Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2024/jury
Wiki Loves Africa’s Winner selection process
The Jury process for the Wiki Loves Africa competition is elaborate and complex, as with all international photographic competitions. The process is sectioned into the efforts that are explained below. Please note that there are two separate, unrelated judging elements
- The national juries, and
- The international jury.
The national juries select images from their country categories to review and reward. The international jury process is entirely separate, with all images being reviewed, and a select few making the short list and final cut. We do not rely on the national teams or juries for their selections. This is intentional and due to the fact that not every country that contributes has a national team or jury process.
Image Checking
First, there is an initial effort during the competition timeframe and the month after to ensure that all images are categorized properly and are vetted for copyvios and other issues. This process (still ongoing) is undertaken by a few dedicated and tireless Wikimedia Commons contributors who are incredible (thank you Wilson,Anthere,Hillary, and Mermoze. You can see the extent of the work at this year's Image checking page.
National jury process
National organising teams select their own juries. Guidance with regards to this process is supplied in the National Judging Charter, however the management and organisation - and final results - are entirely independent of the International team. You can view the national winners here.
International Jury process
International Photography Jury
International Video Jury
First review 2024
This year, we again asked the community to participate in a clean up of the images submitted to Wiki Loves Africa 2023. The community members who participated were:
- Actveso
- Afek91
- Anthere
- RZadok
- Wilson
- Ogalihillary
- Green Wilfred Somoni
- Barke11
- Amuzujoe
- Albertoblaq
- Accuratecy051
- Islahaddow
- Adoscam
- Gilbert Ndihokubwayo
- Ngangaesther
- Kamboo19
- Numerik-3325
- Rwebogora
- Tesleemah
- Edward ambele
- Asamoah Daniel Kwame Oware
- Chirocca77
- Ibrahim Achiri
- NANöR
- 787IYO
- Serieminou
- Kwameghana(Bright Kwame Ayisi)
- IGANZE
- Yaw tuba
- Baname LARE
- Kibengado
- Harouna674
- jozef020
- Lebron jay
- Afimaame
- Meritkosy
This First Review round is to reduce submitted images to a manageable number for a more in-depth selection by the international jury. The First Review Team chose yes (to keep) or no (to drop) each image assigned to them according to the following criteria:
- Images must be relevant to the theme.
- The quality of the image - is it obviously blurred, pixellated, etc.
- The deletion of any selfies, very small images or blurred and unclear works.
Thank you so much for their work on this first round!