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Commons:Wiki Loves Classics 2019

Wiki Loves Classics 2019, the first edition of Wiki Loves Classics, is a photo contest whose purpose is to increase the amount of freely-licensed material related to ancient Greek and Roman monuments (and other ancient civilizations especially from the Mediterranenan area) on Wikimedia Commons. It also aims to improve the quality and quantity of Wikidata items and Wikipedia articles about them, including the illustration of the items/articles related to the uploaded pictures.

Photographers in the best places will get a participation certificate and a printed copy of their image of hand-made high quality paper by the Impresa Sociale Magnani of Pescia.

Flyers edit

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    Flyer WLC2019 red ENG ITA DEU
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    Flyer WLC2019 blue ENG FRA ELL

Participating countries 2019 edit

All countries taking part to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 are inserted in this table.

Here is a list of countries which certainly have items related to classical antiquity (it also include previous civilizations). Please scroll the lists in order to know the pictures of monuments that you can upload. The presence in the lists depends on the legal situation in different countries, and some countries might not take part this year and we are not encouraging an upload without a national organizer.

For every question contact us in the talk page.

Country General list of monuments All files uploaded Wiki Loves Classics files Percentage
  Albania List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 9/108 = 8.3%
  Armenia List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 524/21089 = 2.5%
  Algeria List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 187/483 = 38.7%
  Austria List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 0/4635 = 0%
  Croatia List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 10/547 = 1.8%
  France List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 314/8325 = 3.8%
  Germany List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 18/16144 = 0.1%
  Greece Lists of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 412/1717 = 24.1%
  Italy List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 833/25885 = 3.2%
  Ireland List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 34/1099 = 3.1%
  Kosovo List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 1/94 = 1.1%
  Malta List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 0/136 = 0%
  Morocco List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 39/778 = 5.0%
  Portugal List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 252/6372 = 4.0%
  Romania List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 168/2960 = 5.7%
  Slovenia List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 0/494 = 0%
  Spain List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 388/8774 = 4.4%
  Switzerland List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 3/1799 = 0.2%
  Ukraine List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 45/31810 = 0.1%
  United Kingdom List of monuments Uploaded files WLC files 82/10437 = 0.8%
3319/143686 = 2.3% in 20 countries

Selection process edit

Jury edit

Wikimedians are mostly involved in the first steps of the selection processes, members from the academia join progressively the later steps.

Categories edit

We will select a winner and a runner-up for these five categories:

  • landscapes and views
  • coexistence or contrast of modern and classic
  • architectural details
  • museum collections and objects
  • epigraphs and writings

Another category was initially debated, namely "women in classics", but we could see at the categorization phase that there was not enough material. The "epigraphs" category was also at risk of being dropped but had enough decent upload and a clear defined nature. Next edition the categories will be proposed since the beginning and not adapted on the existing upload, so we can encourage a better aim in this direction.

Steps edit

The phases of the selection process are summarized in this subpage

Winners of our parallel competition edit

Results were publisehd on January, 21st and announced the following day. tweet

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    Coexistence or contrast of modern and classics Krzysztof Golik
          Arènes de Nîmes with modern statue
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    Coexistence or contrast of modern and classics Krzysztof Golik
          Maison Carrée in Nîmes surrounded by the modern town
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    Museum collections and objects Francesco Bini
          Golden bracelet in the eponymous house of Pompeii
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    Museum collections and objects GPierrakos
          Collection in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens
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    Epigraphs and writings Francesco Bini
          Funerary steele at Museo archeologico di Santa Scolastica in Bari
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    Epigraphs and writings Francesco Bini
          Ancient Greek inscriptions in Museo Archeologico in Naples

Finalists of national competitions edit

These photos became national finalists in 2019.

We will compare our selections with this one at the end of the process.

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