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#WPWP runs every July 1st to August 31st. Join the Campaign!

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2020 in the Philippines (WPWP 2020 PH) is local campaign of Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP), an annual campaign where Wikipedians across Wikipedia language projects and communities add photos to Wikipedia articles lacking images, to support the international organizers and help promote in the Philippines the use of digital media files, on the eight (8) Philippine-language edition of Wikipedia article pages. Photos help to grasp the reader's attention better than a wall of text, illustrate content, and make the article more instructive and engaging for readers.

Thousands of images have been donated and contributed to Wikipedia Commons via various advocacy programs, photowalks, and contests including international photography contests such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc. Yet relatively few of these photos have been used on Wikipedia articles. Today, the Wikimedia Commons hosts millions of photo images but only a tiny portion of these have been used on Wikipedia article pages. This is a huge gap that this project aims at bridging.

How to participate[edit]

1 Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikipedia (You can create account on any language Wikipedia including your own language). The list of all language Wikipedia can be found here.

2 Find an article that needs a photo. There are many ways to do this. Here are some tips.

3 Select the appropriate image on Commons. Click here to search for the image using the correct title or category. There are several ways to do this. See this simple media reuse guide. Here are additional tips.

4 On the article page, click Edit and insert the image selected in Step 3, including a brief caption in the WP's language. Check the display position in "Preview" and make any necessary changes. Then click on "Publish changes".

5 Include the hashtag #WPWP in the edit summary of all articles improved with images.

6 You may also participate by creating new articles for quality photos.

Philippine campaign rules[edit]


Participants must be a registered user on any Wikimedia project.Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikipedia (You can create account on any language Wikipedia including your own language). The list of all language Wikipedia can be found here.

Choose one (1) Philippine language Wikipedia edition where you wish to mainly take part of. Although you can add images to any editions, a participant can only win in one (1) category. The eight Philippine language-edition of Wikipedia can be found here.

Images must be used between 1st July to 31st August, 2020.

The image must be published under a free use license or as public domain. The possible licenses are CC-BY-SA 4.0, CC-BY 4.0, CC0 1.0.

There is no limit to the number of files one can use. The user with most number of articles improved by adding images on articles in his/her chosen Philippine-language edition of Wikipedia category shall win the PhP 3,000 worth of prize.

The image caption, description or additional information in sentences must be clear and be suitable for the article. It is probihibited to add a gallery of images without a relevant caption, and using a machine translation service such as Google Translate for translating captions, descriptions or additional information in sentences.

International prize range from USD 100 to USD 500 for the user(s) with the most number of unique Wikipedia articles improved with photos, audio and video, and the new user(s) with the most number of unique Wikipedia articles improved with photos.

Participants must include the hashtag #WPWP in the Edit summary of all articles improved with images. For example: "+image #WPWP"

Results announcement will be on 30th September, 2020.

International prize categories[edit]

Winning prizes for the user(s) with the most number of unique Wikipedia articles improved with photos

  1. 1st prize US$500
  2. 2nd prize US$400
  3. 3rd prize US$300

Winning prizes for the user(s) with the most number of unique Wikipedia articles improved with audio

  • US$200

Winning prizes for the user(s) with the most number of unique Wikipedia articles improved with video

  • US$200

Winning prizes for the new user(s) with the most number of unique Wikipedia articles improved with photos

  • US$200

Winning prizes for user with the most Wiki Loves Africa image usage on Igbo, Swahili, Yoruba, Luganda, Hausa, Shona, Amharic, Lingala and Afrikaans Wikipedias. More info.

  • US$100