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International Wiki Loves Earth 2025 results recap
by Olesia Lukaniuk 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

Dear WLE community, *The final results of Wiki Loves Earth 2025 were announced in December 2025 — we are pleased to remind you about our winning entries and once more congratulate the international winners before we launch a new edition of the contest!* 2025 winners represent an outstanding global effort to capture the beauty, diversity, and fragility of protected natural areas. From sweeping landscapes to intricate macro details, as well as compelling video storytelling, the competition once again highlights the vital role photography plays in raising awareness about nature conservation and environmental protection. *International winners include:* *Top 20 winners in the Landscapes and Macro categories.* These photographs showcase exceptional views of protected areas and close-up perspectives on wildlife and natural elements, demonstrating both artistic excellence and documentary value. 🏆 https://wikilovesearth.org/ *Winners of the special category “Human Rights and Environment”.* This category highlights the connection between environmental protection and human rights, emphasizing how ecological issues directly affect communities and livelihoods. 🏆 https://bit.ly/4k0aGfN *Winners of the special category “Video”.* Selected video works bring natural heritage to life through motion and sound, offering new ways to engage audiences and tell environmental stories. 🏆 https://bit.ly/4qvtru5 *Also see:* *Final report for Wiki Loves Earth 2025.* 📊https://w.wiki/Hc4J *WLE 2025 Jury report.* 📊https://w.wiki/Hc4M *WLE 2025 International Award Ceremony.* 📹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqkifEKhq4&t=8s We extend our sincere thanks to all participants, national organizers, jurors, and volunteers who made Wiki Loves Earth 2025 possible. Your collective efforts continue to strengthen Wikimedia Commons with high-quality, freely licensed content and help draw global attention to the importance of preserving our natural heritage. Stay tuned for Wiki Loves Earth in 2026, which will be released in the next few weeks! -- Best regards *Olesia Lukaniuk* Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth International

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Upcoming Deployment of the CampaignEvents Extension
by Giovanna Fontenelle 19 Sep '25

19 Sep '25

(Apologies for cross-posting and for the message being in English only!) Dear WLE organizers and participants, We have some good news for you! As potential interested stakeholders, we would like to share with you that the Connection Product team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Campaigns/Foundation_Pro…> at the Wikimedia Foundation is enabling the CampaignEvents extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents> on Wikimedia Commons by the week of September 15th. This extension is designed to simplify the management of community events, projects, and campaigns, such as yours! In addition to facilitating the discovery and participation of all contributors in these events. Once it's enabled on Wikimedia Commons, organizers will have access to features that will help communicate with participants, as well as plan, organize, and promote events/campaigns/projects on Wikimedia Commons, without having to rely on external platforms. The features of the extension are: - Event Registration: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Center/Registration> A tool that helps organizers and participants manage event registration directly on the wiki. - Collaboration List <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Campaigns/Foundation_Pro…>: A global list of events and a local list of WikiProjects, accessible at Special:AllEvents <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AllEvents>. - Invitation List: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Invitatio…> A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on their past contributions. For more information, please check the message shared <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Upcoming_Deployment…> on Wikimedia Commons’ Village Pump. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to share them on the extension discussion page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CampaignEvents>. We would love to hear from you before the rollout! As organizers, if you want to know more about the extension or help us engage/use the features on Wikimedia Commons, and assist us in creating an adoption strategy for the extension, please let us know either here, on the extension discussion page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CampaignEvents>, or by contacting me directly via <gfontenelle(a)wikimedia.org>. Thanks so much for your attention! Best, Giovanna Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her) Program Officer, Culture and Heritage Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Wiki Loves Earth celebrates 1,000,000 images of the natural heritage worldwide!
by Olesia Lukaniuk 22 Jul '25

22 Jul '25

Wiki Loves Earth International photo contest has been active for 13 years, each year highlighting the diversity of our planet. But this year is special for us, as we have reached a monumental milestone! Over 1,000,000 images have now been contributed to Wiki Loves Earth International over its history from 98 countries/territories by more than 80,000 participants! From breathtaking landscapes to charming macro shots, from the hidden corners of our planet to urgent environmental issues and stunning videos — a powerful testament to the global love for nature and free knowledge. - The most fruitful year in terms of uploads over the contest's history was 2017, with almost 130,000 submitted images! - In 2016, we received more than 109,000 submissions. - And 2020 was a year with over 105,000 images uploaded worldwide. - From year to year, Germany and Ukraine are the ones bringing the highest numbers of uploads. But the contribution of each participating country has built today’s milestone! A huge thank you to every participant, volunteer, and organizer who contributed to capturing the planet’s diversity and sharing it with the world. Let’s keep growing a global bank of freely-licensed images of our nature worldwide! -- Best regards *Olesia Lukaniuk* Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth International

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Error in upload campaigns
by Romaine Wiki 22 May '25

22 May '25

Software bug alert: All upload campaigns used in in WLE have now a bug in what on the 4th page ('Describe') some code is shown. This issue has been reported on Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395095>. Cause lies somwhere in a recent MediaWiki update, it is now waiting for a solution and a quick fix in the software. In the end result there is no issue visible, but it may result in that users don't know what to do with it and that it may result in wrong answers. Romaine

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Joining this year's WLE? Add your country now
by Romaine Wiki 20 Apr '25

20 Apr '25

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

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Wikidata inclusion on upload button
by Sara Thomas 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

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 -- Dr Sara Thomas Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK 07803 505 172 *My pronouns are she/her, and my name is pronounced like this. <https://namedrop.io/sarathomas> * https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/ <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland> *I work part time, my usual days are Monday - Thursday.* <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> *Wikimedia UK* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>. Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513 (England & Wales) SC048644 (Scotland). Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Scotland, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Office c/o British Library, Room 46018, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

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Organize your local Wiki Loves Earth in 2025!
by Olesia Lukaniuk 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

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/ <https://www.facebook.com/groups/wlecommunity/> Telegram chat: https://t.me/+jtPfBWQVCGkzMmIy Subscribe to our social media channels: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesearth/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interwle Twitter: https://twitter.com/WikiLovesEarth <https://mobile.twitter.com/WikiLovesEarth> 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! -- Best regards, *Olesia Lukaniuk* Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth International

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Elevate Wiki Loves Earth at Wikimania, Propose Your Session by March 31
by Butch Bustria 23 Mar '25

23 Mar '25

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

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Urgent: short translation needed in many languages (otherwise broken page)
by Romaine Wiki 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

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

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Wiki Loves Earth 2024 | Meet the International winners!
by Olesia Lukaniuk 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

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! -- Best regards, *Olesia Lukaniuk* Project Manager for Wiki Loves Earth International

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