enquire and think, play and work through social interaction with our fellow beings. This makes festivals a crucial part of the human race, irrespective of the location of its inhabitants, because festivals are the way of life of that group of people, folklore and tales from their ancestors are passed on and cultural heritage and history is preserved.
From Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Yam and Fire festivals of Nigeria and Ghana to the various carnivals in Brazil and St Patrick’s Day originally from Ireland, and many other festivals abound across the globe.
Albeit the importance of festivals, its coverage on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia is limited to stubs, many uncovered and many others lacking photos or videos to further tell the story or enrich the experience of the reader or seekers of such knowledge. Through this campaign we hope to improve the audiovisual contents of such subjects which will in turn inspire improvement of such articles from stubs, creation of entirely new articles or related photo documentary or essays about such festivals and help to properly illustrate articles that lack visuals.
This is important because not all GLAM content exist within GLAM institutions, some are found on our streets, homes, villages and places we often don't look to when talking about GLAM. However still important to share telling the complete story of a particular culture or people. In our bid to promote culture and heritage, we want to pilot this project in Ghana, covering the different types of festivals in Ghana. This will be done in partnership with Wikimedia SE that has expressed interest in organising a similar thing in their country.
How to participate
Prepare your photos of any festival celebrated in your country
Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikimedia Commons
Name your photos well
Use our Upload Button at the top OR Click here to upload as many as you can
Share your upload success on social media with our hashtags: #wlf #wlf2020.
And wait patiently for the results! All the best!
Participanting Countries
Please list your name, if interested in participating in this years maiden Wiki Loves Festivals, and if you are already involved in festival projects/contributions.
| N° | User | Wiki page / Affiliate | Country |
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| 1 | Abdallahbigboy | Wikimedia Community User Group Tchad |  Chad
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| 2 | RubyD-Brown | Open Foundation West Africa | 
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| 3 | Reda Kerbouche Zinou Yahoui |
Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group |  Algeria
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| 4 | Dumbassman | Wikimedia South Africa |  South Africa
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| 5 | KAG1LP2MDIAKITE | Wikimedians of Mali User Group |  Mali
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| 6 | |||
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Timeline
- Campaign Duration: 1 June, 2020 to 31 July, 2020
- Writing contest: 1st June to the 31st of July
- Photography contest: 1st July to 31st July
Project scope and activities
Photowalks and exploration:
Publishing:
Article creation/improvement:
Social media: