Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Northern Pakistan - About

The first Wiki Loves Earth competition was held in 2013 in Ukraine. In 2014, the competition spread to other countries, with a total of 15 participating countries including India. The 2015 edition of Wiki Loves Earth has seen more than 8,500 contestants participating from 26 countries, with over 100,000 photo submissions. Pakistan made its debut in 2015 edition of Wiki Loves Earth and won first grand prize.
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The theme of the Wikipedia Loves Northern Pakistan photo competition is Pakistan’s natural heritage and scenic landscape. Photos of scenic natural landscape, natural heritage sites, national parks, forests, and gardens are eligible for the competition.

This photography competition is a educational event aim to make knowledge freely available to everyone in the world. The competition seeks to encourage the usage of Creative Commons licences by releasing all competition photographs under them, so that others from around the world may freely use them.

The photographs uploaded during the competition are shared with the world under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA free licence which forces everyone re-using the photograph to credit the original author. The winners (and many non-winners) will see their photos used in Wikipedia articles, with a potential audience in the hundreds of thousands.

View the entire collection of winning images from the Wiki Loves Earth 2015

To learn more about Wiki Loves Earth 2016, please refer to Wikimedia Foundation blog post.


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