Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2020/Media
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Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) is an annual contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment on Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Loves Africa particularly encourages participants to contribute media that illustrate a specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes and could include any universal, visually rich and culturally specific topic (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc).
Theme for 2020 editThe theme for the 2014 photo contest was Cuisine. In 2015 it was Cultural Fashion and Adornment. In 2016 it was Music and Dance. In 2017 it was People at work and in 2019 it was Play!. The contest in 2020 is the sixth year of this proposed annual contest and the theme is Africa on the Move!. The theme Africa on the Move! encourages the submission of visual representations of movement, migration or transportation, whether local or regional, by path, road, sea, or air, self-propelled, or by animal, natural or mechanical means. Submissions could also capture the historical or contemporary structures that have been created to facilitate movement or the transportation of people, goods, or animals.  5 years of Wiki Loves Africa editWiki Loves Africa is an annual competition that crowdsources photographs, videos and recordings of Africa to form an open licenced archive of materials that tells the story of Africa on Wikipedia through the eyes of its people. Over the last 5 years, Wiki Loves Africa has achieved the following:
How the competition is organised editThe project is a on-month competition which will start on the 15th February 2020 and end on the 31st of March 2020. In the previous years, the contest lasted 2 months. The project will run across the entire continental. However, there are ten groups of Wikipedians that have volunteered to host specific actions (training, upload events, communications, etc.) in their countries. These countries are Algeria, Angola, Bénin,Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Guinée, Senegal, Libya, Zambia, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Tunisia, Mali, and Botswana. In addition, there are several groups of individuals within Africa, and Wikimedia groups outside Africa (such as Brazil) that are also involved. The project is a contest where, after the contest closes, the best media at the continental level are selected and prizes are awarded. An international jury will determine the best entries for the continental competition. Where there are local organising groups, they will decide to organise (or not) judging and local prizes for their country. Wiki Loves Africa was created and developed, and is managed by the principals at Wiki in Africa, it is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. Actions in each country are supported by the Wikimedia community in the form of Usergroups and volunteers across Africa. Winners and prizes editThere will be several winners. The international prizes are:
Additional categories are:
In addition, some countries will host national ceremonies and national prizes. Local teams can decide to award separate national prizes at their discretion. Please review the local events page to see what is happening where and what prizes are available at a local level. Press contacts per country editThis space aims to link press contacts where available. TO BE UPDATED:
Documents edit
Videos editPress releases edit
Marketing materials editTheme-based marketing material
Generic marketing material
Reports in the media editDuring the contest edit
International winners announcement edit
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