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Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Paradise Chronicle!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 22:37, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 Has Launched – Join Us!

Hello Paradise Chronicle,

Greetings from the Wiki Loves Folklore International Team! We are excited to announce Wiki Loves Folklore 2025, an international contest on Wikimedia Commons dedicated to capturing the beauty of folklore and intangible cultural heritage from around the world. Whether it’s vibrant folk festivals, traditional dances, soulful music, time-honoured culinary practices, unique attire, oral storytelling, or other cultural treasures, this is your chance to document and share the living heritage that unites us all.

How Can I Contribute?

It’s simple! Grab your camera, smartphone, or recording device, and start capturing photos, videos, or audio that tell the story of your local folklore. Once you’ve collected your media, head over to the Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 page and click on the Upload Now icon to submit your entry. For complete rules and guidelines, please visit our project page on Wikimedia Commons.

Timeline

• Submission Period: February 1, 2025, 00:01 (UTC) – March 31, 2025, 23:59 (UTC)
• Results Declaration: Around July 15, 2025

Exciting 2025 Prizes

International Prizes

Photo Category

• 1st Prize: 500 USD
• 2nd Prize: 400 USD
• 3rd Prize: 300 USD
• 4th Prize: 200 USD
• 5th Prize: 100 USD
• Top 10 Noteworthy Contribution Prizes: 50 USD each

Video Category

• 1st Video Prize (Best Oral Storytelling): 150 USD
• 2nd Video Prize (Best Video Storytelling): 100 USD
• 3rd Video Prize (Sustainable Folklore Video): 100 USD

Audio Category

• 1st Audio Prize (Overall Best): 150 USD
• 2nd Audio Prize (Best Folklore Podcast Series): 150 USD

Community Prizes

Top Uploader Category

• 1st Top Uploader Prize: 250 USD
• 2nd Top Uploader Prize: 150 USD
• 3rd Top Uploader Prize: 100 USD

Additionally:

• Volunteer Excellence Awards: Two awards (gift voucher and certificate) recognizing volunteers who have gone above and beyond in organizing events, coordinating participants, or otherwise contributing to the competition’s success.
• Wiki Loves Folklore Postcards: To the top 100 uploaders.
• Certificates and Postcards: For Local Organizers.

Disclaimer: All prizes will be distributed exclusively in the form of major brand gift cards or vouchers, equivalent to the local currency amount.

Regional Prizes

Regional prizes will be awarded to the top three jury-selected media entries from the following regions:

• MENA: Middle East & North Africa
• SSA: Sub-Saharan Africa
• SA: South Asia
• ESEAP: East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific
• LAC: Latin America & Caribbean
• NA: North America
• NWE: Northern & Western Europe
• CEECA: Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Awards per Region:

• Regional Champion Award: 150 USD
• Regional Runner-Up Award: 100 USD
• Regional Contributor Award: 50 USD

What We Won’t Accept

To maintain the integrity of the competition, please note that we will not accept media that are:

• Out of the Commons Project scope
• Lacking EXIF information
• Excessively processed or digitally altered
• Pornographic or explicit
• Artwork submissions that pose copyright issues

We invite you to celebrate and preserve our rich and diverse folklore traditions. Your contribution will help create a lasting record of our cultural heritage for generations to come.

For more details on the contest rules, prizes, and submission process, please visit our project page on Wikimedia Commons. If you have any questions, email us or join our Telegram group.

Let’s come together and keep our traditions alive – #WeTogether!

Warm regards,
On behalf of the Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

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Tech News: 2025-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.

Updates for editors

• The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [1]
• As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
• Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [2]
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [4]
• The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [5]
• As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions. [6]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
• The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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