Deadline: 15-Apr-22
Wiki Loves Africa is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute media that relates to that year’s theme to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wiki Loves Africa encourages participants to contribute media (photographs, video and audio) that illustrate the specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes.
Each year’s theme is chosen by the community to be a universal, visually-rich and culturally-specific topics (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc).
The theme for the 2022 contest is Home and Habitat. Homes come in all shapes and sizes. They reflect the deep-seated identity, interconnections to the community and economic reality. They display the traditional roots, the aesthetic choices and the aspirations.
What should they contribute? Pictures! Audio! Videos!
The theme Home and Habitat calls for the submission of visual representations of home, habitat. The theme celebrates the diversity and unique spaces and places both humans and animals alike consider home. Those quarters, lodgings, rooms, addresses, locations, dens, nests, burrows and caves. Those places of safety and peace where people and animals can relax, recover, rest, reconnect with family and community, and where they can fully express themselves, their tastes, their identity and heritage.
Benefits
The international prizes are:
- 1st prize: US$2000
- 2nd prize: US$1500
- 3rd prize: US$1000
- Culturally specific or traditional representations of home, houses or spaces of living : US$750
- Prize for best quality video (audio and visual quality and storytelling will be taken into account): US$1000
- Special collection (a series of images that tell a story): US$750
Each winner will also receive a pack of Wiki Loves Africa-branded merchandise.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entered images or media must visually capture the theme as it applies to “Africa.
- To be considered, entries must be submitted under under a free license.
- Get your camera, take photos of your Africa.
- There are prizes to be won for winning quality photographs.
For more information, visit https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2022