A month-long international photographic competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, will kick off in South Africa on the September 1.
It will run throughout the coming month, focusing on the nation’s heritage.
For the past two years, the Guinness Book of Records has accepted the Wiki Loves Monuments competition as the largest photographic competition in the world.
Members of the public, heritage enthusiasts, and photography fanatics are encouraged to celebrate South Africa’s living heritage by taking photographs of heritage sites and upload them either via mobile or their computers to the competition website.
There are over 3 000 heritage sites across South Africa that form part of the South African Heritage Resource Agency’s (SAHRA) official Grade I and II list.
The list includes buildings, sites of struggle and memory, graves, monuments, archaeological sites, etc.
A panel of South African photographers will judge submissions, and the winners will receive prizes in the form of vouchers towards photographic equipment (first prize is for R7 500).
In addition, the best photographs from the national competition will be submitted for the international Wiki Loves Monuments prize.
To be eligible for entry, competitors must register on Wikimedia Commons via this website, link the photo to its SAHRA number, and release the photographs under the Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-SA) for usage on Wikipedia and its aligned sites. Entrants are also able to nominate a site that is not yet on the list by sending a photo and motivation to nominate@wikilovesmonuments.co.za.
The international Wiki Loves Monuments project is organised by the Wikimedia community that created Wikipedia.
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