Wiki Loves Monuments

Saint John Church of Sohrol, a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar, Iran by Farzin Izaddoust dar, CC BY-SA 4.0

Saint John Church of Sohrol, a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar, Iran by Farzin Izaddoust dar, CC BY-SA 4.0

Jury

The competition consists of a series of national competitions and an international finale. Each national contest is allowed to nominate ten images for the international finale. The international jury, made up of seven members with different skills and backgrounds, will determine the winners of this final round out of the nominated images and award the prizes.

National juries need to send their results to the international team before 2 December 2024, and the final result are intended to be published at the latest by end of February.

Criteria

The jury will determine the winners of the international contest taking into the consideration the following criteria (in no particular order):

  • Technical quality (sharpness, use of light, perspective etc.);
  • Originality;
  • Usefulness of the image for Wikipedia.

Images that reach a top ranking of the international finale, will typically at least fulfill the technical criteria of the ‘Featured Image’ process at Wikimedia Commons.

The international team reserves the right to disqualify any images at any point in the process if they are uploaded without confirmed email address in the account on Wikimedia Commons, if the images are deleted or are otherwise ineligible.

Process

Each national competition is allowed to nominate up to 10 pictures from their national winners for the international finale. This results in a pool of 250-500 images. These images are rated 1-5 stars by the international jury members based on the criteria above. Based on these ratings, a ranking is drawn up, and a selection of images is made.

After this first round, the jury has some time to discuss these outcomes, and remove images from the selection or even disqualify them if they feel that they don’t meet a minimum level of quality expected of a top-25 image in Wiki Loves Monuments.

Finally, each jury member will make their ordered top-25 ranking. The total of points will determine the final ranking. Only the final ranking will be published, with comments collected from jurors.

International Jury 2024 composition

The international jury for 2024 consists of Wikimedia users, heritage experts and professional photographers.

  • Alireza Akhlaghi: Winner of WLM 2018, he is a photographer and astronomer with 15 years of experience. Although his main profession is prosthodontics, he dedicates most of his time in amateur photography and astronomy. He has been in Iran’s national stage jury of WLM for two years.
  • Azim Khan Ronnie: He has an utter passion for photography and photography has been his passion. As a photographer, his essential aim is to capture the moments of life and give them significance by making them static in time. He loves to travel and be in different places, meet new people, and enjoy the experience that photography offers, which is to capture Earth’s beautiful and awe-inspiring moments. He has taken part in many International Photography contests and till now he has won more than 700 international photography awards. His photographs were published in more than 300 different international newspapers & magazines.
  • Clara Villalba: Architect and Master in Conservation of Monuments and Sites. Career civil servant in the Department of Development, Logistics, Housing and Territorial Cohesion of the Government of Aragon. Member of the Spanish National Committee of ICOMOS, where she has worked on issues related to SDGs, the impact of renewable energies on cultural heritage in sparsely populated areas, communication and dissemination and the integration of young professionals in the organisation.
  • Farah Mustaklem: He is a software engineer from Palestine. A Wikimedian since 2005, he is an advocate for open knowledge and defender of digital rights.
  • Harald Krichel: He is a photographer from Germany and a Wikipedian since 2003. He’s been part of the jury for WLM Germany twice, though his own work for Commons consists
    mostly of photographs of people.
  • Jorge Benet: Multimedia artist, researcher on innovation and maintenance of open technologies and advocate of libre software. History enthusiast and Wikipedia contributor since 2008.
  • Karen Bernedo Morales: She is a curator, film maker and visual anthropologist from Perú, focusing on archives, monuments, history and gender. She is co-founder of the collective alternative museography project Museo Itinerante Arte por la Memoria. She has been part of the Wiki Loves Monuments jury in Perú.
  • Nwonwu Uchechukwu P: She is a Mass Communication graduate. Creative thinker with a passion for enhancing digital media projects and contributing to open knowledge communities. She is affiliated with the Igbo Wikimedia User group and has been a member of the Wikimedian movement since 2022. Currently she is the Regional Ambassador for Central Africa at Wiki Loves Folklore 2024.
  • Valentine Uwimpuhwe: She volunteers with Wikimedia User Group Rwanda, managing social media and content creation. She has served as a jury member in local and international Wikimedia competitions, earning a special nomination for the Human Rights and Environment jury team for Wiki Loves Earth 2023.

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