Commons:Wiki Loves Classics

Wiki Loves Classics is a project organized by the WikiClassics User Group with the aim of highlighting the cultural heritage of Wiki Loves Monuments and promoting better image results and platform contents related to it.

Goals

Every year part of the files uploaded to Wiki Loves Monuments are related to Classical Culture.

WLM is however mostly aimed at photographers. Our goal is to classify and evaluate these images in order to improve their quality and quantity over the years.

The first test exploratory edition was performed in 2019. The entire selection process and the categories were defined for the first time.

We also hope to use this initiative a motivational framework for catalyzing the formation of sustainable relationship between the academia and Wikimedia community in this field, since Wikipedia is an active platform dedicated to collecting and sharing educational content freely to everyone.

Evaluation

Winner (and a runner-ups) are selected for these five categories:

landscapes and views;
coexistence or contrast of modern and classic;
architectural details;
museum collections and objects;
epigraphs and writings.

The competition stress the importance of images of details, and jurors also generally gives higher score to file with more complete titles and descriptions.

Images with watermarks or similar artifacts (framing) are not disqualified, but cropped whenever possible. If the addition cannot be removed, the images receive a lower score.

Editions

Images related to Classics among Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 finalists

Theatre of Butrint panorama, Finalist of the European Special Award worldwide in Wiki Loves Monuments 2018
Ruins of Cuicul, 2nd Place Algeria WLM 2018
Temple of Philae, 6th Place Egypt WLM 2018
Inside the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, 8th Place Egypt WLM 2018
Temple of Aphaea, Aegina, 2nd Place Greece WLM 2018
Caryatids of Erechtheion, Acropolis of Athens, 7th Place Greece WLM 2018
Caryatids of Erechtheion, Acropolis of Athens, 9th Place Greece WLM 2018
Petra, 2nd Place International WLM 2018
Ulpiana, WLM 2018
Histria, WLM 2018
Santa Tecla, Pontevedra, 4th Place Spain WLM 2018
Amphitheatre of Tarragona, 5th Place Spain WLM 2018
Hardknott Roman fort, 3rd Place United Kingdom WLM 2018