Reglamento 2014

Scope

• Those interested in taking part in the contest shall upload pictures taken by them of a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spanish heritage register) object in Spanish territory and with an associated code of the Ministry of Culture or the corresponding Autonomous Community, or other objects under protection or listed in any of the listings provided by the Wikimedia projects here.
• The images shall be uploaded in the media repository of Wikimedia Commons, or in the dedicated dedicated Flickr group.

• Images shall have a free license. The allowed licenses are:
  • Creative Commons – Attribution – ShareAlike 4.0 (recommended) or the former version 3.0
  • Creative Commons – Atribución 4.0 (recommended) or the former version Creative 3.0
  • Creative Commons - Public Domain
• The purpose is to have comprehensive lists of all monuments of all participating countries in the different Wikipedias, and images of them to be able to illustrated them, providing so a complete and unique vision of the cultural, architectural, historic and artistic heritage of the organizing countries. Therefore we will value especially the first images of monuments that had so far no picture in Wikimedia Commons or those illustrating the monument in a way that was not available before (e.g. showing the interior when before only exterior pictures were available).
• Images must be uploaded between September 1st and 30th of 2024.
• Images will be reviewed by a jury throughout October and at the end of the month the winners will be contacted by the organisation and published.
• Those participating in the contest do accept these terms and the decisions that the organisation may take. In case of not fulfilling these terms the picture could be disqualified.
• In this section (in Spanish) you can find out news about the contest and for any questions you may have you can send us an email to infowikimedia.es.

Terms of participation

• Participating is free or charge, without need of previous notice.
• Participation is open to all people interested without any restrictions of citizenship or country of residence.
• Participation is only possible as a particular person.
• All images must have been taken by the uploader and must be published with a free license as mentioned before.
• Images shall not have been published earlier in Wikimedia Commons, independently of the license used earlier.
• Images could have been taken months or years before the contest, only the upload throughout the month of September is required.
• Images shall be published with the highest possible quality and resolution.
• Images shall not have a watermark, date, frame or other edited symbols (attribution to the author is done via the description page and not in the image).
• Photographed monuments shall be included in the provided listings of the Wikimedia projects that can be found here.
• The monument shall be identified via the code of the Ministry of Culture or the corresponding Autonomous Community and that is available in the listings. Therefore, monuments without an identifier are not acceptable.
• There is no limit in the amount of photographs presented per user.
• In the unlikely case that a photograph does not meet any of the policies of Wikimedia Commons, it will not participate in the contest.

Participation via Wikimedia Commons

• In order to participate via Wikimedia Commons, you will need to have an account there (learn here how).
• The pictures must be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons between September 1st 2024 00:00h (CEST) and September 30th 23:59h 2024 (WEST).
• The user shall have activated the email option in the preferences, so that the organization of the contest can get in touch via a form sent to the email provided. This is the way to communicate with the contest winners.
• The photographs can be published via the upload wizard of Wiki Loves Monuments, created to ease the participation in the contest. Alternatively, the pictures can be uploaded into Wikimedia Commons with any other tools the user is familiar with.
• If the pictures are not uploaded with the Wiki Loves Monuments upload wizard, then the following code shall be included manually in the description page of each uploaded picture {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2024|es}}.
• The authors can withdraw the pictures, if desired, before the end of the contest (September 30th) just removing {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2024|es}} from the desciption page.
• The contest organization is entitled to withdraw any photograph of the contest (following the same procedure) —even before the end of the contest— in the case that the photograph is not aligned with the contest requirements (e.g. the monument is not located in Spain, the picture does not depict a monument or the identification is missing). The contest participant can re-include the picture in the contest if the problems reported by the organisation have been solved adding {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2024|es}} to the description page (there is no need to upload it again).
• The monument shall be identified with the help of this code {{BIC|1234}} (assuming that the monument identifier is 1234).
• It is responsibility of each participant to ensure that each photography is properly labeled.

Participation via Flickr

• In order to participate via Flickr, you will need to have an account there.
• You will have to join the group created exclusively for this event.
• Search for the monument code listed here
• Add a label following this naming convention: BIC=monument code, for example: BIC=RI-51-0012345.
• Upload the photograph in Flick with a free license.
• Add the photographs for the contest in the wlm2024 Flickr group.
• The pictures shall be included in the group between September 1st 2024 00:00h (CEST) and September 30th 23:59h 2024 (WEST).

Photographs of Paradores de Turismo

In the current edition of the contest the hotel chain Paradores de Turismo will grant a prize to a special category, an award package of 2 nights including breakfast in any of the hotels of Paradores de Turismo in Spain to the best picture of any building of Paradores de Turismo, which are listed here.

In order to identify the participants of this special category, the following code shall be added to the photograph description page in Wikimedia Commons: [[Category:Imágenes_de_Paradores_de_Turismo_para_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014]] that results in the inclusion of the picture in this Commons category: Imágenes_de_Paradores_de_Turismo_para_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014.

Evaluation

The criteria established to evaluate the contest photographs is the following:

• Technical quality
  • Proper exposure
  • Sharpness
  • Lack of problems like lens distortions, noise, dust spots, JPEG artifacts, chromatic aberratioin or vignetting
• composition(the monument captured is the main subject of the picture without distracting elements that draw the attention to other elements, especially, but not only, people)
• optical beauty
• encyclopedic value

Recommendations

• Many documents are private property or are located in private properties. In this case you will need to get an authorization to take pictures of the interior. It is possible though to take pictures from the exterior of the monument without authorization from a public place thank to the Freedom of Panorama.

• In some cases the exterior of the monument could not be really interesting but the interior could hide real jewels to be photographee. So, explore them and capture not just the overall subject but also interesting details of it.