Wiki Loves Earth winners announced for 2022
? and ? are featured among x? photographs that have been crowned winners of the 2022 Wiki Loves Earth photo competition in Australia, and will go on to compete in the international round.
The competition saw ? photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons from across Australia from ? users, ? of which had never uploaded a photo before.
The annual competition aims to highlight flora and fauna from protected areas, including national parks, conservation reserves and privately held land.
Open from x? May and x? June 2022, the competition helps to build a collection of new photos that can be used to illustrate articles on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This year's entries also included images of at least five species for which there had previously been no photograph.
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The Australian competition was organised by volunteer Margaret Donald, who began editing in 2017 when she first uploaded a plant image to Wikimedia Commons.
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Volunteers also undertook months of tireless work adding coordinates, categories, metadata and ‘depict statements’ for each image, which all help describe an image and make it discoverable.
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The ? winning images were awarded a $100 prize. These photos will now compete internationally against other winners from around the world.
Wikimedia Australia thanks Margaret and the judges for their tireless work and congratulates all contributors to the competition. We hope they are inspired to continue to upload their photos to Wikimedia Commons for years to come.