Activities/Britain Loves Wikipedia/Rules

Britain Wikipedia Photography contest from Wikimedia UK and museums across the country

Overview Participating museums Museum participation Timeline

Rules Prizes Targets Planning

Cultural partnerships

Content partnerships — Digital image restorations — Joint events

First take a picture of the object

Then take a picture with an index card in front of the object

Items to photograph

• You should only photograph objects that are not in copyright
• If photographing images, they should be older than 1923
• You must take both a photograph of the object, and a second photograph of an index card, which must have the object in the background, and must list:
  • Your team name
  • The item title
  • The item catalogue number

Uploading photographs

• You must upload your photographs before the 14th March 2010. They should have been taken between the 31st January and 28th February
• You must upload your photograph via the provided webpage
• You must release your photograph under a free license
• You must upload both an image of the object, and one of an index card for that object
• You should also select your team name from the pull-down menu, and provide a typed version of the title and catalogue number, as well as the desired attribution