Конкурсы/Конкурс научных фотографий 2022/en

«Visualize Science for Wikipedia» Scientific illustration! Help illustrating science-related Wikipedia articles with quality modern photography and media-files. Timeframe: 2st of April - 31st of May 2022 24 awards: Three winners in each of the eight nominations will receive monetary prizes amounting to 10 000 rubles. Take part and upload illustrations! автор: Ted.ns автор: Katcerina автор: Irina Moroz micro автор: FMNLab автор:Retro Lenses Help reaching out to potential participants:  Email  Twitter

Organizers: «Wikimedia RU» Non-Profit Partnership & «Nauka» TV channel.

Rules

Contest works are accepted from the 2st of April through the 31st of May 2022. For uploading, one must have a registered Wikimedia Commons account showing a valid email address, for us to be able to contact the contest participant in case of his or her victory!	The contest is conducted in eight nominations: «People in Science», «Microscopy images», «Non-photographic media», «Image sets», «Nature», «Cosmos», «Conquering the Arctic» and «Science around us». Three winners will be selected in each of these, thus the jury will identify tеwenty-four winning illustrations. Each of these winners will receive monetary prize of 10 000 rubles.	All works must be uploaded under the free license. Possible license types are CC-BY-SA 4.0, CC-BY 4.0, CC0 1.0, and others.
Images, uploaded in the framework of the contest, must be taken or created by the uploading author. In case of multiple authors, names of all co-authors must be shown. If uploading is done on behalf of the organization, it must be done by an authorized representative thereof.	All images must contain good and detailed description in Russian or in English, and very desirable in both. This is important, as it's exactly the description that very much makes the image scientific!	Try to upload images in maximum resolution available, except for cases of technological limitation thereof. Images should not contain any watermarks or logos.

What to upload — 8 nominations!

Upload photoes

People in Science. Scientists in their natural habitat. Examples:

• 
  автор: FMNLab
• 
  автор: Peeterpaaver
• 
  автор: Alexey Faguet
• 
  автор: Sergei Gnuskov, NUST MISIS
• 
  автор:Alessiocoser

Upload photoes

Microscopy images. All images obtained using microscopes. Examples:

• 
  автор: Anatoly Mikhaltsov
• 
  Кристаллы в высохшей капле Кока-колы, автор: Alexander Klepnev
• 
  автор: TiberiusRufus
• 
  автор: Sutirtha.ray
• 
  автор: Kristjan Leben
• 
  автор: Mariaurszula

Upload media-files

Non-photographic media. Audio and video files, computer-generated imagery, scientific visualization: infographics etc. Examples:

• Красные муравьи, автор: Basile Morin
• Нейтрофил крови человека фагоцитирует бактерию, автор: Andrei Savitsky
• 
  Черная дыра, автор: Schnittm
• Аттрактор Лоренца в роли черной дыры, автор: German A. Chernykh & Irina A, by Chernykh

Upload photoes

Image sets. 2–10 images that are thematically linked and submitted as a set. Can be placed in one file or separately. Examples:

• 
  Лунное затмение января 2019 года от начала до конца, автор: AstroAnthony
• 
  автор: AlexeySolodovnikov
• 
  автор: AlexeySolodovnikov
• 
  автор: AlexeySolodovnikov

Upload photoes

Nature. Scientific photoes about any natural phenomena. Examples:

• 
  автор: Ted.ns
• 
  автор: Anatoly Mikhaltsov
• 
  автор:Renato Augusto Martins
• 
  автор: Anton Korablev
• 
  автор:Senthiaathavan

Upload photoes

Cosmos. Nomination dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the first manned space flight. Examples:

• 
  автор: Ram samudrala
• 
  автор: Pline
• 
  автор:Mplot
• 
  автор: AlexKrivel
• 
  Солнечное затмение 2017 года, автор: Michael S Adler

Upload photoes

Science around us. All else goes into this category from archaeology to zoology and from vulcanology to astronomy. Examples:

• 
  автор: Lucasbosch
• 
  автор: Maria Plotnikova
• 
  автор: VektorF
• 
  автор: Katcerina
• 
  автор: Andrey Chernogorodov

Upload photoes

Conquering the Arctic. Photos and illustrations dedicated to the everyday life of Arctic explorers from the old days to the present, including maps and local landscapes.. Examples:

• 
  автор: Hgrobe
• 
  автор: Martas011
• 
  автор: Miracles Observer
• 
  автор: FlotMethanol
• 
  автор: AWeith

Terms

1. Contest timeframe:

• 1.1. From the 2st of Aprilh through the 31st of May 2022 — uploading contest works.
• 1.2. From the 1st through the 31nd of June 2021 — judging.
• 1.3. 1st of July 2022 — publishing contest results & informing the winners.
• 1.4. From the 11nd of July through the 31th of August 2022 — delivering prizes to winners.

2. Contest participation conditions

• 2.1 Contest participants are not limited by the number of works filed for the competition.
• 2.2 All works must be uploaded under free license. Acceptable types are CC-BY-SA 4.0, CC-BY 4.0, CC0 1.0, and others.
• 2.3 Contest is open for both professional and amateur photographers.
• 2.4 By entering a work for the competition, the participants confirms having read, understood and accepted these conditions.
• 2.5 The Creative Competition is open to citizens of the Russian Federation or any other CIS country who are at least 14 years of age and are the authors of works submitted for the Creative Competition, as well as to representatives of legal entities and individual businessmen who are the copyright holders of the works submitted for the Creative Competition.

Please be mindful of the current COVID-19 outbreak related measures and keeping quarantines when visualizing science.

Prizes

• Three winners in each of the eight nominations will receive monetary prizes amounting to 10 000 rubles. Total prize fund amounts to 240 thousand rubles.

Jury

• Dmitry Zhukov — Russian Wikipedia administrator, free knowledge advocate, Russian Wikipedia contributors since 2005.
• Stanislav Kozlovsky — Russian Wikipedia administrator, Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Psychology, docent of Lomonosov Moscow State University, «Wikimedia RU» executive director.
• Mariya Semyonova — Editor-in-chief of «Nauka» TV channel.
• Anatoly Tsapenko — Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Mathematics, Russian Wikipedia contributors since 2007.

Organizers

«Wikimedia RU» Non-Profit-Partnership — Non-Commercial Partnership for the Advancement of Encyclopedic Knowledge is a legally independent non-profit organization, established to support activities conducted within the territory of the Russian Federation related to development of free encyclopedic, educational and other information, reflecting knowledge accumulated by humanity. The leading project of the kind is a free internet-encyclopedia «Wikipedia», whose editions in the languages of Russia are one of the main aspects of «Wikimedia RU» activities.

---

«Nauka» TV channel logo

«Nauka» — Russia's most popular TV channel about science and discoveries. «Nauka» 's films and programs cover main achievements of Russian and international scientific community in a simple and accessible way. «Nauka»'s programs won dozens of prestigious awards, translated into 7 languages and available for viewing in many countries of the world.

---

• Pageview stats for here