$2,000 Prize On Offer In The Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Contest

The 2022 theme for the Wiki Loves Africa contest is Home and Habitat. In line with this theme, organizers of the contest are calling for entries that provide visual representations of human and animal home habitats. They should be about lodgings, rooms, quarters, locations, nests, burrows, dens and caves, where people and animals rest, relax, recover, and reconnect with family and community.

Benefits

There will be prizes for top entries at both national and international levels. Prizes at the international level include the following:

• First Prize: $2,000.
• Second Prize: $1,500.
• Third Prize: $1,000.
• Traditional or culturally specific representations of houses, homes or living spaces: $750.
• Prize for best quality video (audio, visual quality and storytelling will all be considered): $1,000.
• Prize for special collection (a collection of images that tell a story): $750.
• All winners will get a pack of Wiki Loves Africa branded merchandise.

Entrants are expected to meet these conditions:

• Register on Wikimedia Commons and be contactable via email; they are encouraged to enable email on Wikimedia Commons so that they can contact entrants if they win a prize.
• Submit only photos that they have taken themselves; images must have their name, user name, or nom de plume on the uploaded file.
• They can submit photos that were taken at any time, provided they have the copyright to them or the photos are in the public domain, but photographs that are already on Wikipedia Commons and are re-uploaded will not be considered.
• Entries submitted must be in the public domain or under a free license.
• Images should not be less than 2MB, and should not have embedded signatures or watermarks.
• Pictures should be categorized under images from Wiki Loves Africa 2022 to qualify for consideration.
• Video files should be uploaded in a video format that is accepted on Wikimedia Commons (.ogg, .ogv, or .webm).

Applications will remain open until April 15, 2022.

The process of selecting winners will include three stages, which will culminate with the announcement of winning entries between May and June 2022.

If you would like to enter for the Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Contest, click here.