Commons:Wiki Loves ZEOs 2018/Rules

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The organizers of the contest are authorized to resolve any contingency not foreseen in these bases.

Basic rules

1. Participation is free and individual.
2. Anyone can participate, with the exception of juries. The organizers can not win prizes from the competition.
3. Participants must have a registered account in Wikimedia Commons. This account must have an associated email address (which is private and not visible by the organizers or juries) to allow communication.

Participating photos

1. Photographs of any Zamenhof/Esperanto Object (ZEO) can participate. Photographs of statues, memorial structures or plaques, municipal parks, churches, cathedrals and historic buildings are allowed. For more information, see the definition of ZEO on the main page of the contest.
2. The participating photographs must be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons during the month of August 2018 (UTC+0) together with the information required by the organization in the indicated format.
3. The participating photographs will be submited under a free Creative Commons license.
4. Each participant can only upload photos of their authorship to Wikimedia Commons.
5. The participating images can not contain signatures, watermarks, dates, hours, or any other type of brand.
6. There is no limit on the number of photographs that each participant can upload.
7. In the case of ZEOs that have an accessible interior (churches, houses, railway stations, etc.), photographs taken from inside or outside will be valid.

On the Jury

1. The jury is composed of three (3) members.
2. In general, the juries will use the following criteria when qualifying the photos: technical quality and composition of the image, creativity of the shot and illustrative utility of the photo.
3. The decisions of the juries are unappealable, except in case of irregularities that clearly violate these regulations.
4. In case any member of the jury declares that, for any reason, they can not fulfill their qualification task in the expected time, the organization may a) assign a replacement, or b) allow the deliberation to be made with the remaining members. In no case may there be less than two (2) people on the jury.

On the Prizes

1. Several photographs of the same participant can be finalists of the contest. However, each participant may earn a maximum of one (1) prize.
2. The organization will not be responsible for warranty issues (due to factory defects, misuse, damage during transportation, etc.) of the prizes, nor for the destination of these once they are handed over to the winners or to an delivering entity recognized.
3. The winners of the contest will have a maximum of three (3) weeks to send the organizers the data they request in order to make it possible to send the prizes. Once this period has expired, the prizes for which the aforementioned information is not available will be declared unawarded.
4. The jury can declare one or more prizes unawarded.