Dear All
The Wiki Loves Africa team are pleased to announce the forth and final winner of the Wiki
Loves Africa 2016 prize. The Organizers Prize goes to the Nubian Flute Player by Ahmed
Emad H (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nubian_flute_player.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nubian_flute_player.jpg>).
The Community Prize was cancelled for the 2016 competition as there was not enough
participation from within the community. Of those that did vote, a few seemed to be
concerned with tampering with the vote. After a long and hard decision and time spent
going through the contributions of each voter, the organisers decided to not award the
Community Prize at all this year. This was tough decision made as the bid to influence the
vote is not within the spirit of the Wikimedia movement. We felt that, as the stewards of
the WMF’s grant, we could not justify awarding the prize under this dark cloud.
As the organisers of the competition we have awarded the Organisers Prize to Nubian Flute
Player by Ahmed Emad H as it displays excellent framing and use of colour and light, as
well as beautifully depicting on a rarely seen corner, in this case Nubia in Egypt, of
this vast continent. Further, the collection of work that Ahmed Emad H contributed to
Commons during this time has provided a wonderful spotlight on singers and musicians in
Egypt:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Ahmed_Emad_H
You can view all the winners here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Winners
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Winners>
Congratulations to Ahmed!! Thanks again to the Jury for their initial hard work in
determining the first 3 winners.
warmest
Isla and Florence
Isla Haddow-Flood
Co-project Manager
Username: Islahaddow
