Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 in the Philippines
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, the Philippines is participating again, and you are encouraged to submit any photos between 1 and 31 October 2024, from your personal collection, of monuments and built heritage recognized by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, its predecessors, and UNESCO. 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 the Philippines is organized by local Wikimedians in collaboration with the Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group, and Commons Photographers User Group.
Participate
Find a monument, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:
Find monuments
Take photos
Describe them
Upload to Commons
Contact us!
There are several ways to contact us:
- Write us on our discussion page.
- Communicate with us through Facebook
2024 images
Get inspired by the images that participate in 2024.
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 sharing your images of heritage, you can explore more about Philippine heritage and learn about it. It's a nice challenge to improve wikipedia articles with your photography skills, and you can receive a costumized trophy as a prize. The national jury will select up to 15 images that will represent the Philippines in the international round. These images will compete for the international awards. More information about the international competition is available on www.wikilovesmonuments.org .
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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 Peru. Let's quickly go through them. Every submission should be:
- Self taken and self uploaded;
- Uploaded during October 2024;
- 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 October, 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 the Philippines to submit to represent in the international round. The international jury will then announce the international winners in December.
Prizes
First Prize: Php 10,000
Second Prize: Php 5,000
Third Prize: Php 3,000
The top 10 national winners shall compete in the international round and will have the chance to win prizes photography related prizes.
In 2024, there are ten main prizes available for the international contest. These are listed below. All top-15 winners of the international contest will receive a certificate. On top of these, the following prizes will be awarded to the international winners in 2024:
Main prizes
1. Up to €2000 in in-kind prize*
2. Up to €1500 in in-kind prize*
3. Up to €1200 in in-kind prize*
4. Up to €900 in in-kind prize*
5. Up to €600 in in-kind prize*
6. Up to €600 in in-kind prize*
7. Up to €500 in in-kind prize*
8. Up to €400 in in-kind prize*
9. Up to €300 in in-kind prize*
10. Up to €300 in in-kind prize*
- This amount can be used for an editing or photography related prize or a donation to a Wikimedia compatible cause. The prize is selected by the winner and coordinators jointly. The winner will be able to propose the exact prize and vendor, pending approval by the prize coordinator (considering convenience, accounting and scope reasons). The value of the prize includes any customs or taxes that may need to be paid at the time of purchase to deliver the prize to the recipient. Any additional (customs) charges that are due later will be the responsibility of the recipient.
The Jury
Our jury will process the images in November. 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 will be composed of people with experience in art, photography, history and historical preservation.
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 round, 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.
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