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Wiki Loves Africa 2022 - 15^th February 2022 - 30^th April 2022

Take Images of Home and Habitats for Wikipedia and win!

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).

You are encouraged to submit any photos of Home and Habitats in Uganda between 15th February and 15h April 2022. By submitting your photos to the competition, you share homes and habitats in Uganda with the rest of the world to enjoy through the internet and allow visibility of your shots and your country.

Find home and habitats in Uganda

There are plenty of homes and habitats in Uganda. Take images of homes and habitats around you.

Take photos

Make as many and as good photos as you can, try different angles. Even if the photo doesn't win you a prize, it may help Wikipedia!

Describe them

Write down what you photographed. Record the name, description, and date of photo.

Upload to Commons

Upload your images to Wikimedia Commons between 15th of February and 15th of April 2022. Create an account, if you don't have one already.

• Geoffrey Kateregga - Project Lead
• Alvin Ategyeka - Events Lead
• Shafik - Communications and Marketing
• Sandra Aceng - Financials
• Kwera Faith - Jury coordinator
• Hillary Musundi - Communications and Marketing

At the end of the month, the national jury will evaluate the photographs and select the best 10 pictures of the homes and habitats in Uganda to submit to represent in the international finale. The international jury will then announce the international winners in June 2022.
Members of the jury

• Hillary Musundi
• Njoroge Joseph
• Timothy Akolamazima
• Balaba Zac

Judging criteria

The jury will determine the winners of the international contest taking into consideration the following criteria (in no particular order):

• Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective etc.);
• Originality;
• Usefulness of the image for Wikipedia.

Images that reach a top ranking of the international finale, will typically at least fulfill the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons. But feel free to submit many images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.

• 1st prize: US$2000
• 2nd prize: US$1500
• 3rd prize: US$1000
• Culturally specific or traditional representations of home, houses or spaces of living : US$750
• Prize for best quality video (audio and visual quality and storytelling will be taken into account): US$1000
• Special collection (a series of images that tell a story): US$750

Each winner will also receive a pack of Wiki Loves Africa-branded merchandise.

At the national level (Uganda) you stand a chance to win

• 1st National Prize - UGX 400,000
• 2nd National Prize - UGX 300,000
• 3rd National Prize - UGX 200,000

Pictures of the events may be found here : Category:Wiki Loves Africa 2022 in Uganda

• Wiki Loves Africa 2021 Launch in Uganda
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• 2021 National Winners in Uganda photo contest
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  Players scramble for the ball in a game of soccer
  Photo by Joekyabby1
• 
  Getting soap from a touchless solid bar soap dispenser
  Photo by Wabyona Bingi
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  Hand Sanitizing using the automatic sanitizer dispenser
  Photo by Alvinategyeka
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  Children smiling
  Photo by Tonny Mpagi

Previous years links

• WLA in 2021 in Uganda
• WLA in 2020 in Uganda
• WLA in 2019 in Uganda
• WLA in 2018 in Uganda
• WLA in 2017 in Uganda
• WLA in 2016 in Uganda
• WLA in 2015 in Uganda
• WLA in 2014 in Uganda

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