Welcome the international winners of the annual photographic competition
devoted to natural heritage sites Wiki Loves Earth 2024!
- The main top-20 winners in the landscapes and macro category:
https://wikilovesearth.org/
- Winners of the special nomination "Human Rights and Environment":
https://bit.ly/3OVETOs
- Winners of the special nomination "Video": https://bit.ly/49GajBJ
Let’s come together during the award ceremony to celebrate this year’s
incredible winners and their stunning contributions to the beauty of nature!
When: 19th December at 14:00 UTC (check your local timezone:
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1734616800) online in Zoom.
Want to attend?
Register now by filling out this short form, and we’ll send you the
invitation link: https://forms.gle/3WdwD6m9FMHJFGTW6
Don’t miss this special event — see you there!
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Best regards,
*Olesia Lukaniuk*
Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth International
Dear Wiki Loves Earth community!
If you organise one of the Wikimedia photo contests or are interested in
licences and copyright, we welcome you to attend our upcoming event!
🔐Webinar *"Licences and Copyright in Wikimedia photo contests"* will be
held on *October 25th at 14:00 CET* online in Zoom.
Antanana, a Ukrainian Wikipedian and administrator, will talk about
important components in organising your local Wikimedia photo contest (s):
licences and copyrights in the process of showcasing your local winning
(and not only) images.
📌Register by *24th of October*: https://bit.ly/4dxW0Q0
Check this webinar with *your local time* here:
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729857600
Before the webinar, you will receive the link to access the call via email.
The webinar will be recorded and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons & Wikimedia
Ukraine’s YouTube.
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Best regards,
*Olesia Lukaniuk*
Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth International
Hi all,
In our multilingual wikiverse we depend for many things on translations.
Many people speak other languages, but still many people can't.
Today I was wondering how well the name of the photo contest Wiki Loves
Earth was translated in Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16695775>
into various languages. Here an overview:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Romaine/Wiki_Loves
Still in many languages a translation is missing. If you speak a certain
language, please add a translation by clicking on the pen icon. Also Wiki
Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Africa labels are listed.
In the large photo contests many translatable templates are used to make
Commons as much as possible available in the local language of the users.
You understand English, but many people don't. To make it easier to
understand and join, we often use templates that have been translated. Many
of these templates are only translated for a few languages, which is
restricting who can understand a text or not.
You can help by adding more translations for more languages:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine/Wiki_Loves_Earth/Languages
Greetings,
Romaine
In both lists only
Dear WLE community!
If you are a local organizer, a professional or amateur photographer,
volunteer, or have pictured and uploaded your images for the international
Wikimedia photo contests, we need your help!
✍️Within the *Heritage Guard Network* project (read more here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Guard_Network>), we are
collecting responses from people who have experience photographing,
especially in nature-protected areas or cultural monuments, and who have
faced some risks during their photography.
This will help to sum up the final papers of our research and answer the
main questions that we asked for this seed project.
📜*SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THE FORM BY 20TH AUGUST:* https://bit.ly/4c3eyqv
*If you are a local WLE organizer*, we would be very thankful if you shared
this form in your channels or among your local contest participants. Their
experience would be very useful for us!
We welcome you to complete our questionnaire, share it with your
participants, and contribute to this important project devoted to cultural
and natural heritage!
We will share the final results with you afterward.
Thank you so much!
*Best regards,*
*Heritage Guard Network team*
Hi, dear WLE community! We have an exciting news for you! The most awaited
moment of the international annual photographic competition devoted to
natural heritage has come. We are delighted and proud to present the* top
20 best images of Wiki Loves Earth 2023*!🏆 This year, the contest was held
for the *10th time*, lasting from *May 1st to August 31st*.
We had a record number of participating countries, which reached* 50*. Many
countries that started WLE last or a few years ago continued organizing the
contest in 2023. And* 11 *of them joined the contest for the first time
this year.
Overall, we received more than *61,700 submissions* from over *3,300
uploaders*.
*42* countries submitted their local winners and moved to the international
level, and we have got *492* local winning images. Thanks to our team of *13
jurors*, we have the final results!
The international winners represent two categories —* landscapes* and
*macro/close-up*.
You can check out the complete list of winners in a blog
post👉*https://wikilovesearth.org/
<https://wikilovesearth.org/>*
Many congratulations to all the winners for their contribution and time
dedicated to picturing the beauty of our planet and spreading awareness
about natural heritage sites all around the world! And follow us on our
channels: *Instagram* - https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesearth/
*Facebook* - https://www.facebook.com/interwle
*Twitter* - https://twitter.com/WikiLovesEarth
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Best regards,
Olesia Lukaniuk
Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth
Dear WLE community!
Great news! *Wiki Loves Earth 2023* international photo contest has
started![image:
🥳]
*13 countries *started their local competitions 6 days ago and we have the
first uploads!
[image: 👉]You can check participating countries here:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/.../Participating_countries
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.m.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki…>
.
[image: 👉]And check out uploaded images so far:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/.../Category:Images_from...
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.m.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki…>.
And also we are announcing the *special nomination “Human rights and
environment”*![image: 🌍]
In 2023, Wiki Loves Earth international photo contest again supports the
initiative WikiForHumanRights, which partners with the Wikimedia Foundation
(WMF) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Its
goal is to raise awareness of nature protection and human impacts on
nature. When we protect the environment, we also protect the fundamental
human rights we all have — rights to water, life, food, housing, and other
fundamental rights that rely on a clean, healthy environment.
📸And this year, we accept photos not only from the countries where the
main contest is going but also from *the whole world*!
Technically, participants would be able to upload images through the
“wle-special” campaign.
Check out this page for more detailed information such as criteria for
images, examples of images, important notes, how to upload, etc: [image: 👉]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../Human_rights_and...
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2023/Human_righ…>
.
Also, you can check the winners of the previous year’s special nomination
here: [image: 👉]https://diff.wikimedia.org/.../wiki-loves-earth-2022.../
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdiff.wikimedia.org%2F2023%2F01…>
.
Good luck to each local team and each participant!
Let’s love Earth together[image: 💚]
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Best regards,
Olesia Lukaniuk
Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth
Dear WLE 2023 organizer!
Are you in process of preparing your local contest, which is starting soon?
Or you are just thinking about joining or not joining?🤔
You still have time! Already 32 countries are in the active stage of the
preparation and you can be the next one!
Don’t hesitate and come to our Wiki Loves Earth 2023 Webinar for local
teams!
Meet the community, listen about preparation, reminders, and upcoming
announcements, ask your questions, and share!
When? 26.04.23, 3 PM CET.
Where? https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82789497855
For whom? For those, who are organizing or just planning to organize WLE
2023.
Waiting for you all and make your unique contribution to the Earth’s
heritage!🌳
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Best regards,
Olesia Lukaniuk
Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth
Dear WLE community!
This year in order to help our contest be more shared and inclusive for
everyone, we're inviting experienced WLE volunteers to become *regional
ambassadors* to help out the international organizing team.
The main responsibilities of the ambassadors are the help with translations
and communications in order to reach out to more regions, where English is
not so widespread.
So, meet some of our ambassadors!
-
Georges Fodouop (French-speaking region) — is an ambassador of the
Wikimedia Foundation's product team for francophone communities, also a
member of the MCDC (Movement Charter Drafting Committee), and secretary of
WikiFranca. He has worked on various Wikimedia projects across borders and
is a co-founder of the Wikimedians of Cameroon user group. He was
Wikimedian-in-Residence for the Wiki Loves Women project and has
coordinated international projects such as Wiki Loves Earth, and Wiki Loves
Africa and has facilitated French language training for numerous campaigns
including #1Lib1Ref, AWiM.
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Mohammed Bachounda (Arabic-speaking region) — a volunteer on Wikipedia,
organizes many activities for the Arab Wikimedia community, such as photo
contests locally and in the Arab world, and the Wikipedia education program
in Algeria. With a group of Algerians and Arabs, launched a wiki MOOC, to
teach Wikipedia editing in Arabic, which 10,000 people have registered for.
Organizer of the WikiArabia conference.
Also, we have other great people helping us with engagement across the
globe and we would be glad to see more people from other regions! You are
welcome to apply to represent your region and make your unique contribution
to Wiki Loves Earth 2023! Feel free to contact us at *wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua
<wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua>*. Here you can check the full international
organizing team:
*https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2023/Organizers
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2023/Organizers>.*
If you have any questions regarding this, feel free to approach us.
Thank you and stay tuned for the WLE 2023 and upcoming updates!
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Best regards,
Olesia Lukaniuk
Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth
Hi Folks,
We encourage each and everyone of you to create a program submission. You can submit an interactive workshop or panel, a lecture, a short lighting talk or a poster for our dedicated poster session. Submissions are catered to both onsite and online (live or pre-recorded) or a hybrid combination. We at the Core Organizing Team would like to see a program submission related to community initiatives such as Wiki Loves Earth.
The theme for this year's Wikimania is Diversity, Collaboration, Future. Topics that strengthen collaboration on online campaigns and initiatives are topics we like to see this year. There are also photography outreach (photo walks, teaching participants on Nature Photography). Singapore is one of a few countries where nature reserves and parks are at close proximity. It is great way to collaborate with each other. There is also a spacious Wikimania Expo space where achievements on Commons like Wiki Loves campaigns can be exhibited.
For participants joining virtually, we also have allocated online hours for you too to allow you to participate & present.
Session submissions for Wikimania 2023 are open until 28 March.
Visit the following links for further info:
Wiki page: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions
Diff post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/28/be-part-of-the-wikimania-2023-program/
Program Submission Form: https://pretalx.com/wm2023/cfp
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
Chair, Program Subcommittee
Event lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team