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How to include uploaded images (mistakenly) not through campaign uploader

I had uploaded some images by mistake not through :https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wlf_2025
Total around 104 files from

File:Ulto Rath, popularly known as Bahuda Yatra 202.jpg To File:Ulto Rath, popularly known as Bahuda Yatra 304.jpg

Can you pls include those files in the competition under- Images from India. Sorry for the inconveniences.

--Goutam1962 (talk) 07:32, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, I think you need to go through all these images and add {{Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 country|India}} to the description and {{Wiki Loves Folklore 2025}} above the categories manually. Красный ^{wanna talk?} 21:21, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Goutam1962 and Красный, I will try to fix this (adding the WLF templates) … – Aristeas (talk) 08:45, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done For this kind of edits, VisualFileChange is very helpful. It’s just a bit complicated to use … If you have further problems like this one, just leave a note on my talk page and I will try to fix it for you. Best, – Aristeas (talk) 09:04, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much.@AristeasAristeas and @Красный. Regards Goutam1962 (talk) 04:40, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Aristeas and @Goutam1962 as well as @Красный, you forerunners enlightened me how to improve my skills (; a tiny token of appreciation to three of you! Arigatow, thank you, Omotecho (talk) 01:11, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gravestone (often with symbols and text) and cemetery photos- are they acceptable for WLF 2025?

"Folklore" definition in Wiktionary includes the word "Tradition". Tradition = "A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family ..."

I would like to add gravestone (often with symbols and commentary) and cemetery photos. Is that acceptable as a cultural subject within WLF 2025? Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 20:59, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I noting here that 7+ days without any response to my question. -- Ooligan (talk) 01:56, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Are gravestone part of your folks culture? ✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 18:06, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, @Tiven2240.
Again, here below is my question with related comment. (I don't know if you read it, but it is located above your question.) ---
"I would like to add gravestone (often with symbols and commentary) and cemetery photos. Is that acceptable as a cultural subject within WLF 2025?" Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 20:53, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
See reply here:User talk:Tiven2240#Still waiting to answer to my question posted on February 13th.
I'm noting here the response to my question (after waiting two weeks) found on @Tiven2240's talk page. -- Ooligan (talk) 08:16, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What qualifies as folk culture?

I’m wondering how old culture needs to be to qualify as folk culture. I live near Detroit, Michigan with a vibrant African American, urban culture. Some of it is old enough to be modern history, eg: Motown music. To me, this is folk culture in the making, but I also realise, prima facie, this is pop culture.

So-called folk cultures are not static either, eg: “authentic” Chinese cuisine in the U.S. may bear little resemblance to what the dish was in China a century ago, if it even existed. (Chicken, for example, is a fairly recent introduction to many diets). A form of cultural imperialism happens when people from a dominant culture don’t allow the traditional producers of folkways to change with the times; keeping the exotic exoticised so the dominant have exciting travel destinations.

I don’t mean to be contrarian, but what is “folk?” Is it “old?” Is it “authentic?” Is it “traditional?” Is it anything someone from a technologically advanced society considers “exotic” and desirable because it’s different in the right way?

Before anyone says I’m just being difficult, know I’m an ethnic minority with a cultural studies background and these “othering” questions are often applied to me. I love culture, learning about others and my own, and sharing what I learn. 2001:1970:5F19:5000:0:0:0:FB73 18:45, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Where I upload the Images?

I want to know where where it should update the images Usumanxs (talk) 16:08, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Usumanxs use this link to upload your media to the campaign. ✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 18:08, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Easter vs Resurrection Sunday

These events are two separate celebrations. Easter is the pagan celebration of fertility. Resurrection Sunday is a religious celebration of the Day Christ arises from the dead. The two words have been used interchangeably but they are not the same. Christmas the word is used interchangeably for pagan and religion. I think these are neutral descriptions if you are looking for either word. thank you JustChecking137 (talk) 12:59, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]