Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in the Gambia

Wiki Loves Monuments The Gambia 2020

Wiki Loves Monuments The Gambia is being organized by volunteers.

How to participate

'Step 1' : Find a monument on the Monuments list of The Gambia: list	'Step 2' : Make photos of the monument. Make as many and as good photos as you can, try different angles. Even if the photo doesn't win you a prize, it will contribute to Wikipedia with more information about The Gambia Heritage!	'Step 3' : Write down what you photographed. Record the site's name, the monument ID, description, and date of photo.	'Step 4' : Don't have a Wikimedia Commons account yet? Create one - takes just a few minutes! 'Make sure that your email address is confirmed.'	'Step 5' : Upload your photos to Wikimedia Commons between 1 and 31 October.

Rules

Ruins of Fort James

There are a few rules for photos to participate in the international contest. These rules are also adopted as rules for participation on a national level. Every submission should be:

• Self taken and self uploaded;
• Uploaded in October 2020;
• Freely licensed;
• Contain an identified monument;
• Nominated through a national contest

Next to that, there is a practical requirement:

• The participant must have an activated email address on Wikimedia Commons. No email address may result in your submissions being disqualified. This can be created in just a few minutes.

For More information: Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments

Wiki Loves Monuments

Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo contest for monuments, organized by Wikimedia this September (2020 extened to November). Wikimedia is the movement behind Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – a global collaboration authored by volunteers.

Cultural heritage is an important part of the knowledge Wikipedia collects and disseminates. Everybody can contribute images as well as write articles. An image is worth a thousand words, in every language at once and local enthusiasts can (re)discover the cultural, historical, or scientific significance of their neighborhood.

In more than 40 countries all over the world, a national contest will be organized with their national monuments, partners, rules, events and winners.

Every national contest will be able to nominate some of their winning pictures for the international contest. These nominated pictures will be judged by the international jury, which will then award extra prizes to the best images from all participating countries.

The contest is inspired by the successful 2010 pilot in the Netherlands, which resulted in 12,500 freely licensed images of monuments that can now be used in Wikipedia and by anybody for any purpose. Since then, the project helped to collect information on 1,5 million monuments from 76 national competitions − with more than 1,7 million pictures submitted by over 60,000 participants, adding to the sum of all human knowledge gathered on Wikipedia.

Any support is welcome: from uploading a single image, spreading the word about the contest, to becoming a partner or sponsor.

What is a Monument in The Gambia?

• All sites of World Heritage Sites in the Gambia and all National Monuments of the Gambia ar are the theme of this campaign. Perhaps the list of the National Monuments of the Gambia is not complete.

Class	World Heritage entry	Site	Commons	Upload
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites	Kunta Kinteh Island with Fort James (formerly James Island)	link to Commons
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites	Six-gun battery, Banjul	link to Commons
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites	Fort Bullen, Barra	link to Commons
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites	Ruins of San Domingo, Albreda/Juffure	link to Commons
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites	Remains of Portuguese Chapel, Albreda/Juffure	link to Commons
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites	CFAO Building, Albreda/Juffure	link to Commons
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites	Maurel Frères Building, Albreda/Juffure	link to Commons
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Stone Circles of Senegambia	Kerbatch	link to Commons
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Stone Circles of Senegambia	Wassu	link to Commons
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Sites on the Tentative List	Wassu Stone Circles Quarry Site, Wassu
World Heritage Sites in the Gambia	Sites on the Tentative List	Historic Georgetown, Janjanbureh	link to Commons
National Monuments of the Gambia		Arch 22, Banjul	link to Commons
National Monuments of the Gambia		Barajally
National Monuments of the Gambia		Formerly "Ceded Mile", from Lamin Point to Sika Point, with Albreda/Juffure
National Monuments of the Gambia		King George Memorial Fountain, Banjul	link to Commons
National Monuments of the Gambia		Musa Molloh’s Tomb
National Monuments of the Gambia		State House, Banjul

Warning

It may be that it is not allowed to photograph individual objects and make them available on the Internet under a free license. If you are unsure, ask for permission and find out about gambian copyright laws.