Event:Wiki Loves Heritage Belgium/2024

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1. Pikkeling Festival dansers WLLH 2023
(Herman.vandenbroeck)

Wiki Loves Heritage Belgium 2024 is a photo contest campaign about heritage in Belgium, organised by Wikimedia Belgium, that runs from 1 July till 30 September 2024.

It has been organised yearly since 2018, as an extension of Wiki Loves Monuments, which was organised from 2011-2016. Wiki Loves Monuments is since 2023 organised again in Belgium, as part of Wiki Loves Heritage.

Heritage?

Wiki Loves Heritage

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.

• 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.

Participate

Participate by uploading photos of heritage from Belgium, enrich Wikipedia and Wikidata, and make heritage more visible for the public!

1. Register youself at the right top of this page.
2. Go out and take photos.
3. Click on the Upload button to upload your photos. Make sure you are logged into Wikimedia Commons. If needed create an account.
4. Choose a good name for your image. Add a proper description, and one or more valid categories, to allow finding your image easily.
5. 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.
6. Use the ISA Tool button and Wikidata to further describe and link your images.

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.

Requirements

1. All uploads must be your own work.
2. All photos must be uploaded within the contest period of 1 July until the last day at 30 October 2024, to be eligible (the picture can be taken earlier).
3. All photos must have a freely license, preferably CC BY 4.0, or CC BY-SA 4.0.
4. Photos do not contain a watermark (text added by the photographer).
5. 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.
6. The JPEG must have a minimum resolution of 2 Mpixels, and be of sufficient quality.
7. We accept pictures of heritage, to be useful for Wikipedia; artistic artifacts are not wanted.
8. Participants have registered to Wikimedia with an active email account.
9. Each participant guarantees to have all the required authorisations of any persons depicted, or of the owners of the photographed interiors, works, objects, or 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. Video files are also accepted.
4. Structured data on Commons is also collected for each media file:
   • Captions in different languages (at best copy the short description, once more)
   • Depicting "This is", a Wikidata attribute that indicates what the picture represents

All this ensures that your photo is easily findable.

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