Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 in Bangladesh
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to promote historic sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). This year Bangladesh is also participating this competition for 5th time and this page introduces the Bangladeshi part of this competition.
Participation is absolutely free so everybody can participate. You are encouraged to submit any photos of monuments in Bangladesh between 1st to 31st of October 2022. This is your chance to show the great monuments and heritage sites present in Bangladesh and by submitting your photos to the competition, you would be sharing your heritage with the rest of the world. You can take pictures from any camera and upload them to the WLM Bangladesh page at Wikipedia. You can even participate with your previously taken photographs as well but you have to submit them between the competition time period i.e. 1st to 31st of October 2022.
Wiki Loves monuments is an annual competition, so the more you upload the pictures from Bangladesh the more chances you may get to win the national competition and global competition and make your country proud. To explore which countries are participating in this years competition, please check out the international website.
Participate
Find a monument from this list, take pictures from any camera and upload them to the WLM Bangladesh page at Wikimedia Commons.
Join Wikimedia Commons
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Take photos
Take as many and as good photos as you can, try different angles different times of the day. Even if the photo doesn't win you a prize, it may help Wikipedia!
Describe them
Write down what you photographed. Record the site's name, the monument ID, description, and date of photo.
Competition rules
Participation is simple and easy. There are only a few rules for photos to follow in order to participate in the contest in Bangladesh. Let's quickly go through them. Every submission should be:
- Self taken and self uploaded;
- Uploaded during October 2022;
- During the upload process, you give permission with a CC BY-SA license to re-use the image;
- Contain a listed monument, which you have identified using the monument identifier;
- No watermarks present on the photo;
- No modification or edits applied on the photo;
Other than that, there are a few practical rules:
- You should have an activated e-mail address on Wikimedia Commons;
- If the photo gets deleted for any reason, it is automatically disqualified from the competition;
- You are responsible for following the law while taking and uploading the photo.
In October, you may upload as many pictures (old or new) as you want of monuments that you have visited. At the end of the month, the national jury will evaluate the photographs and select the best 10 pictures of the monuments in Bangladesh to submit to represent in the international finale.
Prizes
All participants will receive a digital certificate of participation. The top-ten photos will be forwarded to the international competition.
Local Prizes:
- 1st Prize - 15,000 worth gift voucher + certificate
- 2nd Prize - 10,000 worth gift voucher + certificate
- 3rd Prize - 8,000 worth gift voucher + certificate
- 4th to 10th Prize - digital certificate (each)
The jury
Our jury will process the images during November and top-10 photographs would be forwarded to international jury. The international jury will announce the international winners in January 2023.
Jury members: TBA
Judging criteria
The jury will determine the winners of the international contest taking into the consideration the following criteria (in no particular order):
- Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective etc.);
- Originality;
- Usefulness of the image for Wikipedia.
- Composition
Images that reach a top ranking of the international finale, will typically at least fulfil the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons.
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ঐশিক রেহমান
- আয়োজক ও বিচারিক সদস্য, উইকি লাভস মনুমেন্টস ২০২২ বাংলাদেশ
- Aishik Rehman (Username)
- contact@aishikrehman.com
The small print: This contest is 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 are not eligible to receive any award (although they are otherwise welcome to contribute images).