User talk:Wowan1978

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Wowan1978!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 08:02, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2020! Please help with this survey

Wiki Loves Monuments logo

Dear Wowan1978,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2020, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 200K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.

Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2020.

Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team, 08:29, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Архитектурный комплекс Даргавс.jpg, that you uploaded is now assessed as one of the finest pictures on Wikimedia Commons, the nomination is available at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Архитектурный комплекс Даргавс.jpg. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate, please do so at this nomination page.

/FPCBot (talk) 13:00, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out!

Please help translate to your language

Hi, Greetings

The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!

We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images here

Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.

We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.

Thank you,

Gaurav Gaikwad, Communication officer

Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:57, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2022! Please help with this survey

Wiki Loves Monuments logo

Dear Wowan1978,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2022, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 150K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 35 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.

Please fill in this short survey and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2022.

Kind regards, Wiki Loves Monuments team, 09:40, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 has started, Join us!

Hello Wowan1978,

Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team!

Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photography contest hosted on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from around the world, such as folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folktales, folk games, folk religion, mythology, and many more.

The campaign invites participants to document photographs, videos, and audios linked to folk culture and fit within the contest's theme. Through this campaign, you may become a part of a community dedicated to preserving our intangible culture, which has been brought and passed down for thousands of years.

How to Contribute?

The dates for the submission in the photography contest on Wikimedia Commons are from 1 February to 31 March 2023. Probably you are wondering how you can take part. It’s simple: grab a camera, record an image, video or audio under the folklore theme and start uploading ! To learn more about the rules, check out our Project page on Wikimedia Common. Here are the exciting prizes which you can win internationally.

International Prizes

• 1st prize: 500 USD
• 2nd prize: 400 USD
• 3rd prize: 300 USD
• Top 10 consolation prizes: 40 USD Each
• Best Video prize and best Audio prize: 150 USD & 150 USD
• Top uploader prize for images: First Prize: 100 USD, Second prize: 50 USD
• Wiki Loves Folklore Postcards to top 100 Uploaders
• Certificates and postcards to Local Organizers.

(Disclaimer : The above prizes will only be disbursed in form of gift card or voucher format only)

You can win both International prizes and your local Prizes simultaneously !

If you are interested in participating in the photography campaign, start photographing and collecting media of your local culture and get ready for the photo campaign happening on Wikimedia Commons. For more information about rules and prizes of the contest, refer here. For any questions, email us or join our telegram group

Warm regards,

Rockpeterson

Wiki Loves Folklore International Team.

Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 Georgia

Hello,

Congratulations! you won the contest "Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 Georgia". Your photo won the second competition place.

To get your prize, please fill out the form at link.

Thanks for your contribution! MIKHEIL (WMGE) (talk) 17:54, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello Mikheil. Thank you, I'm very glad. I filled out the form. Currently I live in Yerevan. And if necessary, I can gladly come to Tbilisi.

Здравствуйте Mikheil. Форму заполнил. Очень рад, что вы выбрали одну их моих фотографий. В данное время я живу в Ереване, и в случае необходимости для меня не составит проблемы еще раз приехать в Тбилиси. Vladimir Pankratov (talk) 18:24, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Heritage Guard Network: Questionnaire for photographers and volunteers

📸If you are a professional or amateur photographer, volunteer, or have pictured and uploaded your images for the international Wikimedia photo contests, we need your help!

✍️Within the project Heritage Guard Network, we are collecting responses from people who have experience photographing, especially in nature-protected areas or cultural monuments and faced some risks. This will help to sum up the final papers and answer the main questions that we asked for this seed project.

📜SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THE FORM BY 5TH SEPTEMBER: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJJ7sB3ToupXJ-M9d1Hy36-JTqxTfVzbhva3oXGOymjZEO-A/viewform

We welcome you to join our questionnaire, share it with your friends, and contribute to the important project devoted to cultural and natural heritage! We will share the final results with you afterward. OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk) 15:35, 26 August 2024 (UTC)