Apply for Commons: Wiki Loves Africa 2025

Theme

• Farm to Plate
  • The theme Farm to Plate calls for the submission of media (photos, audio, video) that portrays fields, agricultural practices, farm products, farm machines, people farming, food transformation and processing, cooking, restaurants, dressing on plates, cooking material and the entire process (or a segment of it) that in consists of transforming farm produce into food.

Categories

• Photography
• Media (Video, Audio, Graphics, Photo Essays)

Funding Information

• Photography:
  • 1st Prize: USD 1000
  • 2nd Prize: USD 900
  • 3rd Prize: USD 700
  • Wilson Oluoha Prize: USD 1000
• Media (Video, Audio, Graphics, Photo Essays):
  • Audio Prize: USD 700
  • Narrative video Prize: USD 1,000
  • Reportage video Prize: USD 1000
  • Clip video Prize: USD 200
• Disclaimer: Prize money may be dispensed in a gift card or voucher format.

Eligibility Criteria

• Everyone is welcome to participate.

Ineligibility Criteria

• This transformative 16-week journey begins with an Immersive experience in Boulder, Colorado, followed by virtual programming that keeps you deeply engaged with like-minded peers as you strengthen your leadership and scale your impact.
• 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.

For more information, visit Wikimedia Commons.