Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in Russia

Website: see contest page in the Wikimedia RU wiki

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Welcome to Wiki Loves Monuments in Russia 2016! Detailed information about the competition is available on our landing page at Wikimedia RU wiki. It is in Russian, so we provide a quick translation below. Further links can be useful too: Lists of cultural heritage monuments Organizers If you have questions, feel free to contact us at any of the talk pages or by e-mail.

Basics

• Take pictures of cultural heritage monuments in Russia and upload them to Wikimedia Commons
• Lists of cultural heritage monuments are available. You will find an upload link ("Загрузить файл") on the right-hand side of the monument's description. This link will take you to the upload wizard with pre-filled file description, Commons categories, and monument ID. You are welcome to modify or augment the file description, though.
• You should take photos yourself and release them under a free license like CC-BY-SA-4.0.
• Photos can be taken at any time, but they should be uploaded between September 1, 00:00 and September 30, 23:59 UTC

Last, but not least:

• If you are new to Wikimedia Commons, remember to update your profile and provide your e-mail address. We will need it for informing you about the prize. A link to "Email this user" should be visible in the left panel of your user page.
• Photos of any reasonable quality can be uploaded, but the jury reserves the right to consider only those photos that are above 1 MB in size and 2 megapixel in resolution.

Nominations

We envisage the prizes for:

• 10 best photos will be selected by the jury based on technical quality and aesthetics criteria
• The largest coverage of Russian regions (photos taken in as many regions as possible)
• The largest coverage of monuments (we count only those monuments that have not been pictured in previous years)
• Special nomination for page banners (see below)

10 best photos will take part in the international competition.

Page banners

This is a satellite contest inspired by the particular kind of photos used in Wikivoyage, the free travel guide. In Wikivoyage, standard Wikipedia-style table of contents is replaced by a beautiful page banner (see example here). These banners are standard images, but they have a special 7:1 format. They can depict anything from a simple panorama to a suitably chosen detail, or even a topic related to the destination. We encourage you to help us with devising and preparing such banner images:

• Take your image and crop it to the 7:1 format. The cropped image should make sense on its own and in the context of the pagebanner, it should not be a random crop!
• Upload your banner using a special link

Our jury will determine the winner based on the quality and quantity of the uploaded banners.

Contact

Have questions? Feel free to ask here, or send us an e-mail. We speak Russian, English, German and will do our best to translate from other languages. Good luck!