Commons:Photo challenge
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Photo Challenge
 The Photo Challenge inspires photographers to take great pictures and upload them to Commons. Monthly thematic competitions encourage participants to try new subjects, new photographic or processing techniques, and to develop skills while improving the Commons repository of free images. Photographs entered into a competition must be new to Commons and taken by a Commons user. |
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Formal things
- Challenges
Challenges are based on a theme and run for a month. The theme may be a concrete subject, an abstract concept, a photographic technique or artistic style.
- Participation
Everybody can participate in challenges open for submission. You simply
- Choose one or all of the current challenges
- Read the challenge description(s), which may vary in their rules (e.g., some place restrictions on when the photos are taken)
- Take picture(s) for the challenge(s) during the challenge period (or, if allowed, select from your own existing pictures that are not yet on Commons)
- Upload your picture(s) during the challenge period
- Submit your candidates at the top of the current challenge gallery during the challenge period. To do that you click the [Edit] button of the Entries section of your chosen challenge and insert the File name above the last entry (or above File:-Insert image here-.svg for the first entry).
- Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:
Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron
- For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.
- Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:
- Do not sign your submission(s)
- If you want, you can have a look at previous challenges and Vote
Challenges are open to any Commons user. Submissions must be your own work, not previously uploaded to Commons prior to the challenge date and should illustrate the challenge theme in the opinion of the photographer. Please read the challenge descriptions, as there may be additional rules or explanations for specific challenges. There is no limit on the number of submissions per user (unless specially so restricted in the challenge), but please choose from among your best and most varied images.
To submit pictures, you edit the gallery of the contest and add your candidate(s) to the top of the list.
New themes can be proposed and discussed here.
- Assessment
After the challenge has closed to new submissions, the pictures will be assessed by popularity voting in the subsequent month. You are allowed to vote for images submitted by others if your Commons account is at least ten days old and has more than 50 edits or if you participated in one of the challenges. Challenges open for voting can be found here.
- Winning
The best three pictures will be awarded first, second and third place. They will be displayed on the Photo challenge page and may use the template {{Photo challenge winner}} on the file description page.
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Challenges open for submission
2024 – July – Manhole
The new challenge features Manhole covers.
Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.
The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout July UTC.
Checklist for this theme:
- Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
- Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. July 2024 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
- Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
- Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.
Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:
Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron
For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.
- Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.
There are 27 days 2 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)
Examples
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Entries
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Manhole cover in Hakodate, Japan, depicting Goryokaku ("5-point fort") and the Old Public Hall -
Manhole cover in Hakodate, Japan, depicting squid, the city mascot -
Belgrade, Serbia. Sewerage. 100 years with hometown -
Zanzibar manhole cover with coat of arms -
Zanzibar manhole cover with Stone Town picture -
Zanzibar manhole cover with elefants -
Schachtdeckel in Bremen IMG 6354WI -
Schachtdeckel in Hannover 2012 IMG 9737WI -
Schachtdeckel in Köln 2009 795WI -
Schachtdeckel in Berlin 1167ОВ -
Taiwan Power Company's manhole cover -
2024 – July – Bread
The new challenge features Bread.
Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.
The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout July UTC.
Checklist for this theme:
- Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
- Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. July 2024 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
- Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
- Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.
Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:
Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron
For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.
- Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.
There are 27 days 2 hours left before this challenge ends. (refresh)
Examples
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Entries
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Condensed milk butter toast with Denmark toothpick flag -
Two slices of black bread on a straw tray -
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Buttered pineapple bun and butter and condense milk on toast. -
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Challenges open for voting
Voting is open to all registered contributors who have held accounts for at least 10 days and made 50 edits, and also to new Commons contributors who have entered the challenge with a picture. Users cannot vote for their own picture. Voters may select up to three photographs in each theme to award points and can give praise to other photos without awarding points. Voting will be open for one month. The votes not complying with those requirements will be removed or converted to praises. In some cases users might be asked to correct their votes after voting ends.
June 2024
Previous challenges
May 2024
April 2024
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Title | Колонны здания администрации и думы Новгородской области 2H1A4397WI |
Columns on the façade of the Philharmonie in Luxembourg |
Fassade Mark- Twain- Grundschule 02 |
| Author | Kora27 | Ermell | ThoBel-0043 |
| Score | 25 | 14 | 11 |
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Title | Visitors at the 2024 Easter fire in Rottorf | Campfire at lake Yngen, Filipstad Municipality, Värmland, Sweden |
Osterfeuer im oberen Murtal |
| Author | F. Riedelio | Mozzihh | Bitisajn |
| Score | 21 | 14 | 10 |
March 2024
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Title | Sieben graue Köpfe | Reflections - Shyok River | Nina-Replica |
| Author | Mensch01 | Prof Ranga Sai | Wingerham52 |
| Score | 20 | 18 | 11 |
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Title | Palazzo di Guistizia with Courte di Cassazione at river Tiber, Rome, Italy |
North facade of Palais de justice de Paris. | Supreme Court of Finland at night |
| Author | Mozzihh | FreCha | GPSLeo |
| Score | 19 | 15 | 12 |
February 2024
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Title | Dragon Dance, Oklahoma City, OK, Lunar New Year, 2024 (Year of the Dragon) |
Sec. 1, Wuchang St., Taipei City, with LED lights decorations above on 2024 Chinese New Year |
Eu Tong Sen Street in Chinatown, Singapore, with CNY decorations above |
| Author | OKJaguar | Junyu-K | S5A-0043 |
| Score | 11 | 9 | 9 |
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Title | Boat knot | Figure-eight loop in mountaineering |
Root knot of a beech tree |
| Author | Teseo | Wagner Cxxx | Foeniz |
| Score | 11 | 9 | 8 |
January 2024
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Title | Garfield Grain Elevator and Silos Garfield Washington USA |
Feed silos in Hirschbrunn near Burgebrach |
Silos of the Hannoversche Portland -Cementfabrik (abandoned in 1986) |
| Author | DaveGinOly | Ermell | Hgrobe |
| Score | 19 | 13 | 8 |
| Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Title | Narrentag 2024 - Elzacher Schuttig |
Kirchseoner Perchtenlauf - old winter parade tradition in Bavaria. Mask of type "Klaubauf" |
Taken in Dublin, march 2014 |
| Author | Rainer Halama | Würmchen-vom-Mölchlein | Oncewerecolours |
| Score | 13 | 13 | 10 |