Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2024 in Sudan
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 Africa Creates in Sudan between 1st March to 30 April 2024. By submitting your photos to the competition, you share images of Africa Creates themes in Sudan with the world through Wikimedia Commons.
Who Can Participate
Are you are in Sudan, have been in Sudan in any part of it. Find and take photos, Video's (time lapses etc), Audio (sound) of anything related to Africa Create an artistic way and upload it to Wikimedia Commons.
Instructions On How To Participate
The theme Africa Creates, celebrates the creation, manufacture, and/or production of items, objects, commodities, and products by Africans across the continent. As a theme, Africa Creates encompasses the creation of art in all forms: craft, fashion, film, dance, literature, textile design and fabrication, beverages, or street or restaurant food, using traditional methods or modern processes of manufacture. It could also document the creation, manufacture, or processing of items for sale or production in factories at an industrial scale, such as food processing, beverage production, manufacture of ceramics, clothes, and household items, and industrial manufacture, for example, smelting works, industrial engineering, or glass production.
'Africa Creates' is interested in the process of creation rather than the final product and aims to celebrate and capture human ingenuity as it happens. The focus of the photographer, filmmaker, or audiophile should be on capturing the process of creation or manufacture, not on the final product itself. If the final product is featured, please do not make it the central focus of the image.
The highlight of winning submissions will be focused on media that depicts the process (of creation or manufacture) and not on the finished work itself.
Below are just some ideas to explore around the theme concept....
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Examples Of Videos To Take
Glass blowing forming the Body https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glass_blowing_forming_the_body,_part2.webm
Competition rules
Every Upload should be:
- Done with a Wikimedia commons Username. If you do not have one, you can kindly Create an account here.
- Self taken and self uploaded;
- Uploaded during March and April 2024;
- Uploaded process with give permission with a CC BY-SA licenseto re-use the image;
Events
- March 1st 2024: launch of international contest
- March 23rd 2024 : Launch of the local contest
Activities
Online and in-person Activities in Cairo - Egypt and Kosti (White Nile state)- Sudan
- Introductory sessions Wikimedia
- Basics of photography
- Short videos Montage training
- Editing for broadcast creators
- Edit-a-thon sessions
Prizes
There are several prizes up for grabs, both nationally and internationally.
The international level prizes are listed here
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Participate
Find an Africa Creates image, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:
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