Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 in Peru

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Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 - February 1 to March 31, 2024
Sharing Peru's intangible cultural heritage with the world

Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photographic competition to enjoy and celebrate the cultural diversity from around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate.

In Peru, we are calling on people to dive into their photo archives or visit local sites with connections of Peru culture, folklore or storytelling and upload them to win!

The basic aim of the competition is to collect photos of human cultural diversity to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. The photos provided must match the theme, including, but not limited to festivals, material culture, dances, cuisine, clothing or daily life routine emphasizing on folk culture of Peru.

To find out about all the other national competitions taking place, visit the Wiki Loves Folklore 2024.

There is also a writing competition running throughout February and March for Feminism & Folklore (more on this on Meta-Wiki)

Participate

Find an inmaterial culture expression, take a photo and upload it to Wikimedia Commons:

Upload your photos! »

Find inmaterial culture
There are plenty of inmaterial cultural heritage in your region.


Take photos
Make as many and as good photos as you can, try different angles. Even if the photo doesn't win you a prize, it may help Wikipedia!


Describe them
Write down what you photographed. Record the place's name, description, and date of photo.


Upload to Commons
Upload your images to Wikimedia Commons between February 1 and March 31. Create an account, if you don't have one already.

Contact us!

There are several ways to contact us:

Why participate?

Participate in Wiki Loves Folklore, and help Wikipedia document the popular culture of Peru.

Participating is fun! By photographing and sharing images of cultural heritage nearby you, you can explore more about Peru's cultural heritage and learn about it. It's a nice challenge to improve your photography skills, and you can of course win some nice prizes. More information about the international competition is available on the international website .

You can also upload images that you may have taken already during one of your travels to the national competition of that country. Check if your travel destination participates in Wiki Loves Folklore this year.

If you want to participate in the diffusion of the contest, we have a space with press releases and other materials for communication.

Competition rules

We try to keep the competition clean and simple to participate. There are only a few rules for photos to participate in the contest in Peru. Let's quickly go through them. Every submission should be:

Next to 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.

Ineligibility

  • Entries that are already present on Wikimedia Commons are ineligible for submission. Re-uploading of images is not permitted.
  • All entries must align with the scope of Wikimedia Commons. Submissions that deviate from this scope will be disqualified, and there is a possibility of deletion without prior notice.
  • Images featuring watermarks, timestamps, or image credits on the visual content itself, or any other form of editing associating the image with the uploader, are not considered eligible for the contest.
  • Pornographic images and videos are strictly prohibited and will not be accepted as valid entries in the contest.

International Prizes

You can win the following prizes in the international contest:

  • 1st prize: 400 USD
  • 2nd prize: 300 USD
  • 3rd prize: 100 USD
  • Top 10 consolation prizes: 10 USD each
  • Best Video prize and best Audio prize: 25 USD, 25 USD (each)
  • Top uploader prize for images: First Prize 100 USD, Second prize 50 USD
  • Wiki Loves Folklore Postcards to top 100 Uploaders
Disclaimer: Prizes to be dispersed in a gift card or voucher format by International organizing team, not by Wikimedia Peru.

The Jury

Our jury will process the images through two or three rounds during April. At the end of this process, the jury determines the top-10. If there are any doubts about the implementation of the rules, the jury decides. Our jury will be composed of people with experience in art, photography, history and historical preservation.

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.

Images that reach a top ranking of the international finale, will typically at least fulfill the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons. But feel free to submit many images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.

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