Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 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 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 2024 in United Arab Emirates is the 4th edition of Wiki Loves Monuments in United Arab Emirates. The contest will take place from 1 October 2024 to 31 October 2024.
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 2024|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 United Arab Emirates, and ultimately in the world.
How to participate
Find a historic heritage or monument site from the given list, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:
If you think that your image was not captured in the areas mentioned in the list, you can still upload the images using the green upload button below. But don't forget to describe what's the subject and where the image was taken.
But be respectful with the FoP rules of UAE
Join us contribute free-licensed photographs of Emirati historical heritage!
Find monumental heritage or monument
Capture Images
Upload
Winners
Prizes
* Local prizes
- 1st: USD 200 worth gift voucher...
- 2nd: USD 150 worth gift voucher...
- 3rd: USD 100 worth gift voucher...
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 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 2024, to be eligible
All photos must be under a free license (Please review COM:FOP UAE also as UAE not granting commercial Freedom of Panorama for photographs of copyrighted architecture and public art.)
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
* ZI Jony
- Akbarali (Community Liaison)
- Bukky658 (Communication)
- Wasiul Bahar (Categorization)
Jury
Updates
Please visit our facebook page for updates and other news.
Statistics
Total images uploaded in Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 in United Arab Emirates
4
