CEE/Newsletter/Newsroom/Polish Heritage in Ukraine: Wikimedia Polska and Wikimedia Ukraine invite to contribute
- By: antanana, a member of Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine organising team
Due to a long shared – and at times complicated – history, there are many Polish monuments on the territory of Ukraine; and not all of them are registered and protected, let alone properly cared for by the state authorities or local communities. The main purpose of a separate special category is to draw attention to these monuments and their condition, and to document them for Wikipedia. Over the years of conducting Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine the organising team held special categories dedicated to monuments of Greek, Armenian, German and Jewish cultural heritage in Ukraine – in an attempt to cover a very multicultural landscape of Ukraine in the past.
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Saint Francis Borgia church. Rozluch, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. Photo: © Henryk Bielamowicz, CC BY-SA 4.0 -
Ruins of Czerwonogród Castle. Nyrkiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. Photo: © Rbrechko, CC BY-SA 4.0 -
Potocki Chapel. Pechera, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. Photo: © Posterrr, CC BY-SA 4.0
Anton Protsiuk, programs coordinator of Wikimedia Ukraine, noted: “We are very grateful for Wikimedia Polska partnering with us in this project. The lists for the special category are created by the volunteer organising committee based on the available information about monuments, and there might be some grey areas with thinking whether to include this or that monument. So, it is important to have the final decision to be residing outside of the organisers. It is also good to have a jury formed by Wikimedia Polska, and, of course, getting some branded (or sweet) souvenirs from Poland would be a welcome gift for our participants.
We hope that we can motivate new and existing participants to upload more materials, especially as quite a lot of the objects in the special category lists are not officially protected by the state, so they were not featured during the usual Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine contest”.
This list can be viewed at the link: pl.wlm.photo.
The list of the special category currently has already more than a few hundred objects, and we are working on it, and it will be expanded during the competition as well. The organising committee welcomes suggestions and additional information about Polish cultural heritage objects not currently listed. You can send this information to the e-mail address of the committee at wlm
wikimedia.org.ua.
The expert jury will determine and award:
- authors of the three best photos of Polish monuments in Ukraine;
- the author of the best video depicting Polish cultural heritage.
Besides, the most active participants will receive branded souvenirs.
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Organisational team of the special category Polish heritage in Ukraine. Photo: © Martin Urbanec, CC0 -
Wikimedia Polska team. Photo: © Jacek Durski, CC BY-SA 4.0 -
Ukrainians at Wikimania 2024. Photo: © Ferdinando Traversa, CC0 -
Wikimedia Polska'a visual. © Aleksandra Cyron, Wikimedia Polska, CC BY-SA 4.0
- How to participate
- Go to the special category page on Wikipedia (the page is also available in English and Polish, though the lists themselves are in Ukrainian only).
- Create or log in to your Wikipedia account (you must enter a valid e-mail when registering).
- Find a monument in the lists of the region. Each monument has its own identifier (ID).
- If you have information about an object that is not on the lists, please send that information to wlm
wikimedia.org.ua, indicating the name of the settlement where the object is located, other data (coordinates, links to publications, etc.). - From October 1 to 31, upload a photo of the monument directly from the lists: find the line with the desired object in the lists, and in the last column click on the link "[Upload photo] (Завантажити фото)" or "Upload another photo" (Завантажити ще фото).
Please note: due to the state of war in Ukraine, only photos taken no later than June 30, 2024 can participate in the contest. The only exception is the interiors of monuments – their pictures can be submitted even if the pictures were taken during the competition in October.
All photos depicting objects from the lists of the special category will automatically participate in it, so there is no need to additionally indicate this when submitting a photo to the competition. Please note that photos of objects that have an official protection status will also take part in the main categories of the competition. But objects without official protection status can be awarded only within this special category.