Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Italy

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From June 15^th to July 15^th 2023

Wiki Loves Earth Italy 2023

Wiki Loves Earth Italy 2023 is the 6^th edition of Wiki Loves Earth in Italy.

Participants will take pictures of local natural protected areas, and upload them to Wikimedia Commons. The aim of event is to highlight the Italian natural heritage with the goal to encourage people to capture pictures and to put them under a free licence which can the be re-used not only in Wikipedia but everywhere by everyone.

Join us contribute free-licensed photographs of Italian natural heritage!

How to participate

1. Explore Italy
2. Choose a protected area
3. Take pictures
4. Upload them to Commons
5. Do it again and again

Upload your photos! »

Find places and topics

There are plenty of protectd areas in every region: find the closest to you or your holiday destination!

Take photos

Make as many and as good photos as you can, try different angles. Even if the photo doesn't win a prize, it may help Wikipedia!

Describe them

Write down what you photographed. Record the site's name, description, coordinates and date of photo.

Upload to Commons

Upload your images to Wikimedia Commons between 15^th of June and 15^th of July. Create an account, if you don't have one already.

Contact us!

For any question, don't hesitate to contact the organiser on the talk page (you can write in English, Italian or German).

Freedom of choice

In Italy, there are hundreds of protected areas and natural monuments you can choose from. And for every of them, you can choose as many topics as you want!

Why should I participate?

Participate in Wiki Loves Earth Italy and help Wikipedia document protected areas, natural monuments and everything inside them!

Because it's fun! By photographing and sharing images of protected areas nearby you, you can explore more about Italy and learn about its immense natural heritage. It's a nice challenge to improve your photography skills, and you can of course win some nice prizes.

The jury will select up to 10 images, and the winners will participate in the international selection.

N.B.: All pictures have to be uploaded from the 15^th of June to the 15^th of July. You can also upload images that you may already have taken in the past, for example during one of your travels to the country, but you can upload them only during the indicated period.

Competition rules

We try to keep the competition clean and simple. There are only a few rules for photos to participate in Wiki Loves Earth Italy. Let's quickly go through them.

Every submission should be:

• Self taken and self uploaded;
• Uploaded during the contest period (June 15^th - July 15^th);
• During the upload process, you give permission with a CC BY-SA license to re-use the image;
• Represent a topic that don't violate personal privacy or copyright.

Next to that, there are a few practical rules:

• You should have an activated e-mail address on Wikimedia Commons (otherwise how do we contact you if you have won?);
• If the photo gets deleted for any reason, it is automatically disqualified from the competition;
• You are responsible for following the law while taking and uploading the photo.

In the indicated period, you may upload as many pictures (old or new) as you want, at the end of which a jury will evaluate the photographs and select the best 10 pictures of Italy. The jury will then announce the winners during the month of September.

Judging criteria

The jury will determine the winners of the contest by taking into consideration the following criteria (in no particular order):

• Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective etc.);
• Originality;
• Usefulness of the image for Wikipedia.

Images that reach a top ranking of the final evaluation phase, will typically at least fulfil the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons. But feel free to submit many images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.

The Jury

Our jury will process the images through three rounds in July-September 2023.
At the end of this process, the jury will determine the Top 10 images of Italy, which will be sent to the international jury.

Local organizer

infoinformazioni.wiki

Statistics

Total images uploaded so far in
Wiki Loves Earth Italy 2023
‎1,530

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