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.
The photo contest has been organised yearly since 2018, as an extension of Wiki Loves Monuments, which was organised in Belgium from 2011-2016, and again since 2023, and is running in September.
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!
Register yourself at the right top of this page. Make sure you are logged in. If needed create a Wikimedia user account.
Go out and take photos.
Click on the Upload button above to upload your photos. Make sure you are logged into Wikimedia Commons.
Choose a good name for your image. Add a proper description, and one or more valid categories, to allow finding your image easily.
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.
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 the award ceremony the winners will receive their prize.
Requirements
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 September 2024 (the picture can be taken earlier).
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 e-mail account.
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
Wiki Loves Heritage
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.
Please register the GPS coordinates if your device has this capability.
Video files are also accepted.
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 contribution is easily findable.
Prizes
At the award ceremony, 10 winners will receive a cash prize (first prize is €500) and a photo frame of their winning photo. Requirement is that the jury should be able to contact the winner. Therefore participants should register with a valid e-mail address.
