Share Your Struggle 2021 (15 August 2021 - 15 September 2021) is a public photo competition on Wikimedia Commons. The goal of the project is to improve coverage of free usable media files related to various struggles, such as, natural disasters, health crises such as COVID-19 pandemic, social movements, conflict-torn areas, and any other humanitarian crises. The goal is not only to document crises, but also humanitarian efforts and acts of kindness that happen during such crises. The scope of the project includes images and video files. Please check the participation rules to further understanding.
Note: This campaign does not in any manner promote any of the above-mentioned or related forms of crises and any other forms of violence and harm. It is an effort to improve freely-licensed media related crises, such that people around the world understand them better. This is the first iteration of this campaign, and we would like learn from this pilot plan for further years, so feedback and ideas are very much welcome on the talk page.
What do you mean by "struggle"?
As mentioned above, the scope is quite open, here are a few examples of each of the above-mentioned:
Please note that the above mentioned categories and examples are indicative only.
Scope
Given this is the first time and a pilot, the scope is limited to India only and related to a specific incident or theme only i.e. everyday infrastructure problems such as potholes, are out of scope. Though they are still problems and cause people to struggle, they are not part of the scope for this iteration. Again, feedback and thoughts are welcome on the talk page.
For in-scope and out-of-scope images, check out the Example Images.
Participate
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For images: You can directly upload the files using the Upload Wizard linked below.For videos: All videos need to be converted to WebM format, which can be done using Video2Commons.
Please title the images in the following format Name of the Incident/Event - Specific Location - City, State Name - Month, Year - Serial Number (Example: COVID-19 vaccination at AIIMS Delhi, in June 2021 - 0001.jpg)
Please write detailed description of the file in description part to let people know about the food.
Files should have been created by you, or you own the exclusive copyright of files, and be without any signature or watermark or border. Please check the rules for more information.
If you are a professional photographer or a videographer or an organization and would like to upload or release a batch of files as part of the campaign, please contact the partnerships coordinator or email at shareyourstrugge2021gmail.com page for more information.