Hello everyone

Wiki Loves Africa 2016 is now closed ! Congratulations everyone !

I think a couple of people went to bed with blurry eyes from final uploads and I hope Georges recovered a decent internet connexion to finish his uploads today. Christine and I finished fixing the tagging issue I discussed with some of you yesterday by email (we'll talk more of this later to see how to better deal with tagging next year).

So... in short... current grand total is 7817 pictures. * Ivory Coast 1147 * Cameroun 852 * Nigeria 765 * Tunisia 731 * Ghana 638 * Ouganda 526 * Egypt 615 * Kenya 385 * Morroco 317 * South Africa 315 * Algeria 281 * Tanzania 190

It is to note that Morroco and South Africa were not specifically supported within the WLA framework, and it is lovely to see those figures for them.

Beyond figures... I am pleased to say that the quality of the pictures is clearly on the rise. - Increase of skills within the local teams ? - Better photographic material ? - More deals with professional photographers ? - Better visibility of the contest bringing in more diverse participants ? - More partnerships bringing in pictures ? There are clearly several reasons to explain that. But in any cases... great job.

I enjoyed seeing pictures from partners who emerged from the WLW project, such as https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gogeafrica Or a winner of last year contest still around : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mustapha_BRAHIM_DJELLOUL

So really... awesome job everyone !

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What's next ?

1. Voting... jury... will be managed this year by Isla. If you want to help in setting up the jury tool, the wiki pages for the community vote etc. get in touch with her !

2. Reuse and categorization of images Some teams have planned events to categorize and integrate images in Wikipedia articles (great). If it is not the case of your local team... please consider doing some of it all by yourself. It is NOT hard.

To get the ball rolling... I made Asaf dream come true... the Dance article did not really have any dance video featured. He was using that example when talking to audience to illustrate the fact there was still a LOT to do on Wikipedia. Well... he will not be able to use that argument anymore... the Dance article now has a dance video. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance&diff=prev&oldid=763... And the Kuduro article is illustrated : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuduro

So what about you ? What about going through a category of images uploaded during WLAf and making sure to illustrate... 5 articles ? 10 articles ? More ?

Asaf probably still think there is a lot to do...

(but he probably needs to explain more about how to use Glamify... uh)

3. Quality

Please consider doing as Tunisian and Algerian teams do and work toward having your best pictures recognised as quality pictures. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quality_images_from_Wiki_Loves_A...

In particular those teams who complained during WikiIndaba that Africa UserGroups did not enjoy international recognition. Just do it :) Right Shola ?

In particular as well those teams who would like to see one of their photographer be added to the Best Photographers on Commons pool in the future. Poke Georges... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Meet_our_photographers

4. Documentation Please do remember to send your documentation for expenses to Elisabeth

5. Brainstorm from WikiIndaba I reported the notes here : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016#Notes...

Please feel free to add any further comments over there.

Cheers

Anthere