Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 in Brazil
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to promote historic sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate.
This year, Brazil participates again, and you are encouraged to submit any photos of monuments in Brazil between 1 and 30 September. By submitting your photos to the competition, you share your heritage with the rest of the world to enjoy through the internet. We will explain below how to participate, what you can win and what monument sites are eligible. There are dozens of other countries that you can participate in, please check out the international website.
The contest in Brazil is organized by the Wiki Movimento Brasil.
(Se quiser ler as instruções em português, clique aqui)
Participate
Find a monument, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:
Find monuments
Take photos
Describe them
Upload to Commons
Contact us!
Éder Porto - eder.porto
wmnobrasil.org
Why participate?
Participate in Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition in the world, and help Wikipedia document monuments and heritage buildings.
Participating is fun! By photographing and sharing images of heritage nearby you, you can explore more about Brazilian heritage and learn about it. It's a nice challenge to improve your photography skills, and you can of course win some nice prizes. There are prizes for the five best pictures; and prizes for the 10 most valuable contributors --the contributors who help us the most fill the content gap on Brazilian heritage and a special prize for the best picture of the state of Espírito Santo, in the context of the Wiki Loves Espírito Santo project. All prizes are vouchers and of course also eternal glory! The national jury will select up to 10 images that will represent Brazil in the international finale. These images will compete for the international awards. Last year, the winner was a Brazilian monument. More information about the international competition is available on www.wikilovesmonuments.org.
You can also upload images that you may have taken already during one of your travels to the national competition of that country. Check if your travel destination participates in Wiki Loves Monuments this year.
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 Brazil. Let's quickly go through them. Every submission should be:
- Self taken and self uploaded;
- Uploaded during September 2022;
- During the upload process, you give permission with a <CC BY-SA license to re-use the image;
- Contain a listed monument, which you have identified using the monument identifier (see elsewhere on this page);
Next to that, there are a few practical rules:
- You should have an activated e-mail address on Wikimedia Commons;
- 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 September, you may upload as many pictures (old or new) as you want of monuments 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 monuments in Brazil to submit to represent in the international finale. The international jury will then announce the international winners in mid February, 2023.
Prizes
Category Best pictures
- First place - best picture: 2,500 BRL
- Second place - best picture: 2,000 BRL
- Third place - best picture: 1,500 BRL
- Fourth place - best picture: 1,000 BRL
- Fifth place - best picture: 500 BRL
Category Most valuable contributors
- Most valuable contributors (most number of previously undepicted monuments illustrated): 200 BRL (to ten participants!)
Category Best picture of Espírito Santo
- Best picture of Espírito Santo: 2,500 BRL
The Jury
Our jury will process the images through four rounds during October. At the end of this process, the jury determines the top-10. If there are any doubts about the implementation of the rules, the jury decides. Our jury includes:
- Bruno Buccalon, researcher in the History of Photography, researcher at imagineRio
- Éder Porto (coordinator), developer, wikimedian and designer
- Giovanna Fontenelle, jornalist, historian and Program Officer of GLAM and Culture at the Wikimedia Foundation
- Jani Pereira, biologist and master in animal behavior
- Marcelo Siqueira, publicist, cultural producer and photographer. Special Advisor at GECRIA/SECULT-ES
- Mike Peel, radio astronomer, wikimedian and photographer
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 many images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.
Because of the high number of images we have received the last years, members of the team of the user group Wiki Movimento Brasil will help to preliminarily separate the images. They are: CCosta (WMB), EAzzellini (WMB), JPeschanski (WMB) and SSoster (WMB).
More about Brazilian monuments
We are considering monuments for this competition every item that is officially recognized as a monument plus items registered by any institution or online reference about cultural and historical heritage. The official recognition is called in Portuguese "tombamento" and may have happened at the international, national, state or municipal level, but is not necessary. You can navigate to the monuments by two means: The map application or by the automated and dynamic lists of monuments here.