Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Nepal

July 1^st To July 31^th, 2023

Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Nepal

Wiki Loves Earth is an international photographic competition to promote natural heritage sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons).Nepal has already participated in Wiki Loves Earth 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. With the help of the competition we have around 26,000+ pictures uploaded under creative commons license. Everyone, be it a newbie or expert photographer can participate to this event.

Join us contribute free-licensed photographs of natural heritages in Nepal.

Participate

Find a natural heritage site from the given list, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:

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Find natural heritage

There are plenty of natural heritage sites in your region!

Capture Images

For examples: Here are the uploads from previous events.

Timeline

Make your date on calendar to join our offline events

Upload

Upload your photograph of natural heritages.

Winners

Please visit the winning photographs from this year's competition at the end of Sep, 2023.

Local Prizes

TBD

International prize

Winners will receive vouchers for Amazon or other online shops; the value depends on the participant's place.

Why to participate?

Wiki Loves Earth in Nepal is an online photography competition to promote the natural heritage sites of Nepal. This photography competition is part of the international annual photographic competition Wiki Loves Earth (WLE).

Competition rules

We try to keep the competition clean and simple to participate. There are only a few rules for photos to participate in the contest in Nepal. Let's quickly go through them. Every submission should be:
All entries must be your own work; do not manipulate original images and make sure that there is no visible watermarks.
All photos must be uploaded within July 2023, to be eligible
All photos must be licensed under CC BY-SA license
Participants must have an active email account, if the organizers wish to contact
Upload photos from the Natural Monuments in Nepal
Captions and description are required
Do not forget to add categories to your picture it will be helpful to everyone looking for your picture
Make sure that you are not uploading duplicate images

Next to that, there are a few practical rules:
Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikimedia Commons
Name your photos well
Use our Upload Button at the top OR Click here to upload images
Share your upload success on social media with our hashtags: #WLENepal #WLE2023.
And wait patiently for the results! All the best!

Organizing Team

1. Nirmal Dulal (Team Lead)
2.Nabin K. Sapkota (Outreach Coordinator)

Contact us

Please visit our facebook page for updates and other news.

The Jury

In July, you may upload pictures (old or new) as you want from the given monuments list that you have visited. At the end of the month, the national jury will evaluate the photographs and select the best 10 pictures of the natural monuments in Nepal to submit to represent in the international finale. If there are any doubts about the implementation of the rules, the jury decides.

Judging criteria

The jury will determine the winners of the international contest taking into the 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 international finale, will typically at least fulfill the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons. But feel free to submit images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.

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Statistics

Total images uploaded in Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Nepal
‎2,754

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