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📣 Join the Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 Office Hour!

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Hello, Wikimedia contributors!

We are excited to kick off Wiki Loves Folklore 2025, an annual global campaign celebrating the world’s rich and diverse cultural heritage. 🌍✨

To help organizers and contributors prepare for this year’s campaign, we’re hosting a Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 Office Hour, and we’d love for you to join us!

🗓 Event Details

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Join here

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  • Dial-in: ‪+1 513-480-5188‬
  • PIN: 876 566 200#

What’s in it for you?

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Whether you’re an organizer, a contributor, or someone passionate about documenting cultural traditions, this session is for YOU!

  • Learn About the 2025 Campaign: Get insights into this year’s theme, objectives, and exciting new elements.
  • Ask Questions: Have questions or need clarifications? We’ve got you covered!
  • Connect with Fellow Contributors: Hear stories and experiences from around the globe.
  • Collaborate Globally: Share your ideas and contribute to making this campaign even more impactful.

Did You Know?

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Wiki Loves Folklore has already documented over 121,000+ media files from more than 165 countries. Your contributions help preserve endangered traditions and unique cultural expressions for future generations.

How to Prepare

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Let’s join hands to preserve and celebrate the beauty of folklore together. We look forward to seeing you at the Office Hour!

Warm regards,
On behalf of the Wiki Loves Folklore International Team


MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:43, 16 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

📣 Join the Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 Office Hour!

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Hello, Wikimedia contributors!

We are excited to kick off Wiki Loves Folklore 2025], an annual global campaign celebrating the world’s rich and diverse cultural heritage. 🌍✨

To help organizers and contributors prepare for this year’s campaign, we’re hosting a Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 Office Hour, and we’d love for you to join us!

🗓 Event Details

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Join here

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  • Dial-in: ‪+1 513-480-5188‬
  • PIN: 876 566 200#

What’s in it for you?

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Whether you’re an organizer, a contributor, or someone passionate about documenting cultural traditions, this session is for YOU!

  • Learn About the 2025 Campaign: Get insights into this year’s theme, objectives, and exciting new elements.
  • Ask Questions: Have questions or need clarifications? We’ve got you covered!
  • Connect with Fellow Contributors: Hear stories and experiences from around the globe.
  • Collaborate Globally: Share your ideas and contribute to making this campaign even more impactful.

Did You Know?

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Wiki Loves Folklore has already documented over 121,000+ media files from more than 165 countries. Your contributions help preserve endangered traditions and unique cultural expressions for future generations.

How to Prepare

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Let’s join hands to preserve and celebrate the beauty of folklore together. We look forward to seeing you at the Office Hour!

Warm regards,
On behalf of the Wiki Loves Folklore International Team


MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:01, 16 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 Has Launched – Join Us!

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Hello SHB2000,

Greetings from the Wiki Loves Folklore International Team! We are excited to announce Wiki Loves Folklore 2025, an international contest on Wikimedia Commons dedicated to capturing the beauty of folklore and intangible cultural heritage from around the world. Whether it’s vibrant folk festivals, traditional dances, soulful music, time-honoured culinary practices, unique attire, oral storytelling, or other cultural treasures, this is your chance to document and share the living heritage that unites us all.

How Can I Contribute?

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It’s simple! Grab your camera, smartphone, or recording device, and start capturing photos, videos, or audio that tell the story of your local folklore. Once you’ve collected your media, head over to the Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 page and click on the Upload Now icon to submit your entry. For complete rules and guidelines, please visit our project page on Wikimedia Commons.

Timeline

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  • Submission Period: February 1, 2025, 00:01 (UTC)March 31, 2025, 23:59 (UTC)
  • Results Declaration: Around July 15, 2025

Exciting 2025 Prizes

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International Prizes

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Photo Category
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  • 1st Prize: 500 USD
  • 2nd Prize: 400 USD
  • 3rd Prize: 300 USD
  • 4th Prize: 200 USD
  • 5th Prize: 100 USD
  • Top 10 Noteworthy Contribution Prizes: 50 USD each
Video Category
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  • 1st Video Prize (Best Oral Storytelling): 150 USD
  • 2nd Video Prize (Best Video Storytelling): 100 USD
  • 3rd Video Prize (Sustainable Folklore Video): 100 USD
Audio Category
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  • 1st Audio Prize (Overall Best): 150 USD
  • 2nd Audio Prize (Best Folklore Podcast Series): 150 USD

Community Prizes

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Top Uploader Category
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  • 1st Top Uploader Prize: 250 USD
  • 2nd Top Uploader Prize: 150 USD
  • 3rd Top Uploader Prize: 100 USD

Additionally:

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  • Volunteer Excellence Awards: Two awards (gift voucher and certificate) recognizing volunteers who have gone above and beyond in organizing events, coordinating participants, or otherwise contributing to the competition’s success.
  • Wiki Loves Folklore Postcards: To the top 100 uploaders.
  • Certificates and Postcards: For Local Organizers.

Disclaimer: All prizes will be distributed exclusively in the form of major brand gift cards or vouchers, equivalent to the local currency amount.

Regional Prizes

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Regional prizes will be awarded to the top three jury-selected media entries from the following regions:

  • MENA: Middle East & North Africa
  • SSA: Sub-Saharan Africa
  • SA: South Asia
  • ESEAP: East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific
  • LAC: Latin America & Caribbean
  • NA: North America
  • NWE: Northern & Western Europe
  • CEECA: Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Awards per Region:

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  • Regional Champion Award: 150 USD
  • Regional Runner-Up Award: 100 USD
  • Regional Contributor Award: 50 USD

What We Won’t Accept

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To maintain the integrity of the competition, please note that we will not accept media that are:

  • Out of the Commons Project scope
  • Lacking EXIF information
  • Excessively processed or digitally altered
  • Pornographic or explicit
  • Artwork submissions that pose copyright issues

We invite you to celebrate and preserve our rich and diverse folklore traditions. Your contribution will help create a lasting record of our cultural heritage for generations to come.

For more details on the contest rules, prizes, and submission process, please visit our project page on Wikimedia Commons. If you have any questions, email us or join our Telegram group.

Let’s come together and keep our traditions alive – #WeTogether!

Warm regards,
On behalf of the Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

-MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:19, 08 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Loves Earth in Canada 2025 is open! // Wiki aime la Terre commence !

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Wiki Loves Earth Logo // Le logo de Wiki aime la Terre

Hello! Wiki Loves Monuments in Canada is finally back for 2025 through the month of June! Your participation will help us to document Canada's natural protected areas and show it to the world through Wikipedia and other projects.

The contest has just begun and there is still plenty of time to participate. If you have already submitted photos, thank you so much. Check out our 2025 contest page for more information. If you have any questions about the contest, please email info@wikimedia.ca.

Thanks, Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) 06:36, 10 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Bonjour ! Wiki aime les monuments au Canada est de retour pour 2025 pendant le mois de juin ! Votre participation nous aidera à documenter les zones naturelles protégées du Canada et à les montrer au monde entier grâce à Wikipédia et d'autres projets Wiki.

Le concours vient juste de commencer et il reste encore beaucoup de temps pour y participer. Si vous avez déjà téléverser des photos, merci beaucoup ! Consultez notre page consacrée au concours 2025 pour plus d'informations. Si vous avez des questions sur le concours, envoyez un courriel à info@wikimedia.ca

Merci, Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) 06:36, 10 June 2025 (UTC)Reply


You are receiving this message because you have previously participated in Wiki Loves Earth in Canada. // Vous recevez ce message parce que vous avez déjà participé à Wiki aime la Terre au Canada.

Notification about possible deletion

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Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry.

If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:


Yours sincerely, GPSLeo (talk) 09:38, 14 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

File tagging File:Bollywood tourism banner.jpg

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Yann (talk) 17:01, 21 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Yann: Probs should be speedied given the original file was deleted. --SHB2000 (talk) 01:02, 22 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
OK, done. Yann (talk) 15:29, 22 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Cheers, Yann :) --SHB2000 (talk) 21:34, 22 July 2025 (UTC)Reply