WIKI LOVES AFRICA 2021 IN UGANDA ACTIVITY PAGE |
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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 2021 contest is Health and Wellness, running from 15th February 2021 until 15th of April 2021.
Pictures ! audios ! videos !
The competition is being led by volunteers from the Wikimedia Community Usergroup in Uganda
Volunteer participants from the community in Uganda.
No | Names | User account |
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1 | Abaho Albert | |
2 | Ategeka Alvin | |
3 | Bruno Ashimwe | |
4 | Elisha Muwanguzi | |
5 | Kyesubire Maria | |
6 | Masumbuka Jamaldin | |
7 | Nshemeire Addah | |
8 | Njoroge Joseph | |
9 | Sharon Arinaitwe | SharonDawn |
10 | Tumwine Kenneth | Tumwinekenneth |
11 | Twinamatsiko Dickson | |
12** | List of all participants in 2021 | Users in Uganda |
There are several prizes for grabs, both nationally and internationally. For international prizes, please see the international page on commons.
At the national level, the Wikimedia Community Usergroup in Uganda will provide the following prizes;
Dates | venue | Activity | Status |
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January | |||
Week 4 | Offline | Meeting with WLA 2021 Local Lead organisers | [OK] |
February | |||
Week 1 | Online | Intellectual Property and rules on Wikicommons | [OK] |
March | |||
Week 2 | Online | WLA2021 activity schedules and roles | [OK] |
Week 3 | Offline | Competition Launch Preparation | [OK] |
Week 4 (03/27/2021) | Offline/online (hybrid) | Local competition Launch and usefulness of images | [OK] |
April | |||
Week 1 (04/10/2021) | online (Hybrid) | Group upload event | [OK] Postponed |
Week 2 | Online | Individual uploads continue | [OK] |
Week 3 | Online | Final Local image photo hunts | [OK] |
Week 4 | Online | Final uploads and Jury selection process | [OK] |
May | |||
Week 1 | Online | Selection of (national) winning photos | [OK] |
Week 2 | Offline/online (Hybrid) | Award of prizes | [OK] |
Week 3 | Online | Final meta updates and documentation | [OK] |
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