Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2024 in Bangladesh

Wiki Loves Earth Bangladesh
1 May – 30 June 2024

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Wiki Loves Earth is an international photographic competition to promote natural heritage sites around the world through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate. There are a lot of natural heritage sites in all participating countries including Bangladesh. The goal of Wiki Loves Earth is to encourage people to take pictures of those natural sites, and to put them under a free licence so that others may access them through the Internet. To achieve that, an international contest will take place from 01 May 2024 to 30 June 2024. This page introduces the Bangladesh part of this competition which is going to be organized by Project Korikath.

How to participate

Wiki Loves Earth Bangladesh 2024 handbook for participants. Please read this pdf for detailed instructions. You can read the pdf from this link also.

Steps

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1. Visit the list of protected areas of Bangladesh and find the area where you took your photo, click the blue upload button beside your target area's name. If the area isn't in the list, use the blue upload button at the very top of the page.
2. You'll be prompted to upload your file from your local storage. Once the upload is successful, click continue.
3. In the next page, select "This is my own work and ..." and "This is entirely my own work" as the answer to the respective questions. Select "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International" as the license. Select "This work provides knowledge, instructions or information to others" as the purpose of the work. Click the blue Next button.
4. On the next page, you’ll have to provide details that describes the media files the best. The first is title, provide a suitable title, for example, “chestnut-tailed starling representatives in Satchari National Park, Bangladesh”
5. Provide a few lines of description that elaborates the context of the media file.
6. Select the date when you took this photo or recorded the video or audio. Categories and location will be pre-filled.
7. Click the blue “Publish Files” button. It will take a few moments to publish the file.
8. And you’ve successfully submitted a media file for Wiki Loves Earth 2024! Congratulations!

Rules

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To take part in the Wiki Loves Earth contest, a submission should:

• Be self-taken

  All entries must be original photographs uploaded by their authors. Photos uploaded by anyone else than the author (even with proper permission according to Wikimedia Commons rules) are not accepted.

• Be self-uploaded during the contest period;

  You are also welcome to submit photos you may have taken in the past. What matters is that photos must be uploaded during the contest period (01 May 2024 to 30 June 2024)

• Be under a free license;
• Contain an identified natural monument / natural park / protected area etc.;

  Such a list of protected areas of Bangladesh can be found here. If you don't find the area in the list, use the blue lonely upload button at the very top of the list page. Project Korikath will separately evaluate whether your photos fall in the scope or not.

• Have at least 2Mpx.
• A participant should have an activated e-mail address via Preferences of their account.

Criteria

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The jury will judge individual entries/ the uploaded photos based on the following criteria (in no particular order):

• Technical quality
• Originality
• Potential usefulness and overall value of the image (including licensing) to the Wikimedia projects

General tips

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• Please be respectful and considerate of all fellow photographers and all other participants.
• If you are photographing the interiors of a particular building, stop immediately if asked. Some places prohibit indoor photography, but in others you may be allowed to proceed if you ask permission.
• Do not trespass on private property (it is perfectly OK, though, to take photographs of a private place, while standing in a public place such as the street).
• Where possible, avoid photographing transport vehicles, especially their number plates.
• Please do not upload images of posters, billboards, banners, signs, or anything else having text or two-dimensional images that might be copyright-protected. This applies even to texts or photos that are in a public place and that everyone else is taking pictures of. Ancient wall paintings in churches are fine, as are photos of stained glass windows of any date.

Timeline

• May 1st: The official opening of the competition and the start of uploading photos.
• June 30th: Contest closes, uploading of photos ends.
• End of July: Announcement of Local winners.
• September-October: International evaluation process.
• November: Announcement of international winners.

(Note: Result declaration is subject to changes and may be delayed subject to unexpected circumstances.)

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