Wiki Loves Heritage Belgium is a photo contest in Belgium taking place from 1 July until 30 November 2019. During the contest you are welcome to upload photos from heritage in Belgium. Heritage includes immovable heritage and movable heritage, as well as immaterial heritage as maritime heritage.
This year we would specially welcome pictures from permanent museum exhibitions.
Participate by uploading photos of heritage from Belgium, enrich Wikipedia, and make heritage more visible for the public!
Heritage?
Wiki Loves Heritage
Eligible heritage in this photo contest are all four types of heritage.
Immovable heritage are archaeological sites, monuments, cultural-historical landscapes, war relics and city and villagescapes.
Movable heritage are the collections of art objects, utensils, decorative objects, archival documents, visual material, historic tools and vehicles, etc., which are stored in museums, archives and heritage libraries.
Immaterial heritage are the non-tangible habits or customs of the past that one cherishes and still practices today. For example, parties, stories, songs, traditions, social customs, rituals, crafts, ...
Maritime heritage is the nautical heritage that can sail or float. This concerns both seagoing vessels and vessels for inland waters with various propulsion types, or without their own propulsion, which were used for pleasure or for professional purposes.
Step 5: It is suggested that you use the uploaded photos to illustrate Wikipedia articles. You do not necessarily have to write a new article! You can just copy/paste the generated link at the end of the upload script to an existing article, in any language.
After the contest period a jury will judge the photos and select the winning photos. During an award ceremony the winners will receive a prize.
Eligible in the photo contest
In this photo contest all photos that contain a clearly identifiable heritage subject are eligible, as described in the left column, and include for example:
Archeology
Heritage monuments
Landscapes
immovable heritage like
archeology,
heritage monuments,
landscapes, and
maritime heritage.
Artworks
Historic documents
Oldtimer
Museums
movable heritage like
artworks,
archival documents,
historic vehicles,
and any
historic object from museums, archives, etc.
Speech balloon
Music
Celebration
Anvil
immaterial heritage like
stories & language,
music, dance, theatre & circus,
rituals, festivals & celebrations,
and traditional craftsmanship.
Conditions
All entries must be your own work.
All photos must be uploaded within the contest period of 1 July until the last day at 30 November 2019, to be eligible (the picture can be made in earlier months/years).
Photos do not contain a watermark (text added by the photographer).
All photos have a clear description what is depicted on the photo, including the town or municipality where the photo has been taken. If applicable the description also contains the name and address of the immaterial heritage, and the museum, archive or organisation where the movable heritage has been stored. Please mention the catalog, or official heritage number.
The JPEG must have a minimum resolution of 2 Mpixels, and be of sufficient quality.
We accept pictures of heritage, to be useful for Wikipedia; artistic artifacts are not wanted.
Participants have registered in the contest with an active email account.
Each participant guarantees to have all the required authorisations of any persons depicted or of the owners of the photographed interiors, works, objects, goods.
Further recommendations
Since 15 July 2016 there is freedom of panorama in Belgium, including permanent public exhibitions. This means that, in principle, you are allowed to take photographs from a public place. You must respect other laws like the general copyright and image rights. Museums may impose certain restrictions.
Please register the GPS coordinates if your device has this capability.
Also video files are accepted.
Give a useful, unique, logical, and clear file name, allowing easy search by name.
As of this year, Wikidata metadata is also collected for each photo:
Captions in different languages (at best copy the short description, once more)
Depicting "This is", a Wikidata attribute that indicates what the picture represents
Please add at least one (existing, non-overlapping) category to your picture
All this ensures that your photo is easily findable.
