Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 in India

Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 - 1 February to 31 March 2025

Sharing India's intangible cultural heritage with the world

Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photographic competition to enjoy and celebrate the cultural diversity from around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate. Wiki loves Folklore in India is led by Wikimedians of Kerala UG and supported by Sahya Digital Conservation Foundation and Open Heritage Foundation.

In India, we are calling on people to dive into their photo archives or visit local sites with connections of Indian culture, folklore or storytelling and upload them to win!

The basic aim of the competition is to collect photos of human cultural diversity to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. The photos provided must match the theme, including, but not limited to festivals, material culture, dances, cuisine, clothing or daily life routine emphasizing on folk culture of India.

To find out about all the other national competitions taking place, visit the Wiki Loves Folklore 2025.

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Criteria

The jury will judge individual entries based on the following criteria (in no particular order):

Technical quality
Originality
Potential usefulness and overall value of the image (including its licensing) to the Wikimedia projects

Out and about

Please be respectful and considerate to your fellow photographers, and to others.
If you are photographing building interiors, stop straight away if you are asked to do so. Some places prohibit interior photography, but in others you may be allowed to continue if you ask for permission.
Do not trespass on private property (it is perfectly OK, though, to take photographs while standing in a public place such as the street).
Where possible avoid photographing vehicles, and particularly vehicle numberplates.
Please do not upload photographs of posters, noticeboards, signs, or anything else having text or two-dimensional images that might be copyright-protected. That applies even to text or images that are in a public place and that everyone else is taking pictures of. Ancient wall paintings in churches are fine, as are photos of stained glass windows of any date.

Contest Timeline

1 February: The contest officially opens, and uploading of photos begins.
31 March: Contest closes, uploading of photos ends.
Results Declaration: National results to be declared by end of April 2025. International results to be declared by end of July 2025 at Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 page on Commons

(Note: Result declaration is subject to changes and may be delayed subject to unexpected circumstances.)

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Images Stats

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Participate

Take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons
Make sure to enter your email address on your Wikimedia profile otherwise we may not have a way to contact you if you win one of the prizes.

Upload your photos! »

International Prizes

You can win the following prizes in the international contest:

1st prize: 500 USD
2nd prize: 400 USD
3rd prize: 300 USD
4th prize: 200 USD
5th prize: 100 USD
Top 10 Noteworthy Contribution Prizes: 50 USD each
Best Video prize: best oral storytelling 150 USD, best video storytelling 100 USD, Sustainable folklore video 100 USD
Best Audio prize: overall best 150 USD, best folklore podcast series 150
Top uploader prize for images: First Prize 250 USD, Second prize 150 USD Third prize 100 USD
Wiki Loves Folklore Postcards to top 100 Uploaders

Disclaimer: Prizes to be dispersed in a gift card or voucher format by International organizing team, not by Wikimedia Community India.