Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 in Ghana

Wiki Loves Folklore 2023

Wiki Loves Folklore (WLF) is an annual international photographic competition held during the month of February, organised worldwide by Wikipedia community members with the help of local Wikimedia affiliates across the globe. Participants take pictures of local folk culture and intangible heritage in their region, and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.

Aim

Aim

The aim of the event is to document folklore traditions around the world with a goal to encourage people to capture media of their local Folk culture, and to put them under a free licence which can then be re-used not only in Wikipedia but everywhere by everyone.

Jury

• Musahfm

Participants

To add your name, click on edit, at the end of the last published name (UTC), click and press enter to move to new line. Type four tilde symbols (~~~~ ) and publish.

1. Musahfm (talk) 15:26, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Timeline

• Start date: 1 February 2023
• End date: 31 March 2023

Contest Category

• Wikipedia Articles Translation
• Wikidata items improvement
• Upload of images to wikimedia commons

Prizes

Prizes shall be given in the form of gift vouchers as follows:

• Top Wikipedia article contributor GHS300
• Top Wikidata contributor GHS300
• Highest photo uploader GHS250
• Best Photo uploaded GHS200
• Top female contributor GHS200

Competition Articles

Rules

• Create/Expand an article to minimum of 3000 bytes.

• The article should not be machine translated

• The Article should be created or expanded between 1st to 30th September, 2022

• The article must be translated to a readable quality in Kusaal language

• References must be aligned as how the translated article is.

How to Participate in the article translation

The articles in the table are in English

Open the Englsh articles and translate the content to the best of your ability to its corresponding Kusaal version. Please this might not be word to work translation but at least closest in meaning.

Links to Articles

S/N	English Articles	Kusaal Article	Contributors
1	Maize
2	Cassava
3	Tomato
4	Carrots
5	Onions
6	Mushroom
7	Okra
8	cabbage
9	Watermelon
10	Mango
11	Banana
12	Pineapple
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14
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16
17
18
19
20
21
22
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24

Wikidata Items Contest

Rules/Règlement

Wikidata items must have the following:

1. English Label -->Uncle
2. English Description -->father's younger brother
3. Kusaal Label -->
4. Kusaal Description -->
5. At least 3 references.dictionnaire-moore-Francais-English
6. Instance of (P31)

Improve the following items

1. Maize
2. Cassava

Photo Upload Contest

Rules

• Capture images or media of local folklore, festival celebrations, funerals, weddings, clothing, food, places, and anything of cultural significance

• Images must be of high quality.

• You must be the copyright holder or have the permission to upload the image for the contest.

• Upload images on or before 31st March, 2023.

• Images downloaded from social media are not allowed

List of potential Folklore places you may visit for images to upload

1. Mud houses
2. Funeral events
3. Weddings
4. Chop bars (food types, local catelary etc)
5. Local blacksmith centers (tools and equipment, blacksmitting process etc)
6. Shea butter processing centers (women processing and pictures of outstanding nature
7. Chief palace (lmages of local items in palaces, the palace etc)
8. Basket weaving centers
9. Pottery production centers
10. Smock weaving centers
11. Local farms.
12. etc

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