Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2015

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WIKI LOVES AFRICA 2015 The photo contest around Africa, for 2014 go here What is Wiki Loves Africa? Wiki Loves Africa (http://www.wikilovesafrica.org) is a public annual contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Loves Africa particularly encourages participants to contribute media that illustrate a specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes and could include any universal, visually rich and culturally specific topic (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc). The project is run across the whole continent, however, some specific actions (training, communication etc.) are held in some countries with national organisers. When does it take place and what is the focus theme in 2015 ? Wiki Loves Africa is a two-month competition which start on the 1st October and ends on the 30th November 2015. The 2015 theme is: Cultural Fashion and Adornment The competition scope is: media that shows representations of cultural dress and fashion; specifically fashion that is defined by local cultural influences and determines cloth, styles, ways of wrapping and hanging, etc. Adornment is also part of the theme, which means that media of culturally defined jewellery, make-up, hairstyles and headdresses, cloths, scarification and tattoos, woven materials, etc. can also be entered. What prizes are up for grabs? 1st prize: a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 + an Africa-published book + Mystery gifts from the Wikimedia Store + print of the participant winning picture 2nd prize: US$300 Amazon gift + an Africa-published book + Mystery gifts from the Wikimedia Store + print of the 2nd prize picture 3rd prize: US$200 Amazon gift + an Africa-published book + Mystery gifts from the Wikimedia Store + print of the 3rd prize picture Community Prize: US$200 Amazon gift voucher + an Africa-published book + Mystery gifts from the Wikimedia Store + print of the Community Prize Examples Tuareg jewellery Raw silk lamba (shawl), the iconic traditional article of clothing in Madagascar The Victoria-Transvaal Diamond. Transvaal, South Africa.. Waist beads worn by African women to communicate sexual desires and matters. Waist beads worn by African women to communicate sexual desires and matters. Nguni art. Jewellery of South Africa. Tropenmuseum. Women with stretched ear lobes in Ethiopia Berber fibules, silver. Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France. Zulu man with jewellery. Tropenmuseum. Henna for hair Traditional tatoo of Datoga people A Nuba woman hairstyle Burnus from Tunisia The Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People Group of Peul women in Paoua African Waxprints, West Africa Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum Lustenau Lagos African Lace Commemorative wraps (Pagnes) printed on wax fabric in the 1960s Local Central African Republic fashion Tagulmust in Algeria Team Anthere Islahaddow User:Romaine In Tanzania Geoffrey Kateregga Bukulu Steven In Ivory Coast Papischou Eltia Aimée In Tunisia Mounir Touzri Emna Mizouni In Egypt Mohamed Ouda Ahmed Mohi El din In Algeria Mohammed Bachounda Reda Kerbouche In Cameroon Georges Fodouop Aminou Ndala Tita MacViban Dzekashu Uwe Jung In Uganda Erina Mukuta Mulumba Ivan Matthias Ssebaggala Douglas In Nigeria Olaniyan Olushola (user:Olaniyan Olushola) Kayode Yussuf (user:kayusyussuf) Olatunde Isaac (User:Wikicology) babatunde osiyale (m:user:TbabaOsi) user:Eruditescholar Results Name of region and territory Number of images contributed during WLA 2014 Number of images contributed during WLA 2015 % reuse on Wikimedia projects Unspecified country 164 Northern Africa Algeria 86 Canary Islands (Spain) Ceuta (Spain) 0 Egypt 428 Libya 12 Madeira 0 Melilla (Spain) 0 Morocco 378 Sudan 36 Tunisia 756 Western Sahara Horn of Africa or Northeast Africa Djibouti 0 Eritrea 2 Ethiopia 125 Somalia 5 Eastern Africa Burundi 12 British Indian Ocean Territory - Chagos Archipelago (United Kingdom) Comoros 0 Kenya 207 Madagascar 24 Malawi 79 Mauritius 2 Mayotte (France) Mozambique 35 Réunion (France) Rwanda 40 Seychelles 0 South Sudan 0 Tanzania 151 Uganda 696 Zambia 49 Zimbabwe 28 Central Africa Angola 16 Cameroon 73 Central African Republic 0 Chad 3 Republic of the Congo 2 Democratic Republic of the Congo 18 Equatorial Guinea 0 Gabon 6 São Tomé and Príncipe 0 Southern Africa Botswana 6 Lesotho 0 Namibia 3 South Africa 354 Swaziland 1 Western Africa Benin 8 Burkina Faso 16 Cape Verde 5 Gambia 1 Ghana 829 Guinea 22 Guinea-Bissau 0 Ivory Coast 996 Liberia 34 Mali 10 Mauritania 2 Niger 16 Nigeria 282 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK) Senegal 181 Sierra Leone 15 Togo 54 Africa Total 5889 Source of table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa#Territories_and_regions Links Wiki Loves Africa Website Commons:Wiki Loves Africa/2015 theme ideas Commons:Wiki loves contest

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