Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2024/Report
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This page provides a full report of international photo contest Wiki Loves Earth in 2024, organised by Wikimedia Ukraine.
Pages and channels
[edit]- Website
- Facebook group for organisers
- Telegram channel for the local organisers
Statistics
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https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/
Nominations
[edit]- The main nomination of the Wiki Loves Earth 2024
- Special nomination “Human Rights and Environment”
- Special nomination “Video”
International organising team
[edit]- Core team
- Others
- Romaine — CentralNotice Banners and technical infrastructure.
- Geugeor — French-speaking region (translations and promotions).
- 4 international volunteers for translations, reviewing images, and other.
Timeline
[edit]- January — February: review of the rules, update pages on Commons, website, and social media channels. Public announcement and invitations for the local teams.
- March — May: understanding the needs of local organizers, communication with them, promotion of the contest, CentralNotice Banners setting up.
- May — July (partly prolonged to August): contest period.
- July — September: local results, checking local team’s submissions.
- August — September: choosing the international jury team, WLX jury tool setting-up, guidelines for the jurors.
- September — October: international evaluation process.
- November: sum-upping of the final results, receiving the feedback, preparations for the announcements.
- December: announcement of the final results, sharing the results in different channels, communication with the winners, awarding the winners, and international online award ceremony.
- January: reports and post-servicing.
The main results and highlights
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- Numbers
- 56 participating countries and territories (the record number).
- 6 countries joined for the first time: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Lebanon, Scotland.
- 80,100 images were submitted overall by participants.
- 5,131 (6%) images used in the Wikipedia.
- 3,867 uploaders (2,728 (70%) registered after the competition started).
- Top countries with the most number of uploads: Germany, Ukraine, Senegal.
- 53 countries moved to the international level (submitted their local winning images).
- 583 local winning images were sumbitted (the record number).
- 11,500 images submitted for the special nomination "Human Rights and Environment".
- 8 videos submitted for the special nomination "Video".
- Final results
- Top 20 best images of the Wiki Loves Earth 2024
- The best images for the special nomination "Human Rights and Environment"
- The best videos for the special "Video" nomination
Contest's analysis
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- General timeline — launched the contest much earlier (in February, not March). All the processes went smoothly and the main deadlines were not missed.
- A record number of participating countries (56) + 6 new countries (growth: +12% compared to the previous year).
- The number of uploads increased compared to the previous year: 60,963 in 2023 → 80,100 in 2024 (growth: +32%).
- Created Resources Center with the useful instructions and guidelines for the local teams and uploaders.
- Started the process of cooperation with WMF regarding rapid grands (timeline and process).
- Special nominations: launched a new special category "Video" and had a record number of uploaded images for the special category "Human Rights and Environment".
- Communication with the local teams: permanent, relevant updates, reminders, and personal approach, the acceptable response rate from the organizers.
- Communication and work with the jurors, the number of jurors involved, internal chat.
- Constant promotion of the project in social media.
- Award ceremony was conducted.
- Proactive winners, who are active on social media, shared the information about the project, and had a high response rate to us.
- Project representation on the international level: presented the project to a global community by conducting a session during CEE Meeting, organised a meetup during Wikimania, presented on different calls and local conferences, CEE newsletters.
- General positive feedback from the participants, jurors, and organisers. As a result, communities want to organise again and uploaders to take part.
- Constant regional (African) ambassador + 5 new volunteers were involved (45 expressed their intention to join).
- What can be improved
- General timeline and contest's time framework: to follow micro deadlines (some processes plan in advance) and limit participation by the end of July (or to prolong by the middle of August).
- Continue cooperation with WMF regarding better and faster funding process for local organizers.
- More engagement with the local teams: open office calls, chat interactions, organise sharing calls and webinars.
- Continue developing WLE Resources Center: create and add more instructions, translate in a few languages.
- To involve more participating countries: to increase the number to 60.
- To develop work with volunteers: to involve more volunteers and ambassadors among the regions: at least to have 3 ambassadors and 3 active volunteers + to have a constant engagement with them.
- More promotion and visibility for the project on social media channels, create new promo materials and share.
- To improve the WLX jury tool and its functional.
- More activity on the talk pages.
- Lists of protected areas improvement: to investigate more which countries are lacking the lists of protected areas or if they need some improvements and help with it, especially with the implementation stage and practical usage. In cooperation with the partner, improve the lists, also to share the instructions, and conduct a webinar.
- Develop more partnerships on the international level.
Resources Center
[edit]In 2024, we created a Resources Center for local teams and participants, which consists of useful and needed instructions for a better and easier participation.
Awarding
[edit]- Award ceremony
- The award ceremony was held online on the 19th of December, 2024 in Zoom.
- Around 30 participants have joined: winners, jurors, local organizers, and others.
- Recording from the ceremony you can find on our YouTube channel.
- Prizes
- Winners of the main nomination received a voucher for online shopping (mostly from Amazon or any other local shop). The amount depends on the winning place. Also, they received online diplomas and are going to receive WLE-branded souvenirs;
- Winners of the special nominations and jurors received online diplomas and will receive WLE-branded souvenirs.
Contest’s representation
[edit]- CEE Meeting 2024 in Turkey
- Ukrainian Wikiconference 2024
Jury report
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Here you can find an International jury report, where you can check the full information about each of the winning images, jurors and detailed selection process.
International jury team
[edit]- Main nomination
- Osama Silwadi is a Palestinian photojournalist, visual storyteller, archivist, and folklorist. He started his professional career in 1991. During the first Palestinian Intifada, he faced difficulties and challenges and was in danger as he worked in the conflict areas. In October 2006, Osama was seriously injured by a stray bullet during a march in the center of Ramallah, which resulted in paralysis of the lower limbs. Silwadi has won titles inspired by his work in documenting the Palestinian heritage, including "The Eye of Palestine" and the "Palestinian Heritage Documenter". Osama was the international jury member of the previous WLE editions in 2020, 2021, 2022 and was glad to continue contributing to the contest this year.
- Susanna Ånäs is a coordinator by practice and an artist, photographer, and documentarist at heart. Having joined the Wikimedia movement in 2012, she now runs the AvoinGLAM group in Helsinki, Finland, promoting open access to cultural heritage. The group likes to interpret GLAM as Global Languages, Art, and Memory instead of the institutional Galleries, Libraries, and Museums. The focus of the work is on urgent and important issues and bringing people together from across domain boundaries to work and learn together on them in case studies, experiments, or events like the co-creation "hackathon" Hack4OpenGLAM. Susanna has organized Wiki Loves Monuments in Finland three times. She wishes to explore and promote ways in which open culture advocates can make a positive impact on vulnerable and threatened cultural heritage or secure environmental sustainability. Susanna was the international jury member of the previous WLE edition in 2022 and was glad to continue contributing to the contest this year.
- Ananya Mondal is a veteran Wikimedian, hobbyist, nature photographer, and conservationist from India. She is also fond of Forest Survey, Rock Climbing, and Himalayan Trekking. In photography, her special love is shooting Butterflies and that's why she started and still has been operating successfully a scientifically-based WMF-granted project on species and subspecies level detailed documentation of butterflies of West Bengal and North-East India entitled Wiki Loves Butterfly (WLB) for the past 6 years with a group of enthusiast Wikipedians, lepidopterists, naturalists, researchers, scientific organizations, etc. hailing from different parts of India. She is also known as Butterfly Wikimedian and received the Wikimedian of the Year 2021 Rich Media Award. Ananya is one of the members of the Organizing team of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) in India and Wiki Loves Food (WLF) in India. Ananya was the international jury member of the previous WLE editions in 2018, 2022 and was glad to continue contributing to the contest this year.
- Bijay Chaurasia, a Nepal-based professional photographer specializing in landscape, travel, cultural, and monumental photography with a decade of experience, has captured Nepal's allure. A dedicated Wikimedia contributor since 2014, he promotes Nepal's charm worldwide.
- Jan Ainali started his Wikimedia journey on Wikimedia Commons in 2006. He has been the CEO of Wikimedia Sverige and is a co-founder of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development. In previous years, he has been on the jury for the Swedish Wiki Loves Earth and Wiki Loves Monuments, as well as the international Wiki Loves Monuments. In his day job, he helps organizations become better working in the open at Open By Default.
- Magdalena Sobolewska-Bereza is a biologist working at Warsaw University, Faculty of Biology. Nature and biodiversity is her great passion. She loves to observe wild animals and nature in the city, take photos, and educate her students about them. She leads educational excursions, during which she teaches respect for biodiversity and balance between our fast-growing civilization and nature. For many years, She’ve been teaching photography, and currently, She is focused on mobile photography. She likes to use experimental techniques and combine photos with graphics and art. She is also a trained phototherapist. The combination of diverse experiences enables her to develop people’s skills and show them how to express their emotions by capturing moments in the form of photos wherever they are.
- Lloyd Ericson C. Rodriguez, a Biological Sciences major, merges his passions for education, photography, and writing. With a foundation in campus journalism — culminating as Editor-in-Chief of his university publication, which won Best Tertiary Tabloid in Eastern Visayas (2011, 2012) — he developed a keen interest in photojournalism. After a brief hiatus post-graduation, Rodriguez returned to photography in 2016, where he started earning accolades in various national and international events. His achievements include wins in peace-themed, environmental, and travel photography contests, with works published and exhibited globally. Balancing his role as a Secondary School Teacher III, Rodriguez mentors young photojournalists and serves as facilitator in various writing and photography events and competitions. His award-winning storytelling through photography and writing reflects a dedication to intertwining science, art, and education, inspiring others to see the world through a creative lens.
- Habib Mhenni has been a Wikimedian since 2010, an Admin on Wikimedia Commons, and a jury member of many international Wiki Loves contests over the years.
- Valentine Uwimpuhwe holds a bachelor's in International Relations and is pursuing a master's in Development Studies. She volunteers with Wikimedia User Group Rwanda, managing social media and content creation. Valentine has served as a jury member in local and international Wikimedia competitions.
- Elena-Tatiana Chiș an architect working in restoration and interior design in France. Part-time freelance graphic designer, passionate about photography (landscape and architecture), monuments, and travel. She had some photos presented in different exhibitions, some of them published in architectural magazines and books, web articles (UNESCO), calendars (2013 KLM Social Calendar), etc. Discovered Wiki in 2016 through the Wiki Loves Monuments contest. That year, she was a winner in the top 10 national in the following countries: 1st and 5th place in Morocco, 3rd place in Peru, 3rd and 4th place in Tunis. Also, one of the Wiki Loves Monuments coordinators in Romania since 2018. One of the members of the Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group since 2018.
- Ajeigbe Rukayat, a certified trainer of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program, an ambassador for movement charters in the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC), and a Kiwix ambassador, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN) Community Support Fund Committee 2022/2023 fiscal year, among others. I have also participated in and co-facilities various Wikimedia projects such as the Wikimedia Awareness Program in Osun State, Wiki4HumanRight Campaign in Osun State 2023, Wiki Loves Earth 2023, Wiki Loves Africa 2023, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP), Wikidata (media personalities in Nigeria), WikiGLAM Awareness for Libraries and Librarians in Kwara, Wikidata for Libraries and Librarians in Nigeria, and 1lib1ref in Kwara 2022.
- Special nomination “Human Rights and Environment”
- João Pompeu — a Brazilian biologist and ecological researcher. Photography first came into his life as a working tool, but it soon assumed a more important role as art. As an independent documentary photographer, Joao portrays the environmental processes related to his research areas, including great natural phenomena, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and their relationships with all the spheres of the Earth System.
- Nicky Deluggi — Italian, based in Austria. Human Rights Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Japanese Studies from Vienna University and a master’s degree in Human Rights from Central European University. Nicky is a former climate activist with Fridays for Future Vienna, especially interested in climate disinformation, socio-ecological transformation, and the intersection between environmental and digital rights.
- Juliana Almeida — a Portuguese Integrates UNEP’s Law Division as an Environmental Law Specialist. She is currently working with matters related to human rights, the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, future generations, and building judicial capacity for the environment. She has previously worked in the European Parliament and the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union in environmental matters. She has a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws in International and European Law from the Nova University of Lisbon, as well as a post-grad in Environmental Law.
- Masana Mulaudzi — a South African senior Manager, Campaign Organizing at the Wikimedia Foundation. Hailing from Johannesburg, South Africa, Masana joined the movement in January 2023 and has enjoyed learning about Wikimedia volunteers and their contribution to knowledge equity globally.
- Olivia Carolina Bonner — based in the USA, has worked at the intersection of human rights and environmental law for more than five years. She is dedicated to ensuring global commons are sustainably and progressively managed for the benefit of all people and the planet and is steadfast in her commitment to the right to a healthy environment to be realized around the world. She is from a small town in Northern California but has had the pleasure of traveling around the world for her work, learning from countless others about the interdependency of human rights and the environment.
- Special nomination “Video”
- Yılmaz Caner Özyayikci — Turkey. Visual Communication Design graduate, Graphic designer, Media Contributor of the Year 2024. Since 2014, he has been contributing to Wikimedia projects. He likes to share his experience and help Wikimedians in various Wiki events in Turkey and helps many communities and users in the Wikimedia movement, especially the Wikimedia community and student clubs in Turkey, in various areas, especially in the field of graphic design. Caner is also interested in cultures and developing them as free knowledge through various designs. In terms of photography, he likes to take and analyze macro photographs the most. He also enjoys comparing the locations of historical photographs to their current state.
- Arjun Suri — Indian filmmaker and photographer based in Mumbai, India. For over a decade, he has been working on projects across a wide range of audio-visual crafts, including screenwriting, directing, editing, cinematography, and photography. One of his directions in photography is travel and landscape, which is especially valuable for Wiki Loves Earth photos evaluation.
- Saddam Husein — Indonesia. Professional documentary photographer/videographer focusing on environmental issues.
International winners
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Macro/close-up category
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Human Rights and Environment
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Video nomination
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