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Resources

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At any time, remember to check out our resources

Search for 2025 Theme

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Invitation to vote for 2025 theme [updating]

[Schedule] WLA 2024 Winners WAH interview

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Announcing the Winners of the Wiki Loves Africa 2024 contest in various categories

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Click to see the Official Winners Announcement [To be updated from 9th September 2024]

Wiki Loves Africa 2024 Post-Contest Participants Survey

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Dear all,

The Organisers of Wiki Loves Africa International photo contest would like to get feedback from Wiki Loves Africa 2024 participants and organizers through a short survey. This is to help the team to understand what didn’t work well, and what worked well in order to make Wiki Loves Africa better in the future.

To fill the short survey, visit https://bit.ly/WLA24_survey.

WLA 2024 International Jury

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Calling for community members to nominate/volunteer to join the WLA Jury (Photo + Jury). Kindly email Wilson – wilson@wikiinafrica.org to nominate yourself or someone else. Note: availability for the task is key.

Post contest interviews ongoing

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Kindly contact Wilson via wilson@wikiinafrica if you are a WLA local organizer and will like to be interviewed about the just concluded Wiki Loves Africa 2024.

Call for Wiki Loves Africa 2024 Images First Review volunteers

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Please fill out this form if you would like to volunteer for the first review team for the 2024 WLA contest. The first review is a community led process that aims to sort and reduce the total submitted photos into a manageable quantity for the international jury.

Webinar: 8 things you need to know about Wikimedia Commons Category

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Webinar: Introduction to Local Jury Process and Navigating Montage

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Workshop: Introduction to Image cleanup and tagging

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CLOSED: Official closing date for uploads for WLA 2024

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Workshop: Videography Basics for WLA 2024

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Workshop: Photo Processing using Mobile phones

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Webinar: Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing Policy on Commons

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Webinaire: Droits d'Auteur et Licences sur Wikimedia Commons

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Webinar: Mobile Phone Photography

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Training: Uploading Videos to Wikimedia Commons

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Official 2024 Contest Launch Event

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English Office Hours

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French Office Hours

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Arabic Office Hours

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English Office Hours

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Arabic Office Hours

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Announcement of 2024 Ambassadors

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After a thorough review process, the following were announced as WLA ambassadors for 2024:

Call For 2024 Ambassadors

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Apply for the Wiki Loves Africa Linguistic Ambassadors: CLICK HERE
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS : 4 December 2023 – midnight, everywhere on Earth.

Announcement of official theme for WLA 2024

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Announcement of official theme for WLA 2024 Africa Create