What is Wiki Loves Earth?
Wiki Loves Earth is a photographic competition open to everybody.
Pictures must portray local natural heritage and scenic landscape and must be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
This is the national contest for Italy, that together with the other national editions create the international Wiki Loves Earth contest.
How to participate?
- Log in on Wikimedia Commons or create a new account
- Search on the list of the protected areas the subject of your pictures
- Click on the button “Upload image”, next to the description of the area (in the right column of the table: it will appear in June)
- Follow the instructions on Wikimedia Commons and upload your photo(s)
- Repeat the procedure to upload as many pictures as you wish
Don’t forget that:
- You need a valid e-mail address connected to your Commons account, since if you win, we will contact you via email: you can check if you have one in your Commons Preferences
- You have to be the author of the pictures you upload
- Pictures have to be uploaded during June (from the first of the month ‘till the 30th)
- Pictures have to be released under a CC-BY-SA license
- The subject of the pictures has to be one of the protected natural areas from the lists
- You can participate with as many pictures as you wish
- You can also participate with old pictures, but you still have to be the author of them
About the organizer
Wiki Loves Earth Italy is organized by InFormAzioni, an association based in northern Italy.
The contest is supported by the Wikimedia movement through the Wiki Loves Earth International Team.
The organizing team supports the Sustainability Initiative, that aims to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia projects.