Commons:Wiki Loves Schools
Wiki Loves Schools is a campaign to collect and add high-quality, freely licensed images and other media of educational institutions around the world to Wikimedia Commons. By doing so, we aim to enrich school articles on Wikipedia and create a comprehensive visual record of schools for everyone to use.
For this first edition, we are specifically focusing on schools in the state of Kerala, India.
Goals
- Enrich Wikipedia: Add visual context to school articles, making them more engaging and informative.
- Build a Visual Database: Help create a valuable, open-access collection of educational resources for researchers, students, and historians.
- Celebrate Education: Showcase the unique architecture, campus life, and events of schools in your community.
Take photos
Click photos of Schools in Kerala.
Upload to Commons
Upload images from 16 Sept 2025 to 31 March 2026, under a free license.
Describe them
Give School Name and school code as title and description.5,015
Images uploaded so far..
( Click to update)
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What to Upload?
- Exterior photos: Front views, unique architectural details, and wide shots of the school building and campus.
- Interior shots: Photos of classrooms, libraries, laboratories, gymnasiums, and auditoriums.
- Student life: Images of students in school activities, sports, or assemblies (with proper consent where required by local laws).
- Artifacts: Images of historical plaques, trophies, or unique items related to the school's history.
- Videos: Short videos showcasing school life or events.
Rules & Guidelines
- All media must be Self-taken and self-uploaded
- Photos must be of a real school (LP/UP/HS/HSS or related activity of thing).
- All uploads must be under a free license (CC-BY-SA 4.0 is the default).
- If photographing people, be mindful of local consent laws and respect privacy.
- Photos contain proper title and description for the media file (Must specify the institution name in caption / description)
- Add school code while uploading the file. If the image is not associated to a a particular school, then give 99999 as school code for such images.
- Timeline : 16th September 2025 - 31st March 2026
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