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Voting 2024 theme

Background

The International organizing team for Wiki Loves Africa conducted a survey to determine what should be the theme for the 2024 (and perhaps 2025) iteration of the contest. Respondents provided feedback via a google form which was collected and analyzed and condensed into 4 theme ideas by the organizing team.

This current stage of the community collaborative process consists to a voting by members of the community, prospective participants and stakeholders to help us make a final decision on what should be the theme for Wiki Loves Africa 2024.

Rules
  • You must have an auto-confirmed account to vote. This is mandatory.
  • You may vote for several options.

2024 Theme options

Please note: after each proposed theme there is a section for constructive discussion as to the benefits or concerns around each theme. Please engage with the proposed themes and share your thoughts with regards to perceived practicality and challenges. Please make sure you sign your comments with 4 x ~’s.

You may use

  • {{s}} to indicate support
  • {{n}} to indicate neutrality
  • {{o}} to indicate opposition

Option A: Celebrate Africa

Competition scope: To include submissions of media that visualise the JOY, exuberance, and happiness that YOU find in the either the everyday or extraordinary aspects of living in Africa as Africans.
Submissions should be the visuals, sights and sounds that celebrate contemporary Africa, in all its forms, and that are unique to Africa. To focus on the positive and single moments, small and momentous, that keep us going. Visuals or media could be a moment captured or the elements, actions, activities, and events that Africans associate with displays of happiness, joy, celebrations, cultural or contemporary moments that show Africans involved in a celebratory activity and/or elements of the activity/event in itself. It can include everyday situations, landscapes, peoples, sport, wildlife, nature, cultural events. It should focus on contemporary Africa, and not be limited to, but can include cultural identities, rites, rituals and celebrations.



Option B: Industry and Commerce

Competition scope: To include submissions of media that illustrates Africa's buzzing formal and informal industrial sector, to include large and small scale manufacturing, processing, and resources. The scope also include the commerce spaces, street stalls and kiosks, markets and trade centers and locations, stock exchanges and shopping malls that distribute the goods of these industrial actions. The scope also includes manufacturing plants, machine tools, processes, materials, energy and water as well as environmental consequences of manufacturing activities. The theme may also include social, financial, and legal elements associated with commerce and industry (eg, negotiations of worker rights and wages, strikes, guilds, security boots, coins, trade routes etc.)


Option C: Africa Create

Competition scope: To include submissions of media that portray the process of creating, inventing, manufacturing culturally defined items, make-up, art, hairstyles, music, dance, clothes and woven materials etc. Basically, elements that promotes Africa's rich heritage and culture. expressed through music, song, dance, and movement.


Option D: Bio-diversity

Competition scope: To include submissions that represent the diversity and richness of Africa's many bio and ecological elements, floral kingdoms, and its living fauna; to include media of animals and plants, as well as those that are involved in the husbandry, protection, destruction, etc. of these two subjects.

Vote

VOTE (VOTING CLOSED)

VOTE OPTION A : Celebrate Africa
  1.   Support Sir Amugi (talk)
  2.   Support This can encompass most of the other topics and it's generally feels postive.--Victoria (talk) 09:14, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  3.   Support Onyinye Jane Achukwu (talk)
  4.   Support --Papischou (talk) 10:09, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5.   Support --Icem4k (talk) 12:01, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  6.   Support --ChaloNiZambia (talk) 12:03, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  7.   Support --Jae zambia (talk) 12:05, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  8.   Support--Assilidjoe (talk) 15:17, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  9.   Support--Accuratecy051 (talk) 16:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  10.   Oppose --Le Commissaire (talk) 14:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC) : Given the existence of Wiki Loves Folklore, this theme seems to me to be a duplication.[reply]
  11.   Support--Esthee2010 (talk) 15:17, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  12.   Support Lingabo (talk) 20:56, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  13.   Support Ngangesther (talk) 08:07, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  14.   Neutral - I think it might duplicate too much with WLF, and could be a complicated theme to understand; Anthere (talk) 23:18, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  15.   Support --Wikinade (talk) 15:29, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  16.   Oppose--AdjoEsse (talk) 09:39, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
VOTE OPTION B : Industry and Commerce
  1.   Support Sayvhior (talk) 07:35, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  2.   Support Geert Van Pamel (talk) 07:49, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  3.   Support Ogali Hilary (talk) 08:19, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4.   Support Tochiprecious (talk) 09:46, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5.   Support Dagentle (talk) 11:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  6.   SupportAkum20 (talk) 10:31, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  7.   Support Barke11 (talk) 13:23, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  8.   Support --Le Commissaire (talk) 14:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC) : This theme is under-represented on Commons, and may provide an opportunity for contributors to obtain permission to enter certain factories to take photographs. Support.[reply]
  9.   SupportSindiept (talk) 22:22, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  10.   Support Cnyirahabihirwe123 (talk): I highly support this theme, African industries and Commercial activities are under represented to common, if this theme is selected will be a good opportunity to photographers and the gap of African industries on common will be reduced and articles about industries and commercial activities without pictures will improved Cnyirahabihirwe123 (talk) 10:28, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  11.   Support Clearly defined theme + under-represented on Commons. GuillaumeG (talk) 20:58, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  12.   Support strong support to this theme Anthere (talk) 23:18, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  13.   Support. Kitanago (talk) 09:45, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  14.   SupportAkouete (talk) 16:03, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  15.   Support--Adoscam (talk) 23:46, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  16.   Support--AdjoEsse (talk) 10:56, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
VOTE OPTION C : Africa Create
  1.   Support Godstime Elijah (talk) 05:03, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  2.   Support Geert Van Pamel (talk) 07:49, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  3.   Support Iwuala Lucy (talk) 09:36, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4.   Support Inyor4mr (talk) 09:11, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5.   Support Tochiprecious (talk) 09:46, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  6.   Support Obuezie (talk) 10:03, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  7.   Support --Papischou (talk) 10:09, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  8.   Support Dagentle (talk) 11:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  9.   Support Nwonwu Uchechukwu P
  10.   Support Barke11 (talk) 13:23, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  11.   Support Mwintirew (talk) 14:12, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  12.   Support-- Nehaoua (talk) 12:45, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  13.   Neutral --Le Commissaire (talk) 14:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC) : It seems to me that museums in Africa often forbid photography?[reply]
  14.   Neutral-- Amuzujoe (talk) 18:29, 6 October 2023 (UTC) What's more, freedom of panorama is rare. So, I find this a difficult theme to tackle, although the craft heritage is important to highlight. So I remain neutral.[reply]
  15.   Support Mah3110 (talk) 18:49, 6 October 2023 (UTC) [reply]
  16.   Support Sindiept (talk) 22:18, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  17.   Support Muhammed amine benloulou (talk) 22:30, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  18.   Support Ourytima (talk) 23:51, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  19.   Support --Geugeor (talk) 06:51, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  20.   Support --Fawaz.tairou (talk) 09:01, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  21.   Support --Mndetatsin (talk) 11:20, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  22.   Neutral -- it is a good theme. A bit worried of freedom of panorama. Anthere (talk) 23:18, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  23.   Support. Kitanago (talk) 09:45, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  24.   Support. Abakar B (talk) 10:49, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  25.   Support. Chikeme Chizurum (talk) 18:01, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  26.   Support--AdjoEsse (talk) 10:19, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
VOTE OPTION D : Bio-diversity
  1.   Support Kateregga1 (talk) 06:35, 5 October 2023 (UTC) I feel like we have done a bit of Industry and Commerce, and Africa Create through the people at work theme in the past, but we have never done bio-diversity which would be something new for Wiki Loves Africa to celebrate the reach Bio-diversity of Africa.[reply]
  2.   Support Tochiprecious (talk) 09:46, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  3.   Support Obuezie (talk) 10:03, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4.   Support --Papischou (talk) 10:09, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5.   Support Dagentle (talk) 11:15, 5 October 2023 (UTC) lets go natural.[reply]
  6.   Support Mwintirew (talk) 14:12, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  7.   Support · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 17:02, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  8.   Comment --Le Commissaire (talk) 14:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC) : Categorizing biodiversity remains a very complex task, and if it's not done properly, photos can get lost on Commons, which would be a shame. I remain neutral in this respect. I personally paid the price during a photo outing in a park, I wasn't able to identify what I had photographed, and I even made mistakes.[reply]
  9.   Oppose I love the topic. But I believe it will only really be useful if all images uploaded are described in details and species information provided. Experience showed me that this is unlikely to happen (most people do not know classification) Anthere (talk)
  10.   Support. Kitanago (talk) 09:45, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  11.   Oppose --Wikinade (talk) 15:29, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  12.   Neutral--AdjoEsse (talk) 10:56, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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