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Hello Colouriyo

Olaniyan Ishola Olushola|, Team Leader of Wikimedia Community User Group, Nigeria (WCUGN), told us that you would be willing to join the 2015 international jury of the c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa photographic contest. That would be lovely and we will be happy to get your help to decide on our winning pictures !

Here is a description of our project

Wiki Loves Africa is an annual contest that encourages entries from across Africa of media (photographs, video and audio) to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The theme for the 2015 photo contest is Cultural fashion and adornment. The contest runs from 1st October to 30th November 2015.

The WikiAfrica Wiki Loves Africa project is being managed by the non-governmental organisation the Africa Centre (www.africacentre.net) and is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. WikiAfrica activates a number of initiatives to support Wikipedians in Africa and the Wikimedia Foundation in its vision.

The project allows entries from all countries in the world but content provided should fit the 2015 theme. The contest is advertised through its website (http://www.wikilovesafrica.org), facebook account (https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica), twitter account (https://twitter.com/wikilovesafrica), traditional media with press releases, wikimedia-operated blogs and most notably a message run at the top of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia project pages into every african country during two months.

The submitted images are hosted here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2015
The project is expected to collect between 4000-8000 images.

The basic set of rules or "recommendations" to participate to the contest are:

• Rule 1: All photos must be taken by the person submitting them. They can be either self-uploaded or uploaded during a registered mass upload session.
• Rule 2: Upload can only be done in October and November 2015. But you can enter media that was taken at any time, even historical photographs (as long as you own the copyright on these photographs).
• Rule 3: Images must be free of watermarks or embedded signatures to be eligible. All entries will automatically be submitted under a free licence such as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0) (or in the public domain). Read more about the cc-by-sa license here.
• Rule 4: All eligible pictures will be categorised under Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2015, this will be automatically assigned during the upload process.
• Rule 5: Participants should enable e-mail on Wikimedia Commons so they can be contacted should their image be chosen for a prize.

Non-eligible content include

• Non-photographic works such as drawings or entirely computer-generated works
• Photographs that are already on Commons (i.e. 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.
• Any entries with watermarks or signatures embedded on the image or file will not be accepted.

The jury will be constituted of 5-7 people. Those will include wikimedians and photography professionals.
The jury will judge individual entries based on the following criteria (in no particular order):

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

The jury will select between 3 best photographs according to the above mentioned criterias. A 4th one will be chosen by the community. Practical details will be delivered in time. To give a rough idea of the timeline, selectionsof winners should be made by the full jury before mid or end of January 2015.

The prizes for the contest are the following ones:

• 1st prize: a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 + an Africa-published book + Mystery gifts from the Wikimedia Store + print of the participant winning picture
• 2nd prize: US$300 Amazon gift + an Africa-published book + Mystery gifts from the Wikimedia Store + print of the 2nd prize picture
• 3rd prize: US$200 Amazon gift + an Africa-published book + Mystery gifts from the Wikimedia Store + print of the 3rd prize picture
• Community Prize: US$200 Amazon gift voucher + an Africa-published book + Mystery gifts from the Wikimedia Store + print of the Community Prize

A member of the jury is volunteer and is not allowed to participate to the contest (but is welcome to provide images as long as they fit into the theme).

I hope you will be interested in joining the jury.

Anthere (talk)

Request for a short personal description

Hello Colouriyo

I would like to ask you to provide a very short description of yourself for the presentation of jury members on our website and on Wikimedia Commons. You may inspire yourself from the description of 2014 jury members available here. Please simply drop the text on my talk page. Thanks in advance ! Anthere (talk) 11:26, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

thank you. Anthere (talk) 14:35, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Email

Hello. I would need an email address to contact you along with the other jury members. Can you drop me a message at fdevouard **@** anthere.org please ? Thanks Anthere (talk)

Thanks for participating

Thank you for your participation in the Workshop for Students of Fountain University, 16 January 2016, hosted by Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. Your contributions are appreciated! Hope you will also join us at Fountain University for the second workshop on 28 January 2016. Wikic¤l¤gy^{t@lk to M£} 20:18, 17 January 2016 (UTC)