Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in the United Arab Emirates
Wiki Loves Monuments is an intense historic sites around the world through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). The competition is open to all. There are a lot of monuments and heritage sites in the United Arab Emirates, and the goal of Wiki Loves Monuments is to encourage people to take pictures of those monuments and to put them under a free license so that others may access them through the Internet.
Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in the United Arab Emirates is the 3rd edition of Wiki Loves Monuments in the United Arab Emirates. The contest will take place from 1 October 2023 to 31 October 2023.
In October, you may upload as many pictures as you want of monuments sites that you have visited. The pictures don't have to be taken in October, but must be uploaded during that month to be considered. Provide your photo with {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2023|ae}} template. At the end of the October, the contest jury will begin evaluating the photographs and will choose the best 10 pictures of the monumental sites in the United Arab Emirates, and ultimately in the world.
Find monumental heritage or monument
There are plenty of monumental heritage or monument sites in your region!
Capture Images
For example: Here are the uploads from previous events.
Upload
Upload your photograph of historical heritage.
Winners
Please visit the winning photographs from this year's competition at the end of October 2023.Prizes
TBA
- Special prizes
Why participate?
Help Wikipedia document and digitally preserve heritage of UAE.
Improve your photography skills.
Compete for both national and international competitions.
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 the United Arab Emirates. Let's quickly go through them.
All entries must be original photographs uploaded by their authors.
All photos must be uploaded from October 1st to October 31st 2023, to be eligible
All photos must be under a free license
Participants must have an active email account.
Lists of eligible sites are published here Photos of representative species (Monuments, Forts, Heritage sites, worhsip places etc.) taken in an eligible site also qualify if they are properly identified.
Captions and description are required
Make sure that there are no visible watermarks
All photos must have at least 6Mpx.
Next to that, there are a few practical rules and advice:
Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikimedia Commons
Name your photos well
Use the Find an object! button above or, if you already know the identifier of the depicted site you can Click here to upload the images
Do not forget to add categories to your picture – it will be helpful to everyone looking for it!
Contact the organizing team
* Akbarali
Jury
- Deepa Viji:Creative Artist
- Yaseen : Photographer
- sajinidas : Artist
- Jayaprakash : Journalist
Updates
Please visit our facebook page-TBA for updates and other news.
Statistics
Total images uploaded in Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in the United Arab Emirates
70