Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in India
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Wiki Loves Earth is an international photographic competition to promote natural heritage sites around the world through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate. There are a lot of natural heritage sites in all participating countries including India. The goal of Wiki Loves Earth is to encourage people to take pictures of those natural sites, and to put them under a free licence so that others may access them through the Internet. To achieve that, an international contest will take place from 1st June 2025 to 31st July 2025. This page introduces the India part of this competition.
Join us contribute free-licensed photographs of natural heritages in India.
Participate
Find a natural heritage site from the given list, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:
Find natural heritage
Capture Images
Upload
Winners
Local Prizes
TBD
International prize
Winners will receive vouchers for Amazon or other online shops; the value depends on the participant's place.
Why to participate?
Wiki Loves Earth in India is an online photography campaign to promote the natural heritage sites of India. This photography competition is part of the international annual photographic competition Wiki Loves Earth (WLE).
Campaign rules
We try to keep the campaign clean and simple to participate. There are only a few rules for photos to participate in the contest in India. Let's quickly go through them. Every submission should be:
All entries must be your own work; do not manipulate original images and make sure that there are no visible watermarks.
All photos must be uploaded within July 2025, to be eligible
All photos must be licensed under CC BY-SA license
Participants must have an active email account, if the organizers wish to contact
Upload photos from the Natural Monuments in India
Captions and description are required
Do not forget to add categories to your picture, it will be helpful to everyone looking for your picture
Make sure that you are not uploading duplicate images
Next to that, there are a few practical rules:
Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikimedia Commons
Name your photos well
Use our Upload Button at the top OR Click here to upload images
Share your upload success on social media with our hashtags: #WLEIndia #WLE2025.
And wait patiently for the results! All the best!
Organizing Team
1. Manoj Karingamadathil
2. Irvin Sabastian
3. Sneha C
4. Ranjith Sajeev
5. Tony Antony
6. Jinoy Tom Jacob
7. Jameela P
8. Siji R
9. Arunesh Varade
10. Are you interested to join the team ? feel free to write wikimedianskerala
gmail.com
Contact us
Please visit our facebook page for updates and other news. Telegram Group
The Jury
In June-July, you may upload pictures (old or new) as you want from the given monuments list that you have visited. At the start of the Aug month, the national jury will evaluate the photographs and select the best 15 pictures of the natural monuments in India to submit to represent in the international finale. If there are any doubts about the implementation of the rules, the jury decides.
1. Sneha C., Assistant Professor (Forestry)
2. David Raju, Naturalist/Photographer/Author
3. Chinmayee Mishra, Indian Wikimedian
4. Dr.Prashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas, Public Health Researcher & Citizen Science)
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 finale, will typically at least fulfill the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons. But feel free to submit images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.
Statistics
Total images uploaded in Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in India
9,611
Analysis
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