2023/2024 Wiki Loves Africa Application Form Portal

Wiki Loves Africa 2023… Do you wish to apply for Wiki Loves Africa 2023? If yes, then this informative article is for you. You will be given detailed information about Wiki Loves Africa 2023, Eligibility, And How To Apply.

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).

Eligibility

• Open to anyone across Africa;
• All photos must be taken by the person submitting them. Unless they are uploaded during a registered mass upload session. Your image must have your name, username or nom de plume on the uploaded file.
• You can enter media that was taken at any time, even historic photographs (as long as you own the copyright on these photographs or they are in the public domain), but they must be uploaded during those dates. Photographs that are already on Commons and re-uploaded are not eligible.
• Participants must be registered on Wikimedia Commons and be contactable. Please enable e-mail on Wikimedia Commons when registering so they can contact you if your image is chosen for a prize.
• All entries submitted to the contest must be under a free license (or in the public domain). In most cases, the photo will automatically be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0).
• Images that are less than 2MB or have watermarks or embedded signatures will not be eligible.
• Pictures or media must be categorized under Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2023 to be eligible.
• To be considered for the video prize, the file must be uploaded in a video format (.ogg, .ogv, or .webm) that is accepted on Wikimedia Commons. Please note that the audio and visual quality and storytelling will be taken into account for your file to be eligible for a prize.

IMPORTANT! The Wiki Loves Africa Application Form 2023 is not yet out online, DISREGARD any form of advert you come across. This page will be updated immediately after the form is out.

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