Hello Everyone!

Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage. It's concurrent contest, Feminism and Folklore [1] is organized on Wikipedia to improve the coverage of women in folklore and intangible heritage and folk culture of different regions, including folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology and many more.

The campaign is targeted at protecting the world’s intangible cultural heritage. In the 2020 edition, content about women in folklore and mythology has been created in 18 different languages covering the regional personalities and mythology with over 4000 articles.

Feminism and Folklore [2] provides an opportunity for the local folklore enthusiasts and conservationists to document their local rituals, folk cultural activities, and songs improving the coverage on various cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far.

In the last two years, we have been able to document around 27000 media from over 125+ countries. In 2019, we had a successful international edition that ran from 1-28 Feb 2019 where we got 7121 images from 1700+ participants from over 120 countries in the theme pertaining to the festivals and ceremonies from different parts of the world. In 2020, the competition elicited 19,052 image submissions, 144 videos, and 13 audio files, the campaign documented folk culture of over 125 countries around the globe. Over 1496 photographers took part and around 20 affiliates collaborated in the project.

How to contribute?

Starting 1 February through to 31 March Wikipedians, Wikimedians, folks, Glam advocates and Cultural enthusiasts will help bridge the knowledge gap on documentation on the theme folklore and Women in Folklore. If you are interested in participating in the photography campaign, then start photographing your local culture and get ready for the photo campaign happening on Commons. For more information check out project page [3].

Who to Participate?

This is open to all open evangelists with interest to the aforementioned. Contact me for any questions.

Best regards,

Joy Agyepong

Program Coordinator

Wiki Loves Folklore 

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feminism_and_Folklore

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Feminism_and_Folklore_2021

[3] 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore

[4]grant link 1

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Feminism_and_Folklore_2021

[5] grant link 2

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki_Loves_Folklore_Wikipedia_2021