Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2015/Competition rules

There are just a few simple rules to participate to Wiki Loves Africa photographic contest:

Acceptable files

The basic set of rules or "recommendations" to run the contest are:

• All photos participating in the competition should be self-taken. They can be either self-uploaded or uploaded during a registered mass upload session;
• Upload is done in October and November only;
• You must supply your entry under a free copyright licence, or release it to the public domain. The preferred licence used by the upload wizard is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 CC-BY-SA 4.0;
• All eligible pictures should have an identifier, given by the participants during the upload (if upload is done via the official upload wizard, it will automatically will do most of the work for you). The identification is done by adding the following category to the page description of the image: [[category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2015]];
• Participants should have their e-mail enabled on Wikimedia Commons to be eligible for prizes;

Not eligible

• Non-photographic works such as drawings or entirely computer-generated works
• Photographs that are already on Commons (ie re-uploading is not allowed)
• As the images will be hosted on Wikimedia Commons, all entries must fall within Commons scope. Any that do not will be disqualified and may be deleted without notice.

Judging criteria

The jury will judge individual entries based on the following criteria (in no particular order):

• Technical quality
• Originality
• Potential usefulness and overall value of the image (including its licensing) to the Wikimedia projects

Jury composition

To be determined

Awards

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

The small print

The organisers of the Wiki Loves Africa competition reserve the right to modify these rules or to cancel the contest at their sole discretion, even after it has started. The organizers accept no responsibility for the provision by the sponsors of any prizes, nor of any liability whatsoever in respect of this contest. Neither the rules nor anything on these pages amount to an offer to create legally binding relations with any of the organizers. Members of the jury and staff of Africa Center are not eligible to receive any award (although they are otherwise welcome to contribute images).