Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) is an annual contest where people across Africa can contribute media about their environment
on Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of
the Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Loves Africa particularly encourages
participants to contribute media (photographs, video and audio) that
illustrate a specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes
and could include any such 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 2014 photo contest will be Wiki Loves Africa Cuisine.
This year's contest will seek to document in the form of various media,
the diverse types of cuisines across the continent of Africa. The theme
will encompass the "foods", "dishes", "crops", "husbandry", "culinary
art", "cooking methods", "utensils", "food markets",traditional symbols
and arts "festivals", "culinary events", "famine food" and any other
issues related to cuisine on the African continent.
The project is a two-month competition which will start on the 1st October and end on the 30th November 2014.
The project will be run at the entire continental level. However,
some specific actions (training, communication etc.) will be held in
some countries with national organisers. The project will feature a
contest to select the best media at the continental level, with a
ceremony and prizes as deemed appropriate.
Please access our website here :
Wiki Loves Africa Website
Participating Countries
The call for pictures and the contest will run in all African countries.
However, in 2014, specific focus will be put on the following countries (referred to
focus countries):
South Africa,
Tunisia,
Egypt,
Ghana,
Côte d'Ivoire,
Uganda,
Ethiopia and
Malawi (check out
teams here).
Please note that volunteers are encouraged to host Wiki Loves Africa in their own countries.
