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Water tank located edit

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi. I had your file "Centerville Water Tank.jpg" renamed to File:Madisonville Mustangs water tower at Madison County Jail 2010 tilted.jpg; I finally found it in Madisonville, Texas. It turned out to be quite a distance from the other water towers in Madisonville. I also put coordinates on the photo based on where it looks like you took the picture from. Hope this helps. --Closeapple (talk) 20:28, 21 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Loves Africa edit

In English (lire en français plus bas)

Thank you for your contribution to Wiki Loves Africa 2017

The project is a celebration of the visual diversity of Africa on Wikipedia and its sister projects. There are several fun ways you can help us to make the impact of Wiki Loves Africa stronger:

Add more categories to your images so that people will find them to use them in articles ... you can see how to do this here: Quick Guide to Categories on Commons
Add your image to a relevant Wikipedia article, i.e. if your image shows a tailor sewing, then add the image to an article on Sewing or Tailors - this allows readers to see different global perspectives of a universal subject. You can see how to do this here: How to insert images into Wikipedia using WikiText
Improve the images description to make them easier to understand and reuse.
If there is no article that reflects the subject of your images, then start an article about that subject. If you are a new editor, you can see how to do that here: Creating your first article
Add more images - you can add more images or media that reflect interesting and encyclopedic subjects in your immediate community.
Become involved in (or start) your local Wikimedia community groups - it is a lot of fun, and is important! Find the existing groups here: Wikimedia groups across Africa

We look forward to seeing your contributions!!

Warmest,

Anthere for the Wiki Loves Africa Team

Merci d'avoir participé à Wiki Loves Africa 2017 !

Le projet se veut une célébration de la diversité visuelle de l'Afrique sur Wikipédia et ses projets frères. Vous pouvez augmenter l'impact de Wiki Loves Africa des façons suivantes:

Fournir d'avantage de photos !
Ajouter des catégories à vos images afin que les utilisateurs les trouvent plus facilement. Voici comment faire: Commons:Catégories.
Vous pouvez également améliorer les descriptions de vos images pour faciliter leur compréhension et leur réutilisation.
Ajouter vos images dans un article existant sur Wikipédia.
S'il n'existe aucun article correspondant à ce qu'illustre votre photo, pourquoi ne pas envisager de créer un nouvel article sur Wikipedia ?
Vous pouvez même rejoindre un groupe d'utilisateurs locaux. Vous pouvez trouver les groupes déjà existant ici: groupes Wikimedia en Afrique

Merci encore pour vos contributions.

Anthere pour l'équipe Wiki Loves Africa.

Wiki Loves Africa edit

The Wiki Loves Africa 2017 photographic contest is officially closed. Thank you all for your participation !

This year, the photographic competition has resulted in an amazing 18,294 image uploads to Commons around the theme People at Work.
International winners have been announced !!! Check it out on Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2017/Winners. Congratulations to winners and all those who participated and organised events. More national winners are yet to be announced.
Please follow us on Facebook to know more and stay informed next year.

There are several fun ways you can help us to make the impact of Wiki Loves Africa stronger:

Add more categories to your images so that people will find them to use them in articles ... you can see how to do this here: Quick Guide to Categories on Commons
Improve the images description to make them easier to understand and reuse.
Add your image to a relevant Wikipedia article, i.e. if your image shows a tailor sewing, then add the image to an article on Sewing or Tailors - this allows readers to see different global perspectives of a universal subject. You can see how to do this here: How to insert images into Wikipedia using WikiText
If there is no article that reflects the subject of your images, then start an article about that subject. If you are a new editor, you can see how to do that here: Creating your first article
Add more images - you can add more images or media that reflect interesting and encyclopedic subjects in your immediate community.
Use the images produced during the contest. Here is a short link to the best ones : c:Category:Best images from Wiki Loves Africa 2017

We look forward to seeing your contributions!!

Warmest,

Anthere for the Wiki Loves Africa Team

Le concours Wiki Loves Africa 2017 est officiellement fermé. Merci d'avoir participé !
Cette année, le concours photo Wiki Loves Africa 2017 a permis l'ajout de 18,294 photos à Wikimedia Commons sur le thème Les gens au travail, une participation en très forte augmentation par rapport aux années précédentes.
Les gagnants ont été annoncés !!! Voir tous les résultats sur Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2017/Winners. Félicitations aux gagnants mais aussi à tous les participants ainsi qu'aux organisateurs d'évènements. Des gagnants nationaux doivent encore être annoncés.
Suivez nos actualités sur Facebook pour en savoir plus et être informés du prochain concours.

Le projet se veut une célébration de la diversité visuelle de l'Afrique sur Wikipédia et ses projets frères. Vous pouvez augmenter l'impact de Wiki Loves Africa des façons suivantes:

Fournir d'avantage de photos !
Ajouter des catégories à vos images afin que les utilisateurs les trouvent plus facilement. Voici comment faire: Commons:Catégories.
Vous pouvez également améliorer les descriptions de vos images pour faciliter leur compréhension et leur réutilisation.
Ajouter vos images dans un article existant sur Wikipédia.
S'il n'existe aucun article correspondant à ce qu'illustre votre photo, pourquoi ne pas envisager de créer un nouvel article sur Wikipedia ?
Vous pouvez même rejoindre un groupe d'utilisateurs locaux. Vous pouvez trouver les groupes déjà existant ici: groupes Wikimedia en Afrique
Utilisez les meilleures images produites pendant le concours. Voici un lien vers les meilleures : c:Category:Best images from Wiki Loves Africa 2017

Merci encore pour vos contributions.

Anthere pour l'équipe Wiki Loves Africa.

مسابقة التصوير الفوتوغرافي ويكي تهوى إفريقيا 2017 رسميًا مغلقة . شكرا لكم على مشاركتكم !

في هذا العام ، أسفرت مسابقة التصوير الفوتوغرافي عن تحميلات مذهلة للصور بلغ عددها 18،294 إلى كومنز حول موضوع الناس في العمل.

تم الإعلان عن الفائزين الدوليين !!! شاهد ذلك على كومنز: ويكي تهوى إفريقيا 2017 / الفائزين. تهانينا للفائزين وجميع من شاركوا في الفعاليات التي نظمت. المزيد من الفائزين الوطنيين لم يعلن بعد. يرجى متابعتنا على فيسبوك لمعرفة المزيد من االأخبار والبقاء على اطلاع للسنة المقبلة .

هناك العديد من الطرق الممتعة التي يمكنك مساعدتنا في جعل ويكي تهوى إفريقيا أقوى تأثيرا:

أضف المزيد من التصانيف إلى صورك حتى يعثر عليها المستخدمون لإستعمالها في المقالات... يمكنك أن ترى كيفية القيام بذلك هنا: الدليل السريع التصانيف في كومنز
قم بتحسين وصف الصور لتسهيل فهمها وإعادة استخدامها.
أضف صورتك إلى مقالة في ويكيبيديا ذات صلة، أي إذا كانت صورتك تعرض خياطة مخصصة ، أضف الصورة إلى مقالة عن الخياطة أو الخياطة - وهذا يتيح للقراء رؤية مشاهد عالمية مختلفة لموضوع عالمي. يمكنك أن ترى كيفية القيام بذلك هنا: كيفية إدراج الصور في ويكيبيديا باستخدام ويكي نص
إذا لم تكن هناك مقالة تعكس موضوع صورك ، فقم ببدء مقال حول هذا الموضوع. إذا كنت محررًا جديدًا ، يمكنك مشاهدة كيفية القيام بذلك هنا: إنشاء مقالتك الأولى.
إضافة المزيد من الصور - يمكنك إضافة المزيد من الصور أو الوسائط التي تعكس مواضيع مثيرة للاهتمام وموسوعية في مجتمعك المباشر.
استخدم الصور المنتجة خلال المسابقة. هنا رابط قصير لأفضلها أفضل الصور من ويكي تهوى إفريقيا

نحن شغوفون إلى رؤية مساهماتك !!

تحياتنا ،

أنتير من فريق ويكي تهوى إفريقيا

Wiki Loves Africa 2019 edit

Dear Mlenge,

You have contributed in the past to the Wiki Loves Africa competition. Your images have helped people learn more about Africa and see Africa more clearly from an African perspective. Overall, nearly 5000 people like you have contributed to this photo contest, and contributed nearly 40000 images about Africa. Pictures from Wiki Loves Africa illustrate more than 7000 Wikipedia articles and they received... 278.859.973 views between 2015 through the end of 2018. WOW ! How does it feel to be part of this and really make a difference when it come to Africa representation on Wikipedia ?

This February, you have another opportunity to create beautiful photographs on the theme of "play" that could change how the world understands people and culture in your part of Africa.

Wiki Loves Africa is a annual public contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation.

When does it take place?
The 2019 competition will start on 1st February 2019 and close on 1st March 2019.

What should we contribute?
Pictures ! audios ! videos ! The theme for the 2019 contest is... Play.
This theme encompasses a host of approaches and is intentionally open to interpretation. The theme Play! encourages the submission of visual representations of joyful and serious games, sport, and recreation in the form of board or mental games, physical fun or contests, playful interactions, theatrical and musical performances, etc.

In addition to the value your photos contribute to human understanding and african visibility on the Internet, there are several prizes on offer – including two separate prize categories for photos and media that encompass

(a) capture Women in sport or
(b) culturally specific and traditional formal forms of play, recreation or events.

For rules and information about how to participate, or to join the contest, click on: Contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa photo contest.

Warmest,

Anthere, for the Wiki Loves Africa Team

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Cher ou chère Mlenge,

Par le passé, vous avez participé au concours photographique Wiki Loves Africa. Vos photos ont aidé de nombreuses personnes à mieux comprendre l'Afrique et à la voir sous un autre angle, l'angle des africains eux-même. Depuis sa création en 2014, près de 5000 personnes ont contribué au concours photo, en ajoutant près de 40000 photos relatives à l'Afrique. 5000 personnes, dont vous, qui ont fait une vraie différence sur la représentation de l'Afrique sur Wikipédia et en ligne. Mieux encore... ces photos illustrent aujourd'hui près de 7000 articles Wikipédia et totalisent 278.859.973 vues entre 2015 et fin 2018 !

Ce mois de février vous avez à nouveau l'opportunité de proposer de fabuleuses illustrations sur le thème du "Jeu", qui participeront à changer la façon dont les êtres humains à travers le monde comprennent les habitants et la culture de votre région..

Wiki Loves Africa, c’est un concours public annuel où chacun est invité à partager des illustrations via Wikimedia Commons, en rapport avec le thème de l’année, illustrations qui pourront être utilisées sur Wikipédia ou les autres sites de la Wikimedia Foundation.

Quand le concours se déroule t-il?
Le concours 2019 démarre le 1er février 2019 et cloture le 1er mars 2019.

Quelles sont les contenus attendus?
Des photos ! Des enregistrements audio ! Des vidéos ! Le thème du concours 2019 est ... Jouer.
Ce thème englobe de nombreuses approches, il est aussi intentionnellement ouvert à l’interprétation. Le thème Jouer ! encourage à proposer des représentations de jeux de détente et sérieux, du sport et des divertissements sous la forme de jeux de société ou de jeux intellectuels, d'activités physiques de divertissement ou de compétitions, d'interactions ludiques, de performances théâtrales ou musicales, etc..

En plus de la valeur intrinsèque que vos photos apporteront à la compréhension et à la visibilité du monde africain sur Internet, il y a de nombreux prix à gagner. Dont deux prix spéciaux pour les photos qui représentent

a) femmes et sport ou
b) formes de jeux, de divertissements ou d’évènements culturellement spécifiques ou traditionnels.

Pour plus d'informations, règles de participation et pour participer au concours, cliquez sur Contribuer au concours photo Wiki Loves Africa.

Bien à vous,

Anthere, pour l'équipe Wiki Loves Africa

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Study shows Wiki Love Africa recruitment makes a difference edit

Hello Mlenge

We are writing because you have participated in the Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) photo competition in the past. Results have been published and winning pictures may be seen here !

This year WLA partnered with the research organization CAT Lab (previously CivilServant) to help us evaluate the effectiveness of one of our recruitment efforts. You may or may not have received a message on your user talk page encouraging you to participate again in this year's competition.

We are excited to share with you their study found our recruitment message was a success and may have resulted in as many as 2,000 additional contributed photos. We hope you agree this is great news for Africa and its representation across Wikimedia. You can read more about the study and the results in this blog post.

If you have any questions about the study, we encourage you to ask CAT Lab's research manager Juliakamin(cs).

Anthere, for the Wiki Loves Africa Team

Wiki Loves Africa edit

Dear Mlenge

In the past, you contributed to the Wiki Loves Africa competition. You have another opportunity to create and submit beautiful photographs on the theme of "Health and Wellness" that could change how the world understands people and culture in your part of Africa. As with previous years, there are also many exciting national and international prizes.

For rules and information about how to participate, theme, or prizes click on Contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa photo contest or directly add picture from the button !

Warmest, Anthere, for the Wiki Loves Africa Team

Cher ou chère Mlenge,
Au cours des années passées, vous avez participé au concours photographique Wiki Loves Africa. Vous avez à nouveau l'opportunité de proposer de fabuleuses illustrations sur le thème de "la santé et le bien-être", qui pourraient profondément modifier la façon dont le reste du monde voit l’Afrique et comprend ses habitants et ses coutumes. Bonus, comme lors des années précédentes, il y a plusieurs prix à la clé !

Pour plus d'informations, règles de participation, le thème ou les prix, cliquez sur Participer au concours Wiki Loves Africa ou téléversez des photos en cliquant sur le bouton !

Bien à vous, Anthere, pour l'équipe Wiki Loves Africa

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