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أسئلة حول المشروع

ما هي الويكي تهوى المعالم؟

ويكي تهوى المعالم هي مسابقة صور عامة يطلب من قراء وموظفين ويكيبيديا التقاط صور للمعالم من البلدان المشاركة وتحملها إلى ويكيميديا كومونز. تم تنظيم المسابقة لأول مرة في عام 2010 في هولندا، وتُنظم حالياً في عشرات البلدان حول العالم. جمعت ويكي المعالمتهوى حوالي 2 مليون صورة على مدى السنوات الماضية التي يمكن استخدامها على ويكيبيديا وويكيميديا كومونز، وتعترف بها من قبل كتاب غينيس للأرقام السجلية العالمية كأكبر مسابقة التصوير الفوتوغرافي في العالم.

ما هو نطاق هذا المشروع؟

تتركز مسابقة الصور على التراث المُبني. يتم دعوة المصورين والمهتمين والحماسين للتراث لتقديم صور للمباني التي هي على قوائم التراث المبني المتاحة من خلال ويكيبيديا وويكي بيانات. ويكي تهوى المعالم مسابقة تنظم في عشرات البلدان، وتختلف تعريف ما يشكل "معالم التذكريّة" كثيراً. المسؤول عن العثور على التعريف الأكثر ملائمة لبلدهم هو المنظمين الوطنيين، وعادة ما تكون هذه قائمة رسمية للتراث المحمي أو المعترف به تقدمها الحكومة. لا يمكن تقديم صور للآثار إلا في "الدول المشاركة".
ومع ذلك، هناك عدة توصيات عامة مشتركة بين جميع البلدان المشاركة من أجل جعل المسابقات متوافقة مع بعضها البعض؛ وسترد هذه التوصيات (أو ”القواعد“) أدناه.

من خلف هذا؟

Wiki Loves Monuments exists of many national competitions, and is on a national level typically organized by the members of the local Wikimedia community with the help from local Wikimedia affiliates. In some countries heritage enthousiasts and heritage organizations have taken up an active role in organizing the competition.
The competition is facilitated on an international level by the Wiki Loves Monuments International Team and supported by volunteers around the world. This team develops and maintains the infrastructure that is used by national teams (for example, tools for finding monuments and judging) and ensures a smooth international finale.
بشكل عام، يتم تنظيم الويكي تهوى المعالم بواسطة مئات المتطوعين حول العالم.

هل يمكنني الحصول على بعض الحقائق السريعة عن المسابقة؟

Sure! You can find an overview of all countries participating in the various years, with the number of submissions per countries on this overview page. We summarized the main information in a table on كومنز:الويكي تهوى المعالم.

هل يمكنني تحميل صور من أكثر من بلد واحد؟

Yes! You are free to upload as many pictures as you want, from as many countries as you want — as long as they are participating in Wiki Loves Monuments this year.
لا توجد قيود على عدد المسابقات الوطنية التي يمكنك المشاركة فيها، إذا حدث أن لديك صور من بلدان أخرى (حتى لو تم التقاطها في الماضي) ، يمكنك تقديمها للمسابقة وزيادة فرصك في الفوز بجائزة!

أسئلة تنظيمية

بلدي يرغب في المشاركة. هل تأخرت كثيراً؟

يتم تنظيم مسابقة ويكي تهوى المعالم تقليدياً في سبتمبر ، ولكن منذ عام 2020 في أكتوبر أيضًا. كلما بدأت في تنظيم الأمور، كلما كانت أفضل. يعتمد الأمر على البلد على مقدار العمل الذي يحتاج إليه لإنشاء مسابقة أدنى - خاصةً أن العثور على قوائم المعالم والنشر يمكن أن يكون استغرافاً للوقت لأول مرة. يرجى الاتصال بالفريق الدولي إذا كنت تريد الحصول على تقدير ما إذا كنت لا تزال يمكن الانضمام.
If you want to know when to start - earlier is better! You can take a look at our detailed time-line, but that is for a full effort organization, and in an ideal world. Most countries that join for the first time, need a couple of months to involve volunteers, start partnerships and find sponsors, prepare the lists of monuments and set up proper categories on Wikimedia Commons.
إذا كنت تشعر بأنك تريد القيام بذلك في بلدك، كلما بدأت في وقت مبكر، كلما كان أفضل. نهاية أبريل هو هدف لطيف للبدء بجدية. في بعض الأحيان لا تزال بإمكانك الانضمام إلى أوائل أغسطس، ولكن هذا يعتمد على بلدك، ويتطلب من فريقك استثمار المزيد من الوقت في فترة زمنية ضيقة.

كيف أشارك؟

It's really simple, easy, and fun! If you want to organize a Wiki Loves Monuments in your area, please have a look at the list of participating countries; if you find your country already on the list, please contact the contact person that is listed, and get involved with them! They usually appreciate all the help they can get.
However, if your country is not yet on the list, it usually means that there wasn't yet enough interest or volunteer capacity in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments. Now is your chance to initiate the competition! A good first step is to get in touch with the international team, to see if anyone else has already privately shown interest from your country. That way you can be put in touch, and join efforts. You can also take a look at this documentation page of what is needed to organize Wiki Loves Monuments in your country. You can also subscribe to the international discussion mailing list and introduce yourself there. This is an excellent place to ask questions and help. Definitely subscribe to the Wiki Loves Monuments announcement mailing list which is without elaborate discussions, but focuses on the most important messages, especially closer to the competition.
لا تحتاج إلى أن تكون عضواً في فصيل ويكيميديا محليّك لتنظيم "مسابقة ويكي تهوى المعالم" في بلدك، ولكن إذا كان هناك فصيل في منطقتك، من فضلك حاول الاتصال بهم والحصول على دعمهم! من ناحية أخرى، إذا كنت عضواً في فصيل ويكيميديا محلي، يرجى التأكد من إشراك المجتمع في المشروع قدر الإمكان - سوف تحتاج بالتأكيد إلى مساعدتهم في إكمال قوائم المعالم، وتصحيح الأخطاء المحتملة، وفي العديد من جوانب التحضيرات.

أعتقد أنني بحاجة إلى مساعدة كيف يمكنك دعمني؟

أولاً، شكراً لك على الشجاعة التي تلقيتها لطلب المساعدة هناك الكثير من الخبرة الآن، ونحن جميعا نود أن نرى نجاحك. يمكن للفرقة الدولية مساعدتك في العديد من الأمور، وخاصة تلك المتعلقة بالجزء الفني من التحضيرات: سنقوم بتهيئة بنية تحتية أساسية لك لتحميل الصور وتحكمها، ويمكن أن تساعدك في إعداد موقع الويب المحلي الخاص بك، وقوائم المعالم والأدوات.
We can also help out with a trademark agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation (in case your country does not have a Wikimedia Chapter and you want to use any Wikimedia trademarks in the promotion of your local contest). We can also advise on who you can approach for possible partnerships (although mostly in Europe).
In addition, if you feel that a brainstorming meeting in your country with one of us present would be helpful, too, please let us know, and we'll try to help; we have some budget available to accommodate in case your chapter or local Wikimedia group has no funds.
If you have a very specific request, please also have a look at the who's who page to see whom you might directly contact about your needs. You can always leave questions at our Helpdesk.

كم عدد الصور الفائزة في مسابقة ويكي تهوى المعالم المحلية؟

كل مسابقة وطنية تقرر كم صورة يمكنها و تريد مكافأة بجائزة. الأمر كله يعتمد عليكِ على سبيل المثال، في الطبعة 2011 كان هناك 22 صورة فازت في بلجيكا، في حين في نفس العام قرر هيئة المحلفين الرومانية أن تعلن عن 3 فائزين فقط.
However, for convenience, fairness and compatibility reasons, each national competition can submit up to 10 nominations to the international level of the competition; most of the time, these are the local winners and, whenever applicable, some other pictures (often called honorable mentions) as decided by the local jury.

Is it obligatory to register a top-level wikilovesmonuments.TLD domain?

The short answer is: "No."
You can set up your "landing page" on a dedicated website like https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk, or on a page on Wikimedia Commons like Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in Ireland. However, if your local Wikimedia chapter or group can afford to buy the top-level domain of your country, we would strongly suggest doing so; even if you decide to another domain, you would protect the TLD from unpleasant cybersquatting (which has already happened for some countries).
If you cannot register a top-level domain in your country due to other issues — for instance because there is no Wikimedia chapter in the country or the existing chapter or group cannot afford to buy a domain or hosting — please bring the problem to our attention by directly contacting the international team; there is no clearly defined procedure on how to deal with such situations, but we'll definitely try to help.

كيف أضع موقعًا على شبكة الإنترنت لبلدي؟

Most of the national teams use either a Wordpress blog or a page on Wikimedia Commons. We created a Wiki Loves Monuments theme on Wordpress that you can use, and you can reuse a page from another country that you appreciate if you want to stick to Wikimedia Commons. All the details on how to set up the Wordpress website are available in our PDF document. For questions, please refer to the mailing list.
Some countries like to use a dedicated MediaWiki installation, the software that powers this very website. There is a WikiLovesMonuments extension for MediaWiki which bundles some WLM information and adds a sidebar portlet with links to websites of the other participating countries.

هناك أكثر من لغة واحدة تستخدم في بلدي، كيف أتعامل مع ذلك؟

تنظيم "ويكي تهوى المعالم" في بلد يستخدم أكثر من لغة رسمية واحدة، بالطبع، يتطلب بعض الجهد الإضافي، خاصة مع الترجمات. في الواقع، هذا الوضع حدث بالفعل منذ عام 2011 (بلجيكا وسويسرا) ، لذلك هناك بعض الخبرات التي يمكننا مشاركتها.
The biggest problem (or "opportunity") would be to create identical lists in two or more languages and publish them on appropriate Wikipedias; the only requirement is to use the same monument identifiers on all lists (the rest of the information can be localized). Please ask on the Help desk for more information.
The upload process itself, which uses UploadWizard and a Wiki Loves Monuments overlay, is fully translatable into as many languages as it is required. In 2011, every country had UploadCampaigns in its official language (or languages) and an English language for non-native speakers who might have wanted to take part in the competition. Translations are prepared by volunteers, including local organizers, and posted to Wikimedia Commons with help from the administrators; a similar scheme is being used to prepare CentralNotice banners on Meta.

ما هي الجهات الشريكة المقترحة لمشروع ويكي تهوى المعالم؟

يعد اختيار الشركاء لمشروع ويكي تهوى المعالم المحلية أحد أهم الأمور التي يجب على كل بلد أن يقررها بنفسه، ولا يمكننا سوى تقديم المشورة بشأن الجهات التي يمكنك الاتصال بها. فهناك اختلافات كثيرة بين طرق تنظيم قطاعات التراث الثقافي من بلد إلى آخر.
هناك ثلاثة أنواع من الشركاء يمكن أن تتخيل:
  1. شركاء الحكومة - ستحتاج إلى تجميع قائمة من المعالم التذكارية، والحصول على قائمة رسمية من حكومتك مع أكبر قدر ممكن من التفاصيل سيكون من المفيد جدا. التعاون معهم يمكن أن يكون مفيدًا بشكل خاص لكل الطرفين أيضًا، لأن الناس سيكونون أكثر عرضة للعثور على أخطاء في القوائم الأصلية التي يمكن إبلاغها إلى الشريك. وقد تمكنت بعض البلدان من بدء تعاون حيث دعت المشاركين إلى تقديم تعليقات للحكومة حول ما يفتقر إلى قائمة المعالم النموذجية.
  2. شركاء في مجال الدعاية - هم الشركاء الذين يمكنهم مساعدتك في نشر الكلمة، والوصول إلى جمهور وموسائل إعلام محددة؛ على سبيل المثال، منظمات التراث الثقافي غير الحكومية، منظمات المصورين، منظمة المدارس، إلخ. يمكنك أيضاً النظر في الشركاء مع وجود كبير في وسائل الإعلام الاجتماعية، أو المجلات، والصحف، إلخ
  3. الرعات - الذين يمكنهم تقديم جوائز للفائزين وربما تغطية بعض تكاليف الحدث.
A list of possible partners was prepared in 2011; please have a look if those suggestion apply to your country, too.

ماذا عن القمصان؟

ولهذا السبب، وفقًا للاستراتيجية وفقًى الميزانية، فالفريق الدولي لا ينتج عادةً قميصات "ويكي تهوى المعالم". سيكون من الناحية الفعالة بكثير من حيث التكلفة أن تقوم فرق محلية بتصنيع القمصان لأغراضها الخاصة بدلاً من شحنها في جميع أنحاء العالم، ناهيك عن اختلافات الحجم بين البلدان، وكمية العمل اللازمة لمراقبة الشحن.
To help you with the design and production of T-shirts, there are two possible logos, one for monochrome print, and one for three-colour print. Use the one you prefer and enjoy!

كيف يمكنني جمع المال لتنظيم ميزانيتنا؟

We suggest to first try to cover your expenses with the help of sponsors. In many countries it is possible to find sponsors to pay for the things or services you would otherwise have to pay for yourselves (prizes, goodies, promotional materials, etc.). If there is a Wikimedia chapter in your country, it is also feasible that they could cover some part of the expenses.
When finding sponsors for your contest or getting support from a local Wikimedia chapter is not possible, there still remains a third way. The Wikimedia Foundation provides grants, especially for smaller projects. Please take a look at Wikimedia Foundation grants processes - it looks like the Rapid Grants are the most suitable.

أين يمكنني العثور على إحصاءات ذات صلة، استبيانات، إلخ؟

في السنوات الماضية، تم جمع بعض الإحصاءات، وتم إجراء استطلاعات. هذا هو نظرة عامة (ربما ليست كاملة) عن هذه:

أسئلة حول قواعد المسابقة

ما هي القواعد الأساسية؟

مجموعة القواعد الأساسية أو "التوصيات" لإجراء المسابقة هي:
  1. يجب أن تكون جميع الصور المشاركة في المسابقة مصوّرة بنفسك وتحمّلت بنفسك.
  2. يمكن تحميلها في سبتمبر وأكتوبر (سيتم تقييم الحالات الاستثنائية بشكل فردي) ، إلى ويكيميديا كومونز مع ما يزيد عن 31 يومًا للمنافسة الخاصة بك.
  3. الترخيص الافتراضي هو Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0) ؛
  4. يجب أن تكون جميع الصور المؤهلة لها مرجع تعريف، قدمها المشاركون أثناء تحميلها.
  5. يجب أن يكون المشاركون مسموحاً بإرسال رسائلهم الإلكترونية إلى ويكيميديا كومونز (أو المنصة التي قاموا بتحميل صورهم إليها) ليكونوا مؤهلون للحصول على الجوائز.
  6. كل مسابقة وطنية قادرة على ترشيح 10 صور للمرحلة الدولية للمسابقة.

ما هي المتطلبات التقنية للصور؟

There haven't been any general technical requirements for the pictures. All self-taken and self-uploaded photos that fulfill the other basic rules (see above) and fit in the Wikimedia Commons scope were accepted into the contest, as the main goal of Wiki Loves Monuments has been to collect as many pictures usable for Wikipedia as possible. Local organisers and local juries are able to define their precise requirements independently, and choose their winners accordingly.
Concerns have been voiced by some members of the Wikimedia Commons community that some pictures uploaded for Wiki Loves Monuments were of a bad quality. It would be against the openness of the competition to set any technical requirements for the photos aside from the judging. However, some ideas were documented about how to help the participants improve the quality of their pictures.

How should a local jury be formed?

Wiki Loves Monuments is not about any photos: it's about photos of monuments; about beautiful photos of monuments; and about beautiful photos of monuments that suit the encyclopaedic purpose of Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects). Hence, it was agreed that a jury should take into consideration all those values when taking its decision on the winners, both locally and internationally.
In order to balance those three values—and also to involve external sponsors and partners—most of last years' juries consisted of professional photographers, cultural heritage specialists and Wikimedians, who took their decisions in a joint manner. In some countries there was also a vote open for the public, in which Wikimedians chose their favourites, but this should be considered only an addition to the regular decision of a jury.

Technical questions

What software will be used to upload pictures for Wiki Loves Monuments?

Following last years' experiences, we will be using the UploadWizard simplified by a special Wiki Loves Monuments overlay (an UploadCampaign). Each country has its own upload campaign which adds the right templates to the uploaded files. Sometimes this is even further simplified, by providing direct upload links for specific monuments through monument lists and tools such as Monumental. You can already test the upload campaign, see this page.
Pictures can be uploaded using other tools (e.g. Commonist, Up!), but as this requires further knowledge of wiki markup and Wikimedia Commons itself, in the previous years those methods were used only by more experienced editors.
Provided that the file is eligible, including being uploaded in the appropriate period, the uploader can manually add the relevant templates to the file page of an existing upload to enter the competion. With the permission of the uploader, anybody else can do so also. This is only recommended for experienced editors.

What about using CentralNotice banners?

Just like in previous editions, we will be using CentralNotice banners to call visitors to participate in the contest. The banners will be based on geography and the language of the user, and will be visible in all Wikimedia projects throughout the competition month(s). They will direct the user to the website of their country's contest to provide all information needed to participate.
See Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2025/CentralNotice for detailed information and translations of the text used in the banners. Please add the url of the landing page of each participating country to the table.

How should I create a monument list?

To participate in the contest it is recommended to have lists of monuments on Wikipedia, so that participants know which objects can be photographed. These monument lists contain for each monument a unique identifier to easily identify a specific monument. In these lists you can add direct links to the special upload wizard for your country which pre-fills the upload campaign to make it easier to participate. See for more information about creating lists of monuments on this page. When the monument lists are created they can be added to the monument database to enable handy tools (which use these lists).

And what about lists from monuments in Wikidata?

Several countries have been moving their lists from Wikipedia into Wikimedia's database Wikidata, which in turn allows automated lists of monuments to be created on your local Wikipedia. Manual and automated lists are both okay for Wiki Loves Monuments.
More information on Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments will hopefully be added soon. A data model for the structured data on monuments is already available at Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments/Structured data.

Where can I find information about monuments database?

Documentation for the monuments database is available at Commons:Monuments database.

What software will the jury use to select pictures?

While each country can decide what tool or method will it use to select the winning pictures, a software tool has been developed aiming to cover the needs of many possible scenarios, based on the experience from past years. Commons:Montage is a tool which, since 2016, is used by several Wiki Loves competitions. Explanations of the tool are on the project page, to request a campaign for your national competition specifically, please visit the talk page.

A list of all sorts of other tools for Wiki Loves Monuments can be found here.

If you have any questions regarding the CentralNotice, upload campaigns or related templates, and more, used for Wiki Loves Monuments, please ask them on the talk page. The talk page is watched by the international team.


You can also contact us at IRC in the channel #wikilovesmonuments at freenode. Access webchat or go there in your IRC client and ask for Romaine.


Commons basic guidelines

Since all photographs for Wiki Loves Monuments need to be uploaded on Commons by the original photographer, make sure you are familiar with the basic rules on Commons. These rules apply to WLM uploads the same as for all pictures uploaded for the Wikimedia projects.
Every file uploaded to Commons:
  • Must be a media file.
  • Must be of an allowable free file format.
  • Must be freely licensed or public domain.
  • Must be realistically useful for an educational purpose.
  • Must not contain only excluded educational content.

What you need to know about Freedom of Panorama

In almost all countries, art, architecture, and other works are protected by copyright for a specified period. That means any photograph taken of such a work during the copyright period is a derivative work, provided (under US law) that the photograph displays the quantum of originality required for copyright protection of a derivative work. A derivative work usually requires a license from the creator of the original work. However, in about half of all countries there is an exception in copyright law which eliminates the need for a license. We call this exception Freedom of Panorama (FOP).
The works to which the FOP exception applies vary widely from country to country. The exception generally applies only to works on permanent public display. In some countries, this is only in outdoor public places; in others it extends to indoor places where admission is charged. It may cover only architecture, only architecture and sculpture, or all copyrightable works including literary works.
If you are unsure about the situation of FOP in the country where you want to organize WLM, please visit the pages about Freedom of Panorama on Wikimedia Commons where you can find details about the situation by country.

Additional national laws

There may be additional national laws in your country about what a participant can and cannot photograph. For instance, Italy has restrictions for cultural heritage assets about the distribution of images of the heritage from old civilisations and antiques. The law says it’s okay to photograph the sites for personal use, but the photographs cannot be published under a license that allows for commercial use, hence pictures of the Italian heritage sites cannot be entered in WLM.
Other topics that have to be kept in mind are personality rights, please see photographs of identifiable people for more, and also the regulations on drone (or other unmanned flying craft) photography in different countries. Commons tries to keep track of all these kinds of rules in the section for Copyright rules by territory.

Use cases when FOP is limited

With all that said, it’s important to realize that countries where FOP is limited (or even non-existing) have been able to organize WLM in the past. In fact, some of these countries have been consistently participating in WLM since the 2011 edition! Most of them do so on the basis of the expiration of copyright. Because in every country, even one without an FOP exception, once a work goes out of copyright it may be freely photographed. The exception does not eliminate the need for a license from the photographer, but in that case the photographer can choose a free license and join Wiki Loves Monuments.
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