Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in Sweden/Covid-19

The world is currently in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments in Sweden, our top priority is to ensure the safety and well-being of all volunteers in our project, including contestants in Wiki Loves Monuments.

This page aims to outline a few rules, and some ideas, for a successful and safe Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 and 2021!

Rules

1: We cannot fund any offline events.

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic all offline public events funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants must be canceled or postponed until further notice. This means that Wikimedia Sverige cannot fund any offline events such as photographic safaris.

2: Follow the guidelines from Folkhälsomyndigheten.

Folkhälsomyndigheten, the Swedish Public Health Agency, is responsible for guidelines and recommendations on what to do as individual in the Covid-19 pandemic. A summary of the recommendations can be found here. To summarize guidelines relevant for Wiki Loves Monuments:

• Keep the distance from others.
• Try to avoid using public transport, and if needed, keep the distance in the public transport.
• We ask you to either use already existing photos, or to visit monuments in your vicinity.

Ideas and advice

1: Explore your local cultural heritage sites!

See also: the list of objects in the competition

While we are recommended not to travel long distances, and to distance ourselves socially from others, we are encouraged to be outdoors. Wiki Loves Monuments is a golden opportunity to bring your camera, and with that in hand, explore your local cultural heritage sites. You find the closest object in the challenge here!

2: Use our technology pool!

Wikimedia Sverige has a large pool of camera equipment, especially suitable for taking photos of monuments. If you reach out to us well in time, we can send you this equipment, to use in the challenge. Maybe an opportunity for you to experiment with your photographic skills?

3: Go through your personal archives!

The photos have to be uploaded in September. They don't have to be taken in September. Maybe, if you are already at home and distancing yourself socially, this is the perfect time to go through your own personal archives? In search of all great photos you had forgot that you had taken?

4: Expand the Wikipedia articles!

Maybe you're not into taking photos? Or you are, but prefer staying at home in this context? You can help us with expanding information about cultural heritage sites. Many of them have insufficient information – please help us change that!