Call for Entries – Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2025 – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2025

Applications for the Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2025 at the moment are open. Wiki Loves Africa is Africa’s largest overtly-licensed photographic, video and audio contest. The 2025 theme is Farm to Plate.

The theme Farm to Plate calls for the submission of media (images, audio, video) that portrays fields, agricultural practices, farm merchandise, farm machines, individuals farming, meals transformation and processing, cooking, eating places, dressing on plates, cooking materials and your complete course of (or a section of it) that in consists of reworking farm produce into meals.

Prizes

Photography:

• 1st prize: US$1,000
• 2nd prize: US$900
• third prize: US$700
• Wilson Oluoha prize: US$1,000

Media (Video, Audio, Graphics, Photo Essays):

• Best audio: US$ 700
• Wiki Loves Africa video prize – Narrative: USD $1,000
• Wiki Loves Africa video prize – Reportage: USD $1,000
• Wiki Loves Africa video prize – Clip: USD $200

Eligibility

• All images should be taken by the particular person submitting them. Unless, they’re uploaded throughout a registered mass add session. Your picture should have your identify, username or nom de plume on the uploaded file.
• Entries will solely be accepted if uploaded between March 1 to April 30, 2025. You can enter media that was taken at any time, even historic pictures (so long as you personal the copyright on these pictures or they’re within the public area), however they should be uploaded throughout these dates. Photographs which might be already on Commons and re-uploaded usually are not eligible.
• Participants should be registered on Wikimedia Commons and be contactable. Enable e-mail on Wikimedia Commons when registering to allow them to contact you in case your picture is chosen for a prize.
• All entries submitted to the competition should be beneath a free license (or within the public area). In most instances, the photograph will mechanically be licensed beneath the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0).
• Images which might be lower than 2MB or have watermarks or embedded signatures won’t be eligible.
• Pictures or media should be categorised beneath Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2025 to be eligible.
• To be thought of for the video prize, the file should be uploaded in a video format (.ogg, .ogv, or .webm) that’s accepted on Wikimedia Commons. Note that the audio and visible high quality and storytelling shall be taken under consideration for your file to be eligible for a prize.
• Do NOT use AI to generate photos. The worldwide jury won’t evaluation any picture or collection of photos which were generated by AI.

Judging Criteria

The judging shall be executed by a panel of worldwide Wikipedians, skilled photographers and topic specialists, primarily based of thumb guidelines of images and in addition to the neighborhood requirements.

• photograph has a superb story to inform.
• photograph removes all pointless distractions from the chief ingredient, in order that the latter is just not out of the main target.
• Potential usefulness and general worth of the picture (together with its licensing) to the Wikimedia initiatives.
• Technical high quality – Image parameters equivalent to focus, lighting, saturation, ISO and so on. shall be considered.

The jury will choose particular person entries primarily based on the next standards:

• Technical high quality
• Originality
• Potential usefulness and general worth of the picture (together with its licensing) to the Wikimedia initiatives.

Application

For extra info, go to Commons:Wiki Loves Africa.