Hi all,
Are you organising Wiki Loves Earth this year?
Please make sure your country is added on the list:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2025/Participat…
Adding it later may result in a delay for your country to start, so don't
wait!
If your country is not in time in the list, there is no WLE going to start.
Thanks!
Greetings,
Romaine
Hi there folks,
Wondering if someone might be able to advise!
I'm wondering if there's a way to ensure that when a user enters the
competition through using the upload button on our list of protected areas,
that the Wikidata item (assuming that there is one) is included in the
wikitext of the image?
Currently, our upload buttons (see here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_in_Scotland/Pro…>
for
example) add the Commons category if there is one, but don't seem to add
the Wikidata item. I've had a look at the template but I'm stuck.
Any help would be appreciated!
All the best,
Sara
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Dear WLE community, we have an important reminder — organize your local Wiki
Loves Earth 2025!
*When?
1st of May — 31st of July.
We have a flexible approach regarding local dates, and local organizers
decide when exactly to hold their contest within the international
timeframe.
How can you join the contest this year as an organizer?
*Gather a team of volunteers with clear roles and timelines.
*Define eligible natural sites in your country (must be officially
protected).
*Prepare a landing page for the local contest.
*Put your country in the participants’ list: https://w.wiki/Cwd9
*Create a promotion plan for the contest on social networks.
*Gather a jury team to evaluate the photos (select top-15 local winners for
an international contest).
*Award your winners.
Find out more about the process in our detailed guidelines for the local
teams —
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2025/Organise
We also continue to raise awareness about environmental problems — follow
the special category "Human Rights and Environment", which is held for the
5th time —
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2025/Human_Righ…
Document the wide world of protected sites not only with images, but with
videos. For the second time, we opened a special category called "Video". Find
the details on the page —
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2025/Video_nomi…
Follow our channels for local organizers to receive the most important
information:
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wlecommunity/
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Telegram chat: https://t.me/+jtPfBWQVCGkzMmIy
Subscribe to our social media channels: Instagram:
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Website: https://wikilovesearth.org/
If you have any questions or need any help, don't hesitate to get in touch
with the international team at wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua
Stay tuned for the Wiki Loves Earth 2025, and don’t hesitate to participate!
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Best regards,
*Olesia Lukaniuk*
Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth International
Dear Wiki Loves Earth Enthusiasts,
Wikimania 2025 is just around the corner! This year's event will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from August 6-9 (with a pre-conference on August 5), and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Our conference theme, "Wikimania at 20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability.*, resonates deeply with the mission of Wiki Loves Earth to foster appreciation for our heritage and contribute to a global repository of free knowledge.
We’re reaching out to invite you to submit program proposals for the conference before March 31. We’d love to see your ideas come to life. Proposals can be presented in various formats:
● Remote presentations from the comfort of your home or workplace.
● Pre-recorded sessions to share at the conference.
● Onsite presentations in Nairobi, Kenya.
We welcome all creative and impactful proposals. To help spark ideas, here are a few topics that may align with the conference theme:
● Strategies for involving underrepresented communities in local natural heritage projects using Wikimedia platforms.
● Showcasing how WLE photos have contributed to Wikimedia projects or have been utilized in education, research, or media worldwide.
● Approaches to keeping Wikimedia projects like Wiki Loves Earth vibrant, relevant, and usable for years to come.
If you’ve ever had a vision for a session that highlights your work or your insights in these areas, now is the time to make it happen. You can submit your proposal at https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Program .
For inquiries, comments, or assistance with your proposal, please email wikimania(a)wikimedia.org. Our team of dedicated volunteers will be happy to guide you.
We look forward to your participation. We look forward to seeing your contributions that highlight the continued impact of Wiki Loves Earth at this landmark event. Let’s work together to make Wikimania 2025 a truly memorable celebration of free knowledge and community collaboration.
Warm regards,
Butch Bustria
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Organisers
Hi all,
At the top of the Wiki Loves Earth pages a template is used:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLE_top
It contains 6 short texts that are shown as tabs on the documentation pages.
I copied the translations from the past years (2018-2024) into this single
template, so we can re-use it every year without providing it again and
again.
For the 45 languages translations have been added, but for only for 7
languages the translations are complete. Often only one word hasn't been
translated, sometimes two.
Please check this template for your language(s)!
Thank you!
Romaine
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