Commons:Wiki Loves Heritage 2020 in Belgium

The photo contest Wiki Loves Heritage 2020 is closed. See for the winning photos: Belgian winners (jury report)

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Logo Wikimedia Belgium Wiki Loves Heritage Belgium is a photo contest in Belgium taking place from 1 July until 31 October 2020. During the contest you are welcome to upload photos from heritage in Belgium. Heritage includes immovable heritage and movable heritage, as well as immaterial heritage as maritime heritage, and permanent museum exhibitions. Upload Participate by uploading photos of heritage from Belgium, enrich Wikipedia, and make heritage more visible for the public! Heritage? Wiki Loves Heritage Eligible heritage in this photo contest are: Immovable - archaeological sites, monuments, cultural-historical landscapes, war relics and city and villagescapes. Movable - collections of art objects, utensils, decorative objects, archival documents, visual material, historic tools and vehicles, etc., which are stored in museums, archives and heritage libraries. Immaterial - non-tangible habits or customs of the past that one cherishes and still practices today. For example, parties, stories, songs, traditions, social customs, rituals, crafts, ... Maritime - nautical heritage that can sail or float. This concerns both seagoing vessels and vessels for inland waters with various propulsion types, or without their own propulsion, which were used for pleasure or for professional purposes. How to participate Step 1: Sign in or Create a New Wikimedia Account (if you have no account yet on Wikipedia/Commons) Step 2: Go out and take photos Step 3: Click here to upload your photos Step 4: Use the uploaded photos to illustrate Wikipedia articles. You do not necessarily have to write a new article! You can just copy/paste the generated link at the end of the upload script to an existing article, in any language. After the contest period a jury will judge the photos and select the winning photos. During an award ceremony the winners will receive a prize. Uploaded photos Images from Wiki Loves Heritage Belgium in 2020 Organisation The photo contest is organised by Wikimedia Belgium, with the collaboration of meemoo, FARO, Herita vzw, de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, some local musea, and volunteers of Wikipedia. Contact Follow Wikimedia Belgium on Twitter and share with Facebook and #WikiLovesHeritage Contact us at: infowikimedia.be

Eligible in the photo contest In this photo contest all photos that contain a clearly identifiable heritage subject are eligible, as described in the left column, and include for example: Archeology Heritage monuments Landscapes immovable heritage like archeology, heritage monuments, landscapes, and maritime heritage. Artworks Historic documents Oldtimer Museums movable heritage like artworks, archival documents, historic vehicles, and any historic object from  museums, archives, etc. Speech balloon Music Celebration Anvil immaterial heritage like stories & language,   music, dance, theatre & circus,   rituals, festivals & celebrations,   and traditional craftsmanship. Conditions All uploads must be your own work. All photos must be uploaded within the contest period of 1 July until the last day at 30 October 2020, to be eligible (the picture can be taken earlier). All photos must be freely licensed, preferably CC BY 4.0, or CC BY-SA 4.0. Photos do not contain a watermark (text added by the photographer). All photos have a clear description what is depicted on the photo, including the town or municipality where the photo has been taken. If applicable the description also contains the name and address of the immaterial heritage, and the museum, archive or organisation where the movable heritage has been stored. Please mention the catalog, or official heritage number. The JPEG must have a minimum resolution of 2 Mpixels, and be of sufficient quality. We accept pictures of heritage, to be useful for Wikipedia; artistic artifacts are not wanted. Participants have registered to Wikimedia with an active email account. Each participant guarantees to have all the required authorisations of any persons depicted, or of the owners of the photographed interiors, works, objects, goods.

Further recommendations

1. Since 15 July 2016 Belgium has freedom of panorama, including permanent public exhibitions. This means that, in principle, you are allowed to take photographs from a public place. You must respect other laws like the general copyright and image rights. Museums may impose certain restrictions.
2. Please register the GPS coordinates if your device has this capability.
3. Also video files are accepted.
4. Give a useful, unique, logical, and clear file name, allowing easy search by name.
5. As of this year, Wikidata metadata is also collected for each photo:
   • Captions in different languages (at best copy the short description, once more)
   • Depicting "This is", a Wikidata attribute that indicates what the picture represents
6. Please add at least one (existing, non-overlapping) category to your picture

All this ensures that your photo is easily findable.