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Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Contest in Nigeria 2025

Welcome to the 2025 edition of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Contest in Nigeria This annual contest organized by the Wikimedia community in Nigeria is organized by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria with the aim of to bring together members of the Nigerian Wikimedia community to use digital media such as photos to improve Wikipedia articles lacking images and enhance readers experience. This campaign also looks to provide an opportunity for editors to sharpen and gain new editorial skills.

How to participate

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  1. Check whether you're eligible. Eligibility rules have been revised in the 2025 edition and participants are required to have an account that's at least a year old.
  2. Find an article that needs a photo. There are many ways to do this. Some tips.
  3. Select the appropriate image on Commons. Click here to search for the image using the correct title or category. There are several ways to do this. See this simple media reuse guide. Additional tips.
  4. On the article page, click Edit and insert the image selected in Step 3, including a brief caption in the WP's language. Check the display position in "Preview" and make any necessary changes. Then click on "Publish changes".
  5. Include the hashtag #WPWPNG in the edit summary of all articles improved with images.
  6. Please be mindful of the image syntax! If you are going to add images to the infoboxes in articles, the syntax is a lot easier — just the filename. You may also participate by creating new articles for quality photos.

You can find topics related to Nigeria here: Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Nigeria

Campaign rules

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Images must be used between July 1st to August 31st 2025.
There is no limit to the number of files one can use. There are, however, different categories of prizes (see below).
The image must be published under a free use license or as public domain. The possible licenses are CC-BY-SA 4.0, CC-BY 4.0, CC0 1.0.

Participants must be a registered user on any Wikimedia project. Sign in or Create a new account on Wikipedia (You can create an account on any language Wikipedia, for use in your own WP and on all Wikimedia projects). The list of all languages of Wikipedia can be found here.
The image caption and description must be clear and be suitable for the article.
Participants must include the hashtag #WPWP and #WPWPNG in the Edit summary of all articles improved with images. For example: "+image #WPWP, +image #WPWPNG"

Campaign timetable

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  • Start for entries: 12:00AM 1st July, 2025
  • Weekly Check-in/Banter: 28th July, 2025
  • Weekly Check-in/Banter: 4th August, 2025
  • Office Hour: 9th August, 2025
  • Weekly Check-in/Banter: 11th August, 2025
  • Weekly Check-in/Banter: 18th August, 2025
  • Weekly Check-in/Banter: 25th August, 2025
  • Deadline for entries: 11:59PM 31st August, 2025
  • Results announcement: Before 30th September 2025


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Prize categories

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Winning Prizes for user(s) with the most image use on Wikipedia articles by editors from the Nigerian Wikimedia Community:

To be eligible:

  • you must add #WPWP and #WPWPNG as a hashtag to your edit summary.
  • for this year's edition, only edits made on Nigeria-related articles/pages will be considered as eligible.
  • you must have registered your account before January 2025.
  • you must have made at least 200 mainspace edits to any language Wikipedia before 1st June 2025.

Prize categories (first 3)

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Winning prizes for the user(s) with the most image usage on Wikipedia articles

  • 1st prize ― ₦100,000 Gift Voucher + Certificate
  • 2nd prize ― ₦70,000 Gift Voucher + Certificate
  • 3rd prize ― ₦50,000 Gift Voucher + Certificate

Consolation prizes

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4th place to 10th place - Digital certificates

Project Team

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For more enquiries, reach out to:


Participants

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Kindly note that participants in other WPWP contests asides from the international one will not be eligible. To participate you just need to sign up on the participant's section.

Thanks

To add your name, edit this section and type '#~~~~' below without quotes.

  1. Pharouqenr (talk) 16:33, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Utibe Noah Silas (talk) 10:20, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Bembety (talk) 10:20, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Abdurra'uf (talk) 17:47, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Umar2z (talk) 13:20, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Atibrarian (talk) 09:00, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Abdsomod (talk) 09:00, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Philip Emeka (talk) 12:30, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Halima Waziri (talk) 12:10, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Celetex (talk) 13:53, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Utibe Noah Silas (talk) 17:41, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Timzy D'Great (talk) 07:38, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Mirah50 (talk) 08:14, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Olaoye Sheu Ibrahim (talk) 15:34, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Obedmakolo (talk) 16:49, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Neme244 (talk) 12:48, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Yusuf Muhammed Thanni (talk) 22:40, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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