Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Nigeria/Á̱ Na Nyia̱ Ni Wa Á̱ Shyia̱ Nwuo
How to participate in Wiki Loves Africa: general steps
1. Take photos!
This is the fun part! You can enter media (photos, video clips or audio files) that visually or sonically represent the theme. Think of rare and unusual ways of looking at the theme items we might take for granted around us.
For tips and trick in how to take a good quality image for Commons, take a look at these guidelines:
- You will find some basic photography tips here.
- These tutorial in English provide guidelines on how to take pictures for Wikimedia Commons
- Here are some more image guidelines
- And the best file formats to use for image, video and sound, to be uploaded on Commons
- en Francais: Atelier photographique
2. Select the best!
Your media could go onto Wikipedia to illustrate an article. Choose photos and media where the subject matter is clear and in focus. Please do not select dozen of near identical pictures of the same topic!
3. Register on Commons
You have to be registered on Wikimedia Commons to enter the competition and upload a photo or any media. Make sure your email is enabled so that we can contact you if you are a winner! Read Commons:First steps/Account for more information.
4. Enter your photos!
Enter your photographs using this link to go directly to the upload page. Remember to describe the photo and add relevant categories to the image. NOTE: to be eligible for national prizes please make sure you use the dropdown in the upload wizard to select the country the image was taken in.
5. Yihwa bwat ma̱nini?
Ma̱ninika nang ri̱jista mi̱ Wukipedia a̱ni, fwuong a̱sainfwuo hu na si̱ nfwan a̱ja bah!! Á̱ mbyia̱ nkyang ma̱ a̱di̱di̱t nang a ni̱ maai nyia̱ a̱ni:
- Zop tazwa jhyet mi̱ Commons mami tyutoriat huni.
- Kwok a̱ka̱sham nghwughwu á̱ghyang a kpa̱t nna!
- Wa̱i nghwughwu na ansham ku a ntyei nghwughwu ang na ma̱ a̱yaati̱kut na̱ myim a̱ni mi̱ Wukipedia da̱ a̱lyem ang ka. A̱jhyem webinar tazwa a̱pyia̱ a̱lyiat ka
- Ka̱nang a li nyia̱ a̱pyia̱ a̱lyiat a̱kya nang a cat ba̱t a̱ni ka̱n shyia̱ Wukipedia bah, a bye lyuut ati̱kut tazwa a̱pyia̱ a̱lyiat a̱kya.
- Á̱ mbyia̱ a̱yaayangka̱nan nghwughwu á̱ghyang ba̱ jhyet Wukipedia a̱ni - nwuak a̱cucuk nyia̱ a shyia̱ nwuo! Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Folklore, ba̱ng si̱ nat.
Si̱sak nang á̱ neap nghwughwu-a̱guguut ma̱ Wukimedia Commons
Ma̱nang á̱nietnta̱m ba di̱ njen ma̱ a̱di̱di̱t nkpa̱t nghwughwu nia, á̱ mun saai a̱yaafail a̱ghyang, nang nwunwuat ma̱ng nghwughwu-a̱guguut.
Ka̱ nghwughwu-a̱guguut nia, sa̱kut neap a̱yaafail da̱ a̱yaafomat bani bya ma̱nyin:
- .ogg
- .ogv
- .webm
Mat si̱sak nang a̱ka̱wat nzwa shisha̱u na mi̱ ndi kace a̱ni, Wukimedia Commons si̱ mi̱n san ghwughwu-a̱guguut nang á̱ neap di̱ kuzang fomat ghyang a̱ni bah.
It is recommended by the Wiki Loves Africa team that you used an off-Wiki conversion tool, such as Handbrake to convert your file to either a .webm format, before uploading the video using the Upload Wizard. It is suggested that you upload video content one video at a time.
For more information, there is a helpful how to guide on how to convert video media into these formats can be found here on Wikimedia.
IF you use one of the Wikimedia-based conversion tools, such as Video2commons, then a separate upload process (separate from the upload wizard) is used. If this is the case, you MUST include these two categories when you enter the file details during the process. The two categories are Videos from Wiki Loves Africa 2022 and Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2022 in [your country] otherwise we won't know that you have uploaded them!
A tool can help you to edit videos: VideoCutTool: https://videocuttool.wmflabs.org/
VideoCutTool helps users to edit videos in commons and also converts MP4 videos on the user's device to Wikimedia Commons accepted formats. VideoCutTool is also available as a gadget in Wikimedia Commons, You can turn it on from Preferences -> Gadgets -> Check on VideoCutTool -> Save! (i.e WebM/OGV) and upload/re-upload them to Commons on-the-fly [1].
Other interesting tips
Vak nkhai lasi̱n mat ghwughwu ang hu a?
When you upload an image from the contest page, the CC BY SA 4.0 license will be automatically applied. If you want to choose another license, consider reading Commons:First steps/License selection for more insight.
Si̱sak nang á̱ na nkpa̱t nghwughwu ma̱ a̱di̱di̱t da̱ a̱ka̱nyiung a?
Kyangta̱m gba̱mgbam ku myim a̱ni huhwa yet Pattypan. Nwuan Commons:Pattypan a li.
How to contact the OTRS team to give license permission?
After you upload a picture, you may be contacted by a commonist who will ask you to submit an OTRS ticket, which is essentially sending an email to document the fact you are the author of this image. There is a tutorial to explain you how to do that: Category:When and how to contact OTRS (video tutorial)
How to join a webinar?
Check out this page for available webinars m:Wiki Loves Africa 2021/Meetings
How to attribute a picture?
En Français, ce poster peut vous être utile: File:CC CF2 Attribution Poster FR.pdf
How to add categories to your picture?
You might consider reading this page : Commons:Categories
Nkyang jhyang nang a na maai a nyia̱
How to participate to local events?
There are online and in-person events happening in the major cities of countries across Africa. Please watch the social media channels for news about what is happening near you! Contact the teams!
How to play on ISA?
ISA is a fun, multilingual, mobile-first 'microcontributions' tool, that makes it easy for (groups of inexperienced) people to add structured data to images on Wikimedia Commons.
With ISA, you can choose a pre-defined set of images on Commons and then ask contributors to 'tag' these with multilingual structured metadata. Points are counted for each contribution, and therefore it is possible to organize 'tagging' or microcontributions competitions or challenges with ISA. More info on the Commons:ISA Tool.
You may look around and participate to one of the campaigns currently opened : https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns
Additionally, a drive is organized every year (around September-December) to improve the description of all images collected during the previous Wiki Loves Africa.Check out Commons:ISA Tool/Wiki Loves Africa MetaData Weeks.
How to nominate a picture for featured pictures?
Featured picture candidates are images that the community will vote on, to determine whether or not they will be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. This page lists the candidates to become featured pictures. The picture of the day images are selected from featured pictures. Check out: Commons:Featured picture candidates.
Nwuan lyulyoot a̱mgba̱m nghwughwu nang á̱ ku kpa̱t mi̱ ndyia̱ na̱ ku swak a̱ni: Category:Wiki Loves Africa All Images
Tyia̱ ghwughwu mami ati̱kut Wukipedia
A bye cat ati̱kut gu sang ghwughwu a̱ni. A na maai a nyia̱ a̱nia di̱n vak PetScan.
Á̱ na maai á̱ nyia̱ ta̱m ma̱ng PetScan á̱ cat a̱yaati̱kut na̱ sang nghwughwu da̱ a̱lyem nang a cat a̱ni. Di nvak nang a na khwi a̱ni a̱tatak:
- Nat https://petscan.wmflabs.org
- Neet di̱ tab sa ji, a na maai a khai zwunzwuo-a̱muup a̱lyem ang ka (ar, en, fr, pt kidee)
- Khai sa a̱yaati̱kut di̱ Wuki a̱lyem kani. Kidee ja yet sa ji "Hospitals in Benin" mi̱ en:wiki
- Nyap tab "Page Property" ji, a si̱ khai "Lead image=No".
- Da̱ nyap Do it!.
Once this is done, the list of articles in that category with no photos would be generated.