Commons:Wiki Loves Love 2019

The results for Wiki Loves Love 2019 Photographic competition has been declared. Please visit the Results page to see the winning files.

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Welcome to Wiki Loves Love 2019!

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photographic contest organized by Wikimedia community to document love testimonials in various cultures and regions of the world.

Concept

The basic aim of the competition is to collect photos of love testimonials through human cultural diversity – such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love – to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. Like Wiki Loves Earth (WLE) and Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), photos provided must match the theme, although WLL is not limited to any official list of protected areas, love can occur everywhere!

So the focus is not on sites, whether of regional or national importance but on the widest variety of love testimonials possible. This means that most users will be able to find several pertaining subjects close to them, whether heritage sites or daily life event.

Timeline

1–28 February 2019.
Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2019 23:59 UTC.
Results Declaration: around April 14, 2019.

Prizes

1st prize: US$400
2nd prize: US$300
3rd prize: US$100
Videos: US$100
Community Prize: US$50 For Videos and US$50 For Photos
10 Consolation Prize: US$15 Each
Certificates to winners and organizers
Wiki loves Love Postcards to top 1000 uploaders
T-shirts and certificates for International Team

(Disclaimer: community prize would be given to the independent affiliate/organisation getting top uploads. If there is no winner from Video category in the 'Community Prize', then the amount would be clubbed and given to Community Winner for Photos)

Winners

There will be 15 winning pictures/videos!

Where to ask questions?

The primary place for questions or suggestions is the WLL 2019 talk page (Use the language you prefer, we love diversity and will find a solution to help you whatever the language you prefer to use).

Check out more details of the contest here.

Competition scope: examples to get inspired

The theme calls for photographs and videos files that document all manner of festivals, celebrations, ceremonies and rituals of love across the continents in different cultures and regions. For more ideas and inspiration, check list of festivals around the globe.

Ceremonial Dance at Twelve Tribes Wedding
Aarti swagatham ritual in Hindu culture
Newly Wedded couple at Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Rodnover wedding in Russia
Wedding kiss at Trinità dei Monti, Rome, Italy
Wedding ceremony in Malaysia
Children carnival parade in Spain
Onam festival in Kerala, India
Jigida dance from Eastern Nigeria
Folklore festival in Spain
Love padlocks on Ha´penny bridge, Dublin, Ireland
Religious ritual at Banaras Ghat in Varanasi, India
Artist performing Kummattikali mask-dance in Thrissur, India
Women placing a Diwali Diya on the occasion of Indian festival of Light, Diwali
Sawa dance group during the Ngondo festival in Cameroon
Aarti plate on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan India
Children tying ‘Rakhi’ on wrist of Indian prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of ‘Raksha Bandhan’, in New Delhi, India
Indian festival of Holi celebrated in Maharashtra, India
South African traditional wedding
Traditional Dance in Kontali, Djibouti, Africa
Wedding nuptials in West Sumatra, Indonesia
Traditional dance in Africa
Orthodox funeral service in Russia
Traditional Albanian wedding
KanyaDaan ritual in Indian culture
Farmer wedding in Jomala, Finland
Traditional wedding Minhag Yerushalayim in Jerusalem
Bridegroom on Horseback at Rajput wedding in India
Santa Claus arrives