WIKI LOVES AFRICA 2015
The photo contest around Africa, for 2014 go here
Welcome to the Wikimedia Commons portal for Wiki Loves Africa!
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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.
Examples
Tuareg jewellery
Raw silk lamba (shawl), the iconic traditional article of clothing in Madagascar
The Victoria-Transvaal Diamond. Transvaal, South Africa..
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