Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in the United Kingdom/Competition rules

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See Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 in the United Kingdom/Competition rules for the 2013 rules. The rules below are the draft rules for 2014, and are under discussion.

Acceptable entries

• To be valid, each entry must be a still photograph or a video that you have taken and newly uploaded yourself of ...
• You must upload your entry to Wikimedia Commons during the month of September 2014. It doesn’t matter when you took the photo, only that you upload it after 00:00 BST on 1st Sept and before the final deadline of 24:00 BST on 30th Sept.
• You should preferably upload via the official upload wizard, which will automatically will do most of the work for you. (Expert users may upload manually, but must use the official template and must identify the specific building shown with reference to the unique official number maintained by English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw, or NIEA).
• You must supply your entry under a free copyright licence, or release it to the public domain. The preferred licence used by the upload wizard is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 CC-BY-SA 3.0.
• To be eligible for a prize you will need to provide and maintain a valid email address.

Not eligible

• Non-photographic works such as drawings or entirely computer-generated works
• Photographs that are already on Commons (ie re-uploading is not allowed)
• As the images will be hosted on Wikimedia Commons, all entries must fall within Commons scope. Any that do not will be disqualified and may be deleted without notice.

Judging criteria

The UK jury will judge individual entries based on the following criteria (in no particular order):

• Technical quality
• Originality
• Potential usefulness and overall value of the image (including its licensing) to the Wikimedia projects

Jury composition

To be confirmed:

• Wikimedians
• Photography professionals
• Heritage specialists

Awards

Main awards

The UK jury will decide on awards in the following categories:

• Best image (1st prize)
• Best image (2nd prize)
• Best image (3rd prize)
• 7 other Highly Commended images

Special awards

To be discussed

International awards

• The three best and the seven Highly Commended images will go forward for entry into the international level of the competition. (It is unclear at present whether there will in fact be any international award in 2014).

The small print

Both the international and the local Wikimedia Loves Monuments competitions 2013, including this UK competition, are largely organized by volunteers, and the organizers reserve the right to modify these rules or to cancel the contest at their sole discretion, even after it has started. The organizers accept no responsibility for the provision by the sponsors of any prizes, nor of any liability whatsoever in respect of this contest. Neither the rules nor anything on these pages amount to an offer to create legally binding relations with any of the organizers. Members of the jury and trustees/staff of Wikimedia UK are not eligible to receive any award (although they are otherwise welcome to contribute images).