Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in the Philippines
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to promote historic sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate.
This year, the Philippines is participating again, and you are encouraged to submit any photos, from your personal collection, of monuments recognized by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, between 1 and 31 October. By submitting your photos to the competition, you share your heritage with the rest of the world to enjoy through the internet. We will explain below how to participate, what you can win and what monument sites are eligible. There are dozens of other countries that you can participate in, please check out the international website.
The contest in the Philippines is organized by local Wikimedians in collaboration with the Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group, Commons Photographers User Group, and Bikol Wikipedia Community.
Participate
Find a monument, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:
Find monuments
There are plenty of cultural heritage monuments in your region. Submit only photos of built heritage during the Spanish and American period here!
Take photos
Make as many and as good photos as you can, try different angles. Even if the photo doesn't win you a prize, it may help Wikipedia!
Describe them
Write down what you photographed. Record the site's name, the monument ID, description, and date of photo.
Upload to Commons
Upload your images to Wikimedia Commons between 1st and 31st of October. Create an account, if you don't have one already.Contact us!
There are several ways to contact us:
- Write us on our discussion page.
- Communicate with us through Facebook
2023 images
Get inspired by the images that participate in 2023.
Why participate?
Participate in Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition in the world, and help Wikipedia document monuments and heritage buildings.
Participating is fun! By sharing your images of heritage, you can explore more about Philippine heritage and learn about it. It's a nice challenge to improve wikipedia articles with your photography skills, and you can receive a costumized trophy as a prize. The national jury will select up to 10 images that will represent the Philippines in the international round. These images will compete for the international awards. More information about the international competition is available on www.wikilovesmonuments.org .
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 Peru. Let's quickly go through them. Every submission should be:
- Self taken and self uploaded;
- Uploaded during October 2023;
- During the upload process, you give permission with a CC BY-SA license to re-use the image;
- Contain a listed monument, which you have identified using the monument identifier (see elsewhere on this page);
Next to that, there are a few practical rules:
- You should have an activated e-mail address on Wikimedia Commons;
- If the photo gets deleted for any reason, it is automatically disqualified from the competition;
- You are responsible for following the law while taking and uploading the photo.
In October, you may upload as many pictures (old or new) as you want of monuments that you have visited. At the end of the month, the national jury will evaluate the photographs and select the best 10 pictures of the monuments in the Philippines to submit to represent in the international round. The international jury will then announce the international winners in December.
Prizes
No cash prizes shall be awarded this year. The top 10 winners shall compete in the international round and will have the chance to win prizes photography related prizes.
The Jury
Our jury will process the images in November. At the end of this process, the jury determines the top 10. If there are any doubts about the implementation of the rules, the jury decides. Our jury will be composed of people with experience in art, photography, history and historical preservation.
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 round, will typically at least fulfill the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons. But feel free to submit many images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.
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