Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 in Serbia
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Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to document and promote historic sites around the world through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate.
This year Serbia is participating through the month of October 2024. By sharing your photos under a free license, you help document our history and share it with the rest of the world to enjoy through the internet, and get a shot at winning a prize! We will explain below how to participate, what you can win and what monument sites are eligible.
If going out to photograph, be sure to 'take necessary health precautions and follow the guidance of national, and local officials.
Participate
Find a registered cultural heritage site and upload a photo you have taken of it to the Wikimedia Commons:
Prizes
1st: TBD RSD
2nd: TBD RSD
3rd: TBD RSD
The top-ten photos will all receive a certificate and be submitted to the international competition.
Why participate?
Help Wikipedia document historically significant buildings and historical sites.
A nice challenge to improve your photography skills.
Compete for prizes in both the national and international competitions.
Competition rules
There are a few rules for photos to participate in Serbia contest.
- Photos must be your own work.
- Photos may have been taken at any time (including prior to this event), but must be uploaded during October 2024 to be included in the contest.
- During the upload process, you must release your photo under a free license that allows for re-use of the image (CC BY-SA license 4.0 or similar)
- Photos must be uploaded through this link in order to be properly tagged for the contest (contributors who are familiar with the proper tagging procedures can manually tag their photos if they wish).
- The photo must feature a site that is identifiable and registered as a historical or cultural site by some authoritative organization (whether on the federal, tribal, state, or local levels). Examples would be the National Register of Historic Places or your local historical society. When you upload your work, be sure to provide the name of the historical site, any identifiers, and the list it is on.
- Digital manipulations must not deceive the viewer. Correcting flaws, some color adjustments, and other minor edits are acceptable.
Next to that, there are a few practical rules:
- You should have an activated e-mail address on Wikimedia Commons so that you can be contacted if you win.
- 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 addition, if you plan to go out to photograph sites, be sure to take necessary health precautions and follow the guidance of national and local officials. At the end of the October, the national jury will evaluate the photographs and select the best 10 pictures of the historic places in Serbia. The top 3 will receive monetary prizes, and the top 10 will receive certificates, and be submitted to represent in the international finale.
Copyright notes
Please, keep in mind very important rules, before you upload any photo. All photos have to be you own work. All photos will be checked and compared for any match with photos available all around the web. If some photo isn't your own work, it will be permanently deleted from Commons.
More details...
The National Register of Protected Cultural Places has over 2600 sites listed on it! Every year there are a few additional sites inscripted to the Register.
For a historic place to count for the contest, it must be recognized by an authoritative organization as a cultural heritage site. Explore your local community and see what's out there!
Contact us!
There are a few ways to get in touch:
- Post on our talk page
- Email us at TBD
- Reach out to us on [TBD Official Site]
Organizing Team include:
- Wikimedia Community from Serbia
Winners 2023
Last year's WLM winners
Judging
Criteria
Through the month of November, a jury from Serbia will go through and judge all photos to determine the top-10. The following criteria are used (in no particular order):
- Composition
- Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective etc.);
- Originality;
- Usefulness of the image for Wikipedia.
- Note: Photos of all cultural heritage sites are valued, but photos of more uncommon and less-photographed sites will do better in judging.
If there are any doubts about the implementation of the rules, the jury decides.
Jury
Our jury will process the images through rounds during November. At the end of this process, the jury determines the top-10. Our jury will be composed of individuals with backgrounds in art, photography, history and historical preservation, and the Wikimedia Commons.
Photo in header by Valekd, CC BY-SA 4.0.