Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in South Sudan
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to promote historic sites around the world through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate.
This year, South Sudan is once again participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2023, and you are encouraged to submit any photos of monuments in South Sudan between October 1st and October 31st. By submitting your photos to the competition, you share the heritage of South Sudan with the rest of the world to enjoy through the internet. We will explain below how to participate, what you can win, and what monument sites are eligible. There are dozens of other countries that you can participate in; please check out the international website.
Participate
Find a monument, take a photo, and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:
Find monuments in South Sudan
There are plenty of cultural heritage monuments in South Sudan. You can do some research and visit these sites.
Take photos
Take as many high-quality photos as you can from different angles. Even if the photo doesn't win a prize, it may help improve Wikipedia!
Describe them
Write down what you photographed, including the site's name, the monument ID, description, and the date of the photo.
Upload to Commons
Upload your images to Wikimedia Commons between October 1st and October 31st. If you don't have an account, you can create one.Contact us!
You may contact Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan, the coordinator of this contest in South Sudan, via lomoronald@gmail.com or wojaemmanuel16@gmail.com. For technical or copyright-related issues, contact lomoronald@gmail.com. For an urgent response, leave a note here
Why participate?
Participate in Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition in the world, and help Wikipedia document monuments and heritage buildings.
Participating is fun! By photographing and sharing images of heritage sites near you, you can learn more about South Sudan's heritage and contribute to its preservation. It's a rewarding challenge that can help improve your photography skills, and you also have the chance to win some fantastic prizes. You stand a chance to win amazing national prizes. The national jury will select up to 10 images to represent South Sudan in the international competition. These images will compete for international awards. More information about the international competition is available on [www.wikilovesmonuments.org](https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org).
You can also upload images that you may have taken during your travels to the national competition of the respective country. Check if your travel destination participates in Wiki Loves Monuments this year.
Competition rules
We strive to keep the competition clean and simple to participate in. There are only a few rules for photos to participate in the contest in South Sudan. Let's quickly go through them. Every submission should be:
- Self-taken and self-uploaded;
- Uploaded during October 2023;
- During the upload process, you grant permission with a CC BY-SA license for the image to be reused;
- Contain a listed monument, which you have identified using the monument identifier (see elsewhere on this page);
Additionally, there are a few practical rules:
- You should have an activated email address on Wikimedia Commons;
- If the photo is deleted for any reason, it will be automatically disqualified from the competition;
- You are responsible for following the law while taking and uploading the photo.
In September, 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 top 10 pictures of the monuments in South Sudan to submit for the international finale. The international jury will then announce the international winners in December.
Prizes
TBA
More about South Sudan's monuments
All the entries included will be considered as Monumental Buildings, Cultural sites, and sites of significant importance to South Sudan for the Photography contest.
The Jury
Our jury will process the images through two or three rounds during October. At the end of this process, the jury will determine the top 10. If there are any doubts about the implementation of the rules, the jury will make the final decision.
Judging criteria
The jury will determine the winners of the international contest taking into consideration the following criteria (in no particular order):
- Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective, etc.);
- Originality;
- Usefulness of the image for Wikipedia.
Images that reach a top ranking in the international finale will typically at least fulfill the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons. However, feel free to submit as many images as you like, and let the jury decide if they meet the standards.