2024:Program/The Winners and Impact of Wiki Loves Africa 2024
Session title: The Winners and Impact of Wiki Loves Africa 2024
- Session type: Poster
- Track: GLAM
- Language: en
Wiki Loves Africa is an annual photography and media competition that, in 2024, is hosting its 10th year under the theme Africa Creates! This poster will showcase the 2024 competition – including the winners, the winning images and the Wikimedia communities organising local events during the contest.
Description
[edit | edit source]This poster will showcase the 2024 competition – including the Wikimedia communities that are organising events during the contest. It will also present the winners of this year's contest (including the shortlisted images) and provide insight into the contest's impact on photographers, filmmakers, Commonists and others in the form of quotes, statistics, and stories to showcase the human impact of the project across the Continent.
Wiki Loves Africa is one of the largest photography competitions on the African continent. Beyond its impressive statistics and the many articles Wiki Loves Africa images illustrate on Wikimedia projects, Wiki Loves Africa has had a significant impact on Africa's photographers and filmmakers and on the 30+ Wikimedia Communities that are hosting local events this year.
Knowledge about Africa is still significantly underrepresented. Wiki Loves Africa is the only continent-wide contest that visually celebrates and documents the everyday lives and diverse cultures of the people across our continent.
Watch the Wiki Loves Africa 2024 theme video to see what images will be contributed to the contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCJ3b-CzQEc
- Theme page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2024/Theme
- Main Contest Page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2024
- Organisers hub on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2024
- Summitted entries 2024: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2024
- Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesafrica/
- Contest website: https://www.wikilovesafrica.net/
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
Wiki Loves Africa over the last 10 years has had an immense impact into the development of the Wikimedia community across Africa. In the beginning it was started with the aligned support of Creative Commons and Open Street Map communities. It has since grown into its own annual movement with over 30+ communities hosting local events supported by an international team. The contest is used to build the skills and involvement of Wikimedia communities, and at the same time introduce Wikimedia Commons as an alternative platform for Africa's photographers to share their personal vision of their Africa.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
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[edit | edit source]Speakers
[edit | edit source]- Islahaddow
- Isla is the co-executive director and founder of Wiki In Africa. She has been a Wikipedian since 2011, co-creating projects that activate Africa’s collective voice and experiences through the Wikimedia and Open movements. She co-leads ground-breaking Africa-focused projects such as Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Women, WikiAfrica Hour, African Environment WikiFocus, ISA Tool, WikiFundi, and WikiChallenge Écoles d’Afrique. She also works part-time as Director of Communications for Open Education Global.
- Isla is a project and communications strategist, a Zimbabwean by birth and a Capetonian (South Africa) by adoption. She is passionate about open access to Africa’s knowledge and facilitating the growth of previously under-represented or ‘invisible’ communities to share their stories, experiences, creativity, and heritage with the world.
- In 2019, Isla was a member of the Advocacy Working Group for the completed Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030. In 2020, she researched, wrote, and published an analytical report on the motivations, needs, expectations, and philosophical intentions of Creative Commons’ Global Network members. The report is compiled from the thoughts and experiences of 188 Creative Commoners members.
- Before working within the WikiAfrica movement, she was the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Africa Centre, raising the brand and national profile of event-based arts brands. Before that, she worked as a writer to accelerate and support the growth of Africa’s film industry both as a skilled destination and a burgeoning creative force.