Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Uganda

Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Uganda

Wiki Loves Earth is an international photographic competition to promote natural heritage sites around the world through Wikimedia projects mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.


In Uganda, the Wikimedia Community Usergroup is participating for the fifth time and invites all interested volunteers to join this year's competition! There are a lot of natural heritage sites in Uganda; the goal of Wiki Loves Earth is to encourage people to take pictures of those natural sites and to put them under a free license so that others may access them through the Internet. The local competition will run from 15 May 2023 to 15 July 2023. (when local winners will be submitted to the international competition).

Local entries will be accepted starting on 15 May 2023 until 15 July 2023. You may upload as many pictures as you want of natural sites that you have visited. The pictures don't have to be taken in May but need to be uploaded during the competition time frame to be considered.

  • If you have pictures of natural sites stored on your computer since your last trip, this is a great opportunity to give them a second life in this year's Wiki Loves Earth contest.
  • The contest jury will begin selecting national winners on 30 July 2023 and will choose the best 10 pictures of the natural sites in Uganda, which will be considered in the international competition for a prize.
  • Besides winning prizes, your pictures could be used (by yourself or anyone else) on any Wikimedia project to contribute to the preservation of Uganda's natural heritage.

Timeline

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Start date:
15th May 2023
Upload period:
27 May 2023
End date:
15th July 2023
Selecting national winners : 25th July - 30 July 2023
Contacting national winners : 1 - 10 August 2023
Announcing and award of prizes : 15 - 20 2023
Submitting local winners to the international competition 30 August 2023
Meta/landing page updates and evaluation: 31 August 2023

Team members

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The competition will be run by volunteers from the Wikimedia Community Usergroup in Uganda.
  • Sandra Aceng - Project lead and Financials.
  • Alvin Ategyeka - Event Coordination
  • Geoffrey Kateregga - Jury Coordinator
  • Shafik-Comms and Marketing Coordinator
The above list will be updated as the competition progresses.
Jury members (TBA)
International prizes

Wiki Loves Earth 2023 Virtual Launch

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Date: May 20th, 2023

Participants during the virtual launch

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No. Name Usergroup Organisation
1. Phionah Boonabaana
2. Chapelle Musa
3. Bruno Ashimwe
4. George Levi
5. Atim Sally Ruth
6. Twinamatsiko Dickson
7. Chris Benard
8. Timothy Akolamazima
9. Vanessa Mulondo
10. Nakiganda Juliet
11. Emmanuel Oruk
12. ALVIN ATEGYEKA
13. Bruce Tushabe
14. Drake Tamale
15. Mubiru Shafik
16. Geoffrey Kateregga
17. Sandra Aceng
18. Baluku Brian
19. Micheal Kaluba
20. Okullu Yorobwam Odeke
21. NAKKAZI AIDAH ABIOLA
22. JOSEPH NJOROGE jozef020

How to participate

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Step 1: Find protected areas, natural monuments, parks, or protected areas to photograph near you!
 
 
Step 2: Take as many beautiful pictures as possible, try different angles. Even if the photo does not win a prize, it can help improve a selected Wikimedia project!
 
 
Step 3: Make a selection of the best images, describe, name, and add other relevant details.
 
 
Step 4: Log in to Wikimedia Commons. If you don't have an account yet Create one - and activate your email address.
 
 
Step 5 : Publish (Upload) your photos
Upload your photos

Where are the natural sites?

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Regions of Uganda

Legend

  National Parks
  1. Bwindi Impenetrable
  2. Kibale National Park
  3. Kidepo Valley National Park
  4. Lake Mburo National Park
  5. Mgahinga Gorilla Nationals Park
  6. Mount Elgon National Park
  7. Murchison Falls
  8. Queen Elizabeth
  9. Rwenzori Mountains National Park
  10. Semuliki National Park

  State Reserves

  1. Ajai Wildlife Reserve
  2. Bokora Corridor Wildlife Reserve
  3. Kabwoya Wildlife Reserve
  4. Katonga Wildlife Reserve
  5. Kigezi Wildlife Reserve
  6. Matheniko Wildlife Reserve
  7. Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve
  8. Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve
  State Nature Sanctuaries
  1. Karenga Community Wildlife Management Area
  2. Entebbe Wildlife Sanctuary
  3. Ngama Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary
  4. Otze Forest Wildlife Sanctuary
  5. Ziwa Rhino Rhino Sanctuary
  State Nature Sanctuaries
  1. Lake Opeta
  2. Lake Bisina
  3. Lutembe Bay
  4. Mabamba Bay
  5. Murchison Falls
Contact us through any of the following channels;
Useful links

Rules and selection criteria

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  • Every submission should be:
    • Self-taken and self-uploaded;
    • Uploaded between 15 May 2023 - 15 July 2023.
    • Freely licensed (This can be CC BY-SA 4.0 or any other free license, including CC0).
    • An identifiable nature monument or reserve.
    • Uploaded through the national campaign, automatically added with uploading via this link.
  • Participants can participate in the contest with multiple photos.
  • To be eligible to win a prize, participants in the contest must provide a way to contact them.
    • It is recommended that the participant has an activated e-mail address in his/her preferences and has the receiving of e-mails enabled.
    • If no way of contact is provided or no reaction is given, the photo(s) will stay part of the contest, but the uploader may not win a prize.
  • Additional International contest rules are published here.

The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2023

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The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2022

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The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2021

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The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2020

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The 2019 winning photos in Uganda

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Statistics

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576
Images Stats
purge – Data as of 03:06 am, 06 December 2024