Shubho Maha Saptami!
Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 in India has ended. We are happy to announce that we have 5862 uploads from 413 photographers, among which 73% were newly registered users. Till now, 4% images have been used in different 65 Wikimedia projects gaining 951,525 views. Highest number of uploads by a single photographer was 842. We think all these numbers are pretty decent for us. This year too, we have got photographs from all over the country, but most photographs came for monuments located in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat and so on.
In the background, we are rearranging the
list of monuments district-wise as we are getting feedback from
different participants that our current lists are somewhat difficult for amateur photographers to
navigate as
currently the tables are arranged according to heritage designation. which not everyone tracks well enough. This rearrangement will lead us to
create around 750 tables of monuments, which will look something like
this one, where we will keep all designated and non-designated monuments located in a single district under one table. Hopefully, these tables will be ready before next year's competition. The tables for Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Goa and West Bengal are already live.
We are now entering into the primary sorting process of the submitted photographs to be done by the organizer team, where those with obvious issues will be filtered out by 14 October, 2022 and the rest of the images will be forwarded to
the jury team, who will have 3 rounds and rest of October to finish the judging process. If everything goes well, we will declare the results by the start of November like previous years.
Thanks for all your contributions and uploads to the competition. Be ready with your camera for the Wiki Loves Food competition, which will be announced very soon!!
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group