Published: 18 Mar 2022 632 views
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).
| Application Deadline | 15 Apr 2022 |
| Type | Entrepreneurs |
| Sponsor | Wikimedia Commons |
| Gender | Men and Women |
There are several prizes up for grabs for quality entries:both at a national and international level. For national prizes, please see what events are being held locally in your country.
At the international level, there are 6 main prize categories for Wiki Loves Africa.
The international prizes are :
Each winner will also receive a pack of Wiki Loves Africa-branded merchandise.
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
For more details, visit Wikimedia Commons website.
