Event:Wiki Loves Africa 2025 in Gombe Network

Wiki Loves Africa 2025

Wiki Loves Africa 2025 in Gombe Network is part of the an annual Wiki Loves Africa contest where anyone across Africa can contribute free multimedia content relating to the campaign theme that is relevant to their experience to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects to stand chances of winning prizes.

This year's theme: "Farm to Plate"

The Farm to Plate theme invites media submissions (photos, audio, video) capturing the journey of food from farms to consumption. This includes:

• Agriculture & Farming: Fields, farming activities, crops, livestock, poultry, fisheries, farmers at work, weeding, harvesting, and farm machinery (tractors, plows, tools).

• Food Processing & Distribution: Mills grinding grains, factories processing food, bakeries making bread, butchers preparing meat, markets, and distribution centers.

• Culinary Arts & Cooking: Chefs and home cooks preparing meals, food styling, traditional and modern cooking methods, kitchen tools, restaurants, cafes, and dining experiences.

Submissions should highlight any part of the process that transforms farm produce into food.

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Last year's winners

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  1st prize: L'artisan graveur by User:Fawzi Demmane (Algeria)
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  2nd prize (tied): “Drying moonflowers” by Doaa Adel2023 (Egypt)
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  2nd prize (tied): “Harvesting Tea” byUser:Germain92 (Rwanda)
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  3rd prize: “MN004“ Molten metal craft by Negonasr (Egypt)
• Narrative video prize: “Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Students works for Africa create.webm“ by User:Saalyha Eeman (Nigeria)
• Reportage video prize: “File:The Master Carver and a Message” by Green Wilfred Somoni
• Best short clip: Dying textiles in Côte d’Ivoire by Charlesyaobrou225
• Best Audio:The African Anthem by Abdullahi Tanimu Abubakar (Nigeria)

Photos Submission

Always ensure to use this dedicated Upload Wizard when submitting your photos, videos and audios for consideration.

Competition Rules

Rule 1: All photos must be taken by the person submitting them. Unless, they are uploaded during a registered mass upload session. Your image must have your name, username or nom de plume on the uploaded file.

Rule 2: Entries will only be accepted if uploaded between the 1st March to 30th April 2025. You can enter media that was taken at any time, even historic photographs (as long as you own the copyright on these photographs or they are in the public domain), but they must be uploaded during those dates. Photographs that are already on Commons and re-uploaded are not eligible.

Rule 3: Participants must be registered on Wikimedia Commons and be contactable. Please enable e-mail on Wikimedia Commons when registering so we can contact you if your image is chosen for a prize.

Rule 4: All entries submitted to the contest must be under a free licence (or in the public domain). In most cases, the photo will automatically be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0). Read more about the cc-by-sa license here.

Rule 5: Images that are less than 2 mb or have watermarks or embedded signatures will not be eligible.

Rule 6: Pictures or media must be categorised under from Wiki Loves Africa 2025 to be eligible.

Rule 7: To be considered for the video prize, the file be uploaded in a video format (.ogg, .ogv, or .webm) that is accepted on Wikimedia Commons. Please note that the audio and visual quality and storytelling will be taken into account for your file to be eligible for a prize.

Rule 8: Do NOT use AI to generate images. The international jury will not review any image or series of images that have been generated by AI.

Ineligible photos

• Photographs that are already on Commons (this means 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.
• Images with watermarks, timestamps or image credits on the picture itself or any other kind of editing which associates the image with the uploader are not eligible.
• Images that have been generated by AI are not eligible.

Judging criteria

The judging will be done by a panel of international Wikipedians, professional photographers and subject specialists, based of thumb rules of photography and as well as the community standards.

• A good photo has a good story to tell.
• A good photo removes all unnecessary distractions from the chief element, so that the latter is not out of the focus.
• Potential usefulness and overall value of the image (including its licensing) to the Wikimedia projects.
• Technical quality – Image parameters such as focus, lighting, saturation, ISO etc. will be taken into consideration.

The jury will judge individual entries based on the following criteria:

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

International Prizes

At the international level, there are 3 main prizes for Wiki Loves Africa, and as with every year, there will be two additional prize categories for photos and media. The 2025 international prizes still to be announced. Below are the 2024 Prizes and categories for reference:

Photography:

• 1st prize: US$1000
• 2nd prize: US$900
• 3rd prize: US$700
• Wilson Oluoha prize: US$ 1000

Media (Video, Audio, Graphics, Photo Essays):

• Best audio: US$ 700

• Wiki Loves Africa video prize - Narrative: USD 1,000
• Wiki Loves Africa video prize - Reportage: USD 1000
• Wiki Loves Africa video prize - Clip: USD 200

Nigeria National Prizes

• 1st prize: ₦150,000
• 2nd prize: ₦100,000
• 3rd prize: ₦50,000