Hello Everyone!

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, folk religion, mythology and many more.

In the last two years, we have been able to document around 27000 media from over 125+ countries. In 2019, we had a successful international edition that ran from 1-28 Feb 2019 where we got 7121 images from 1700+ participants from over 120 countries in the theme pertaining to the festivals and ceremonies from different parts of the world. In 2020, the competition elicited 19,052 image submissions, 144 videos, and 13 audio files, the campaign documented folk culture of over 125 countries around the globe. Over 1496 photographers took part and around 20 affiliates collaborated in the project.

How to contribute?

Starting 1 February to 28 February, interested Wikipedians, Wikimedians, folks, Glam advocates and Cultural enthusiasts can help bridge the knowledge gap on documentation on the theme folklore. If you are interested in participating in the photography campaign, start photographing and collecting media of your local culture and get ready for the photo campaign happening on Commons. For more information check our project page.

Who can Participate?

This is open to all open evangelists with interest to the aforementioned. Contact me for any questions.

Best regards,

Joy Agyepong and Hardarshan Benipal

Wiki Loves Folklore 

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2021

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki_Loves_Folklore_Commons_2021