Wiki Loves Africa in Zambia

Wikipedia Celebrates People at Play!

in the Wiki Loves Africa competition

Lusaka, Zambia 1 February, 2018 – The Wiki Loves Africa photographic and media competition is

back for its fifth year. This year, Chabota Kanguya, Chalo Chatu, Manic Creatives, The Wikipedia

Community in Zambia and global organisers Wiki In Africa are pleased to announce that Wiki Loves

Africa celebrates PLAY! as the central theme for the annual visual celebration of Africa’s

cultural diversity on Wikipedia.

The competition runs from the 1st February - 1st March 2019 and entries are welcome from

anywhere on the continent and beyond. The theme Play! encourages the submission of visual

representations depicting scenes from across the African continent of joyful and serious games,

sport, and recreation in the form of board or mental games, physical fun or contests, playful

interactions, theatrical and musical performances, etc. It is intentionally broad and open to

interpretation to fully encompass the wide range of voluntary, culturally-defined activities

in the pursuit or recreational pleasure and enjoyment across the multiple countries and

peoples on the African continent. Quality images and media that cover people, objects,

animals and environments in the act of play or dedicated to play on the African continent will

be accepted. In addition, there are two specific prize categories that call for images or media

depicting Women in Sport and Culturally specific or traditional formal forms of play,

recreation or events.

Every year, Wiki Loves Africa challenges the relentless negative depiction of “Africa”,
by encouraging Africa’s amateur and professional creatives and cultural practitioners to celebrate
this continent by submitting photographs and media to the world’s largest and most widely
accessed knowledge resource, Wikipedia. Over the last four years, the Wiki Loves Africa
contest has encouraged the donation of over 40,000 photographs from 5,000 contributors to
Wikimedia Commons for potential use in Wikipedia articles and other Wikimedia projects.
Images submitted through Wiki Loves Africa are viewed over 13 million times on Wikipedia, every
single month.

While the photographs or media should visually depict something that has happened on the
continent of Africa, anyone can contribute relevant photos from anywhere on the globe. A
series of fun, participatory events are planned by local volunteer teams across Africa. Events
vary from introductory workshops and photographic excursions to upload sessions. They are
aimed at encouraging an ongoing pride in local heritage and cultural practice, as well as to
foster a culture of contribution to the internet to shake up the single story of Africa.

In Zambia, 3 events are happening in Lusaka during the course of the competition. Planned events include introdcution to the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia commons a wikipedia edit-a-thon and also introduction to the Chi-Chewa wikipedia

Currently there are 14 local teams taking part in this focused way. The hosts of these
interventions range from established communities in Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana,
Nigeria, Mali, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Uganda to brand new country teams in Benin, Botswana,
Guinea, Senegal and Zambia.

Wiki Loves Africa is activated by the Wikimedia community that created Wikipedia in
support of WikiAfrica movement. The competition was conceptualised and is managed by
Florence Devouard and Isla Haddow-Flood of Wiki In Africa as a fun and engaging way to
rebalance the lack of visual representations and relevant content that exists about Africa on
Wikipedia. The competition is supported by Ynternet.org. Its activities are funded by the
Wikimedia Foundation and supported in-kind by a host of local partners in individual countries.
The images donated are available for use on the internet and beyond, under the Creative
Commons license CC BY SA 4.0.

How do people enter? What else can be won? What events are happening where?
These can be found on the website – bit.ly/WikiLovesAfricaPlay – or on the
Facebook page.

USEFUL INFORMATION:

Key Links:

www.wikilovesafrica.net

www.wikiinafrica.org
- Competition page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019
or http://bit.ly/WLAPlay      

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesAfrica  

- Twitter: http://twitter.com/WikiLovesAfrica   

Theme page for inspiration: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019/Theme

Local Events: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019/Local_events  

Media release by Wiki In Africa

For Zambia media queries contact:

          Isaac Kanguya

                Cell: 0976409603

                E-mail: Icem4k@yahoo.com

For international media queries contact:

English: Isla Haddow-Flood

Cell: +27 76 077 3135

Email: isla @ wikiinafrica.org

French: Florence Devouard

Cell: +33 645 60 62 77

Email: fdevouard @ anthere.org

NOTES FOR THE EDITOR:

LOCAL ORGANISING TEAMS

To see what’s going locally and to contact the teams, please click here.

PRIZES:

• To be announced
  
  

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE: IN 5 EASY STEPS

1. Take some photos ...

This is the fun part! You can enter media (photos, video clips or audio files)
that shows people working, making things, and doing their jobs across Africa.
Think rare and unusual perspectives of both ordinary and extraordinary jobs.

2. Select the best!

Your media could go onto Wikipedia to illustrate an article. Choose photos
and media where the subject matter is clear and in focus.

3. Register on Commons

You have to be registered on Wikimedia Commons to enter the competition.
Make sure your email is enabled so that we can contact you if you win! www.commons.wikimedia.org

4. Enter your photos!

Use the Upload Wizard to enter your photographs. Scan the QR code
below to go directly to the upload page. Remember to describe the photo and
add relevant categories to the image.

5. What now ?

Now you are registered on Wikipedia, the fun doesn’t stop here!!
There are many things you can still do:

1. Take more amazing photos and enter them!
   
   
2. Add your photos to the relevant article on the Wikipedia in your language.
   
   
3. If an article doesn’t exist, then you might want to consider writing an article about that subject.
   
   

RULES OF THE COMPETITION

• Media can only self-uploaded or uploaded during a registered mass
  upload session by the person who took that image.

• Media can only be entered from the 00h01 on the 1st February until 24h00 on
  the 1st March 2019. The media can have been created at any time; e.g. historic photographs

can be entered as long as you own the copyright.

• All entries will have to have the following licence: Creative Commons
  Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0).

• All eligible pictures must be categorised under Wiki Loves Africa 2019.
  This is assigned during the upload process.

• Any entries with watermarks or signatures embedded on the image or
  file will be disqualified.

• Participants must register on Wikimedia Commons and have
  e-mail enabled to be eligible for prizes.

ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN THE COMPETITION

About Chalo Chatu

Chalo Chatu is an online English-language wiki-based free encyclopaedia dedicated to documenting the entire Zambia only and also try to preserve the history and pride of Zambia covering historical events and current events, notable public figures, companies, organizations, websites, national monuments and other notable key features of Zambia. It was founded by Jason Mulikita in 2016.

About Manic Creatives

Founded in 2015 Manic Creatives is a digital marketing agency helping brands 
flourish online was incorporated in 2015 as a Limited Company under the laws of Zambia.

About Wiki In Africa

Wiki In Africa is a non-profit organisation that is based in South Africa. It is the
financial and legal structure that operates global initiatives in support of the
WikiAfrica movement. The organisation is currently lead by Iolanda Pensa,
Florence Devouard and Isla Haddow-Flood.

During 2019 it is working on WikiFundi, WikiChallenge African Schools,
WikiAfrica Schools, Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Women. www.wikiinafrica.org  

About WikiAfrica

WikiAfrica is an international movement that takes place on the African
continent and beyond. It encourages individuals, interested groups
and organisations to create, expand and enhance online content about Africa.
This involves motivating for the representation of the continent’s
contemporary realities and history, its peoples and its innovations on the
world’s most used encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. WikiAfrica is not owned by one
organisation and it belongs to all people and organisations contributing to its scope.

In its various guises and hosted at several institutions (including Lettera27,
Africa Centre, Ynternet.org, Short Story Day Africa, Wikimedia CH and Wiki In Africa),
the WikiAfrica movement has consistently instigated and led multi-faceted
innovative projects. These projects have activated communities and driven
content onto Wikipedia. Examples include Share Your Knowledge, #OpenAfrica training
Courses and Toolkits, Kumusha Bus (in Ethiopia and Ghana), WikiEntrepreneur
(in Ethiopia and Malawi), Kumusha Takes Wiki (Cote d’Ivoire and Uganda), Wikipedia
Primary (funded by SUPSI), Wikipack Africa, WikiAfrica Schools, WikiFundi, WikiChallenge,
Wiki Loves Women and Wiki Loves Africa.

www.wikiafrica.org

About Ynternet.org

Ynternet.org Foundation was created in 1998 on the invitation of
Swiss Confederation to facilitate, identify and promote new learning
culture within digital environments. In 2006 it changed its status from
association to foundation, as an independent body within civil society.
Based in the university campus of Battelle (Geneva, Switzerland), it is
serving public interest in multilateral projects and private-public partnership.
60-80 contributors each year, including experts, social entrepreneurs and
volunteers, are contributing to Ynternet.org mission of promoting responsible
behaviours in digital environment. Ynternet.org has been successfully audited
for its activities (2013 - 2015), at European level, both as coordinator and
partner on two separate EU projects.

www.ynternet.org

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the nonprofit charitable organisation
that is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of
free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full
content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation
operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including
Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.

www.wikimediafoundation.org

Chabota at Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town South Africa

Katherine and Isaac

It my first time I was travelling out of the country, all thanks to the South African Wikimedia Chapter. Flying in big iron bird was a wonderful experience it being my first time flying in the airbus a320 felt normal. Wikimania Is the biggest gathering of Wikimedians (contributors of Wikimedia Foundation Projects). The theme for Wikimania 2018 was “Bridging the Knowledge Gaps: the Ubuntu Way Forward”.

Morning of 17th July 2018 my filght was at 12 and i was ready by 08:30 my cousin Peter Kapisa came to take to me to the Airpot I was so happy i could feel it in my bonesand the clod leaving my body still i could belive that i was going out of the country. Before we could get far dad called to tell me that wait for him and so we did the time he got to where we were i moved into his car and so we went to airport while in the car he satred to give me safety tips which came in handy longstory short I landed safely in Cape Town but my bag didnt come so i had to check with airline and the told me that it wasnt cleared at customs and so i had to wait till 22hrs or the following day. With that in mind i called bob from South Africa to find out how my movement will be like from the airport he told me to get an uber and i didnt have uber in the phone so i had to get a regular taxi which was R250 the taxi driver was very frendly his name was Voyo. Got the hotel checked got to my room and my roommate from Tanzania Iddy had already gotten there and was about to sleep i got in the room we had a chat until mid night.

DAY ONE.

We went to main hotel Southern Sun Cape Sun Hotel we where at the Stay easy at stay easy hotel. when we got the main hotel myself Iddy and Carolyne got ourselves regestered while that side Carolyne learnt that she was supposed to at the other hotel the pre-conference under whose know knowledge and so after our registration me and iddy wanted to go into the hack thon but we decided to find out what was happning at the hotel when we got there we where to told it was invitation only and so Iddy checked his mail box and found that we where in the right place the orgniers there told us that we had to stay untill the day for together with the two days to come and we agreed to that. As we got in the room we where told to join and group when I got to my group i found people in deep covervastion and i was wondering what is going here but it didn't take too long for me to be on the same page with everyone. At the end of the day we had to write so points that we where going to look at the next and i did write something not know what i was geeting myself into.

DAY TWO.

Sherry, Isaac, Iddy and Amy

On day two we had recap of what we talked about the previous day and the note i wrote as one of the points to look at was picked and so i had to give feedback on the point i made and it sould be a talking point. In our group we had good chat and we two action plans Create local communities/forum to gather views on access to internet infrastructure and community knowledge and also Create local communities/forum to gather views on access to internet infrastructure and community knowledge.

After everyone had signed up fo the action plans the last remarks where made and the  pre-conference was closed. We had a meet later and we to see fish at the Aquariums and also for the closing party at the same time.

DAY THREE.

Wikimania 2018 was then offically opened.
That eveing of day 3 i had a chat with Woubzena Jifar who is the Rapid Grants Program Officer, Community Resources for the foundation  in one of our chats she was willing to help me set up something for the foundation in Zambia she then later introduced me to Asaf and later that night we visited Two Oceans Aquarium for the opening party. It was really amazing and the memories of the beauty I saw that night, I will forever cherish we had a Walk through the exhibits and view sea life while sampling local street foods. This is the time i had a chat with Amy from Indonesia we who i met at the pre-conference had multiple chats together and i remember that i spent most of the time with her as shared our experience to each other and i had a number of chats with Erina Muhame from Uganda Dhani from indonesia Ananya Mondal from India. From time the conference offically started i lost track of time time cause i was too busy connecting with new friends. I spent most of my time talking to people or should i say managment the people behind the wikimedia foundation.

DAY FOUR.

On day 4 I attended more talks and presentations starting with Africa's Wikipedias one of the major challenges that was discussed during the conference was the misrepresentation of Africa and women on Wikipedia. This really opened up my mind that i have a lot of work todo since other countries like South Africa, Indonesia, Nigeria just to metion a feww would organize projects to help improve and add content not only on big Wikis like the English Wikipedia but on their local Wikis as well i saw that am not the only who is facing such problems and so for Zambian articles to well represented i had to do something as soon as i got home this my goal number one to open up my fellow Zambians with to grow together and we bilud each other and after lunch i attended A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners + Wikidata Query Tutorial - part2 which was presented by Asaf this was just me wanting to get more info on what is Wikidata. Later that night i met with Asaf Bartov who was busy with the hardware donation program we had a long chat i told about my way of editting using my phone as we where talking he introducted me to the Wikimedia hardware donation program he recommended that i apply for one to reduce the work load i had due to the fact that i was using my phone to edit wiki, to create and so on. 

DAY FIVE.

On the last day Myself and Iddy with McKensie Mack went to the beach for some site seeing just to enjoy the beauty of Cape Town its sad we didnt have time to go to Table Mountain. The moment we got back to the hotel we went and picked up our tickets for the closing ceremony upon collecting Asaf sent me a mail that a laptop (chrome book) was available and so when i met him he told me to apply for documentation and i did fast forward during the closing ceremony Asaf metionted my name as the Zambian wikipedian and also anounced that the laptop is ready and if anyone see me should teel me to go pick it up i was at the back moved by what was happening i couldnt belive any of these events. So after that i went to meet Asaf and he gave me the laptop (Chromebook) and even introduced to the gentleman that donated it. Then we went to the closing party well Wiki sure do knows how to through a party we had fan there.

What more can I add, you have see it all or should i say read it all. I had a really good time at Wikimania and I am so grateful to all the friends especially Bobby Shabangu for openong my eyes and the South African wikimedia chapter for making it possible for me to attend this even, not forgetting Iddy my roommate who made me laugh very funny and crazy guy. Making it to this year’s Wikimania gave me an experience of a lifetime and a stepping stone for me to be able to become an affilate member of the foundation and all I can say is thank you to God and the Wikimedia Foundation for such an opportunity.