Hi, dear 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![image: 🏆]
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:[image: 👉]
https://wikilovesearth.org/.
Many congratulations to all the winners and organizers 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 all,
Wikimedia projects would not be possible without the work of the countless
volunteers, passionately working on bringing free knowledge to the world.
Through the year we WikiCelebrate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate> different
volunteers and their amazing work. [1]
This time we celebrate Alberto Leoncio, a Wikimedian who likes to work on
the backstage of the Portuguese Wikimedia projects. There are many reasons
to celebrate Alberto, nowadays he manages bots, scripts, filters,
templates and modules. He helps beginners to understand Wikipedia rules and
policies, and engages in administrative work: protecting pages, and
blocking vandals. “I wish whoever reads Wikipedia understands that it is
not just a website to look for information, that Wikipedia is just one
aspect of something much bigger, that there are several editors behind a
single article, that there is a community behind each Wikipedia and that it
goes much beyond that, with many projects in the wiki movement created by
volunteers for free knowledge.” - he says. Visit WikiCelebrate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Alberto_Leoncio>
[2] page to learn more about Alberto and congratulate him. You can also
read about him on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/04/celebrating-alberto-leoncio/> [3]
(the post is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Arabic).
Each month we will celebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the
great people that have contributed so much to bringing us to where we are
today, and continue to do so. We warmly invite you to write about the
people celebrated each month. If you know them, share some wiki love. If
there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that you think should be celebrated,
recommend
them <https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate>.[4]
Happy celebrating
Giyu, Natalia and Mehrdad
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Alberto_Leoncio
[3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/04/celebrating-alberto-leoncio/
[4] https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate
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Giselle Bordoy (ella/she/her)
Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (Latin America)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all,
In celebration of Human Rights Day
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Day>, the Human Rights Team is
excited to host a one-hour conversation focused on exploring and addressing
human rights risks, particularly for Wikimedians. This event aims to shed
light on the unique challenges faced by the volunteers and to foster a
deeper understanding of the human rights implications inherent in their
work.
Join us on *8 December 2023* at *6 pm UTC*. Click the link to find your
local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1702058400>.
Following a brief presentation, the session will be formatted as a
community brainstorming and sharing session - participants will learn about
the human rights risks that Wikipedia faces and together we will discuss
and identify threats from different perspectives along with methods to
respond and mitigate them.
Participants will consider the following questions:
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Why does human rights matter?
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How does the Wikimedia Foundation advocate for and protect human
rights?
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What is the Foundation’s Human Rights Policy and why does it matter?
Attendees are encouraged to add their questions ahead of time on the
etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Human_Rights_Day>. Please register
to join the Zoom call
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdeqprTgjHNBS8325J_dyMedzeUGs…>
.
Hope to see you there!
The Human Rights Team