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Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition to promote historic sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons). Everybody can participate. By submitting your photos to the competition, you share and help preserve the cultural heritage of Sweden for all fellow Swedes and the rest of the world, to enjoy through the internet.

In September, you may upload as many pictures as you want of cultural sites that you have visited. Pictures don't have to be taken in September, but must be uploaded during that month to be considered. Provide your photo with   template. At the end of the month, the contest jury will begin evaluating the photographs and will choose the best 10 pictures of the natural sites in Sweden, and ultimately in the world.

 Why to participate?
Wiki Loves Monuments is the largest photography competition in the world, with great prizes for the winners. What's more important – however – is that you, through taking part, help documenting and preserving the world's cultural heritage. The competition in Sweden is part of the international annual photographic competition Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM).

What's more – participating is fun! Photographing and sharing images of the cultural heritage is a great way of exploring the local cultural heritage, and learn more about it. It's a challenge to improve your own photography skills, and you stand a chance to win both national and international prizes. The national jury selects 10 images that will represent Sweden in the international finale. More information about the international competition is available on www.wikilovesmonuments.org.

You can also upload images that you may have taken already during one of your travels to the national competition of that country. Check if your travel destination participates in Wiki Loves Monuments this year.

 Competition rules
We try to keep the competition clean and simple to participate. There are only a few rules for photos to participate in the contest in Sweden. Let's quickly go through them. All entries must be your own work; do not manipulate original images and make sure that there is no visible watermarks. All photos must be uploaded within September 2020, to be eligible All photos must be under a free license Participants must have an active email account. Lists of eligible sites are published below. Captions and description are required Make sure that you are not uploading duplicate images All photos must have at least 2Mpx.

Next to that, there are a few practical rules and advice: Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikimedia Commons Name your photos well Use our Upload Button at the top OR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wle-se Click here] to upload images Do not forget to add categories to your picture – it will be helpful to everyone looking for it! Share your upload success on social media with our hashtags: #WLMSverige #WLM2020. And wait patiently for the results! All the best!

Eligible objects
The competition name refers to monuments, but in the Swedish context this is to be interpreted as anything from four types of heritage sites: protected buildings, ancient remains, protected ships and working life museums. Each of these sites are given unique identification numbers by official authorities and any official site is eligible. The lists below may not be fully up to date.


 * url1>:w:sv:Kategori:Listor över byggnadsminnen i Sverige per region|Category with lists of protected buildings
 * url2>:w:sv:Kategori:Listor över fornminnen i Sverige per kommun|Category with lists of ancient remains
 * url3>:w:sv:Lista över kulturmärkta fartyg i Sverige|List of protected ships
 * url4>:w:sv:Kategori:Listor över arbetslivsmuseer i Sverige per region|Category with lists of working life museums

Submit the identification number in the competition upload tool for automatic labelling. When uploading in other ways, use one of the templates below.

Template Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 is automatically added to the description when using the tool. If you upload in other ways, make sure to add this yourself.
 * BBR using Anläggnings-ID from url5>:w:sv:Kategori:Listor över byggnadsminnen i Sverige per region</>|Category with lists of protected buildings
 * <tvar|rem_templ>Fornminne</> using <tvar|rem_id>ID-nr</> from url6>:w:sv:Kategori:Listor över fornminnen i Sverige per kommun</>|Category with lists of ancient remains
 * <tvar|ship_templ>K-Fartyg</> using <tvar|ship_id>Signal</> from url7>:w:sv:Lista över kulturmärkta fartyg i Sverige</>|List of protected ships
 * <tvar|work_templ>Arbetslivsmuseum</> using <tvar|work_id>ID-nr</> from url8>:w:sv:Kategori:Listor över arbetslivsmuseer i Sverige per region</>|Category with lists of working life museums

<font color="#046eb1"> Judging 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. But feel free to submit images, and let the jury be concerned if they are good enough.

Help
Use [<tvar|petscan>https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=commons&project=wikimedia&categories=Images%20from%20Wiki%20Loves%20Earth%202020%20in%20Sweden%0D%0A&combination=union&negcats=Protected%20areas%20of%20Sweden%20with%20known%20IDs%0D%0AImages%20from%20Wiki%20Loves%20Earth%20in%20Sweden%20with%20error&ns%5B6%5D=1&interface_language=en&&doit=</> this search] to find images without <tvar|template>Wiki Loves Earth Sweden</> and add the template with the correct ID.