Commons: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
edit15th May 2023 |
27 May 2023 |
15th July 2023 |
Team members
edit- 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
- See details on the Wiki Loves earth 2023 page
Wiki Loves Earth 2023 Virtual Launch
editDate: May 20th, 2023
Participants during the virtual launch
editNo. | Name | Usergroup | Organisation |
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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
editStep 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 |
Where are the natural sites?
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Rules and selection criteria
edit- 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
editThe top 10 Images in Uganda in 2022
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A group of Kob ewes moving through the savannah grassland at Murchison Falls National Park
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Rothschild's giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) keeping company of each other as they move through the wilderness of Murchison Falls National Park
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Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Bwindi Impenetrable
Photograph: User:Thomas Fuhrmann
The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2021
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The footprint of what the locals refer to be the foot of Kigere who is believed to have been escaping an eruption of the volcano
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The Amabere ga nyinamwiru as they are known locally are stalacites and stalagmites in the nyakasura falls
Photograph: Alvinategyeka -
The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2020
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Murchison Falls, top of the falls. Impressive: the water thunders down with great force.
Photograph: Susanne Elsig-Lohmann -
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These rocks at fort Partiko, built in 1872 were used as prisons for captured slaves.
Photograph: Jim Joel -
Children on a foot path heading to one of the villages in Kidepo Valley National Park
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The rocks surrounding the fort were used for long jump exercises by soldiers under Sir Samuel Baker's army at Baker's fort, 1872 Uganda.
Photograph: Jim Joel -
Kyambura Gorge also known as the valley of apes, is a forest in queen Elizabeth national park
Photograph: Jim Joel -
This rock was used as a watch tower to look out for enemies and arriving trade caravans at fort partiko baker's fort in 1872, Uganda.
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The largest of the primates of Kibale National Park in western Uganda. Here wildlife lovers trail habituated families of chimpanzees as they feed on fig fruit, their major food suppliers.
Photograph: Byekwaso Blasio -
Kingfisher live in the wooded savannas of Africa where it feeds primarily on insects. But this particular one was caught on film carrying a reptile (skink) to its nest to feed its young one. It was also observed carrying toads and frogs to the nest.
Photograph: Byekwaso Blasio -
The 2019 winning photos in Uganda
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Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) - - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
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