Reglamento 2013

Scope

• Those interested to participate in the contest have to upload pictures of their own authorship about Heritage of Cultural Interest (in Spanish Bienes de Interés Cultural) within the Spanish territory and that have a designated code of the Ministery of Culture, of the corresponding Autonomous Community, other protected heritage or listed in the Wikimedia projects in the section monuments.
• The pictures have to be uploaded in the media repository of Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, or in the Flickr group created for this purpose.

• The images shall have a free license. The allowed licenses are:
  • Creative Commons - Attribution - ShareAlike 3.0 (recommended)
  • Creative Commons – Attribution 3.0
  • Creative Commons - Public Domain Dedication
• The target is to achieve complete listing of monuments of the participating countries in the different Wikipedias and images to illustrate them, having herewith a comprehensive and unique view of the cultural, architectural, historic and artistic heritage of the countries where the contest takes place.
• The images have to be uploaded between September 1^st and 30^th 2024.
• The images will be reviewed by a jury throughout October and at the end of the month the winners will be contacted and disclosed.
• All those participating in this contest do accept these rules and the decisions that the organisation could take. Not fulfilling this criteria could lead to a disqualification.
• Further news or details are listed in the section news or just contact us under infowikimedia.es.

Terms of participation

• Participating is free of cost and does not need any registration in advance.
• Participation is open to everybody.
• Participation is done on an individual basis.
• All images must be own works of the uploader and must be published with a free license as already detailed in the section above.
• The pictures shall not have be published earlier in Wikimedia Commons, independently of the license they had before.
• The images could have been taken any time, in September, months or even years before, relevant is just the uploading date.
• The pictures shall be published with the highest possible quality and resolution.
• The images shall not have any frames, dates, signatures or water marks (since the authorship is credited via the description page).
• The photographed monuments must be included in the listings published by the Wikimedia projects and that can be found in the section Monuments.
• The monuments have to be identified with the corresponding code assigned by the Ministery of Culture or the corresponding Autonomous Community, which is detailed in the listings. Therefore, monuments without an identifier will not be considered as valid.
• There is no limit of uploads.
• In the unlikely event that the photography does not fulfill the policies of Wikimedia Commons, it will be discarded from the contest.

Participating via Wikimedia Commons

• Participation via Wikimedia Commons requires to have an account on Wikimedia Commons.
• Pictures shall be uploaded to Commons between September 1^st 00:00h 2024 (CEST) until 23:59h September 30^th2024 (WEST).
• The user must have the possibility activated to receive emails via his user pages in Commons, since this will be the way the contest organizers will contact him/her.
• The photographs have to be uploaded via the Wiki Loves Monuments images upload wizard, created to support the participation in this contest.
• Those uploading the pictures via a different method will have to identify the pictures participating in the contest adding the following code in the description page in a manual way: {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2013|es}}.
• The authors can withdraw the participating pictures before the end of the contest schedule (September 30^th), therefore it is enough taking the code {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2013|es}} out of the descption page.
• The contest organizers are also authorized to withdraw any candidates (following the same methodology) —also before the end of end of the contest— that do not fulfill the terms of the contest (e.g. the depicted monument is not in Spanish territory, it isn't a monument or is not properly identified). The author can fix the problems of the picture (if possible) and insert again the template {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2013|es}} in the description page before the closure of the contest.
• In order to add the monument identifier, follow this example {{BIC|1234}} (suponiendo que el identificador fuera 1234).
• It is responsibility of the uploader to ensure that the monuments have been documented with the right identifier.

Participating via Flickr

• To participate via Flickr you must be registered in flickr.
• To take part in the contest you need to join the group wikilmes2013.
• Look for the codes of the monuments you have photographed in our listings
• Add to the pictures a label with the format BIC=monument code, e.g.: BIC=RI-51-0012345.
• Make use of a free license in the pictures you want to nominate for the contest.
• Add the pictures to the group wikilmes2013.
• The posting of the pictures has to occur between 00:00h September 1^st (CEST) and 23:59h September 30^th 2024 (WEST).

Pictures of monuments related to the Word War I

In this year's edition the virtual library Europeana will award a special prize for the best participating photograph of a monument related to the First World War.

To identify those pictures and make possible that they candidate in the Europeana award the following code has to be added in the description page of Commons: [[Category:WWI_related_images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013]] resulting in the inclusion of the picture in the Commons category WWI_related_images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013.

Evaluation

The criteria to assess the nominees are the following:

• Technical quality:
  • right exposure
  • sharpness
  • no problems related to lens distortion, noise, dust spots, JPEG artifacts or vignetting, among others
• composition
• aesthetic (wow! effect)
• encyclopaedic value

Advices

• A lot of monuments belong today to private people and therefore cannot be accessed freely. Entering these properties can only be done after having got a proper authorizsation. On the other side, in countries with Freedom of Panorama, like Spain, it is possible to take pictures from a public place, having in this way at least images of the exterior of the monument.

• Some monuments could seem unteresting from outside but be real treasures inside, explore them and take pictures of the details, along with the wide views.