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Wiki Science Competition is an international photo and video competition organized with the core support of
Wikimedia Switzerland, Wikimedia Estonia
Upload phase: 15th November 2021 - 15th December 2021

Wiki Science Competition is the biggest science photo competition in the world. After 2019, Switzerland takes part for the second time in Wiki Science Competition 2021 (WSC) with its own national jury and prizes, thanks to the financial support of Wikimedia Switzerland. The competition includes also Liechtenstein.

 
WSC2021 Swiss Flyer in English

Files of scientists, research subjects and research processes are all welcome.

Photos, graphs and videos are a way to disseminate academic results or inform the citizenship about technical and scientific activities paid with public fundings.

In order to become a national finalist, pictures are expected to be sharp, with colours in the correct tone and the image exposed and framed correctly. Due to the scientific nature of the project, providing accurate information is essential. The description provided should answer such questions as: "Who is there in the picture? How is the photo taken? Where is the photo taken? What should you pay attention to?". Links to peer-reviewed publication in the description are also welcome. Some images will be used for the social media campaign.

For images, the original size is preferred. All submitted photos will be under a Creative Commons licence, CC BY-SA 4.0. Th rules of the international competition are listed here.

In the national and international competition there are six distinct categories: people in science, microscopy images, non-photographic media, image sets, nature and a general category.

website - possible categories

Some examples from all around the world.

Scientists in their natural habitat.

  • Lecturer Vadim Evgenyevich Privalov presents material of electrostatics for first-year students of the Faculty of Radiophysics of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. (Dan5265).

  • Teaching biology at school: classification of Diptera to assess the quality of waters in the irrigation canals of rice paddies of Vercelli (Monica Girelli).

  • Inspecting the SuperDARN radar antenna installed at the Concordia research station, Antarctica (Paride Legovini).

Optical, electron, and scanning probe microscopy images all fall under this category.

  • Linear arrangement of ascospores in the asci of the fungus Sordaria macrospora (Aurora Storlazzi).

  • False-color SEM image of a suspended nano-LC resonator (Alessandro Pitanti)

  • Confocal laser scanning fluorescence micrograph of thale cress anther (part of stamen), (Heiti Paves)

Non-photographic media

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Audio and video files, computer-generated imagery.

  • Caenorhabditis elegans (Heiti Paves)

  • Property of high-temperature superconducting ceramics YBCO, an alloy of oxides of yttrium, barium and copper in proportions (Maxim Bilovitskiy)

  • Diagram of human eye (Chabacano)

Thematically linked images, that can be viewed as one set. Image set could be made up from up to 10 separate images. In the last case, images titles must be similar to each other (they could be named using a progressive pattern such as “Name 1.jpg”, “Name 2.jpg” etc).

  • Morphology of Zygaena (Lepidoptera; Zygaenidae; Zygaena; Fabricius 1775) wings (Francisco Martinez Clavel)

  • Corona Discharge (MrJanCroatian)

  • University of Rennes 1 - Charles Oberthür's Lepidoptera collections - holarctic ecozone (EdouardHue & VIGNERON)

Organisms who grow or live wild in an area. Macro photography also falls under this category. Some pictures in cages if scientifically relevant might be accepted.

  • Halyomorpha Halys neanides on fig leaf (Ezio Sacchi)

  • Paragobiodon xanthosoma hiding into hard coral (Fabio Strazzi)

  • Thomisus onustus on flower, inject poison into its prey (User:Termauri)

It's a new category created starting from the 2021 edition (previously such files were put under "general")

  • Misure Lidar da un'installazione nel Dome C, Antartide (Paride Legovini)

  • image of the rose-coloured star forming region Messier 17 was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile (European Southern Observatory)

  • Emission-line filtered image of the Carina Nebula, photographed using a modified version of what is known as the Hubble palette

Everything else goes into this category, from archaeology to thermodynamics and from medicine to vulcanology.

  • Archaeologist from Chodlik Archaeological Mission of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences working with archaeological finds from early medieval burials discovered in Chodlik (Archeologia.chodlik)

  • figurative decoration of the "Glass" or "Cup" "of the Warriors of Archena" and is created through a special image treatment process.

  • Aerial view of the tributary of the Chusovaya river, Sverdlovsk region

  • Orchid conservation achieved by ex situ propagation

Main website - how to participate

The website will be active to upload images from 00:00 (CET) 15 November 2021 up to 23:59 (CET) 15 December 2021.

To participate you will need a account wikimedia, which is valid for all platforms of the wikimedia ecosystem. You can create an account here. Be sure to add your email address so that we can contact you when you win!

The upload link is hosted on this page

For the "set of images" category, please try to provide sequential naming, so the nature of the group is self-evident.

For videos, you might need to wait few days before you can upload them (it's a filter to prevent massive copyright violation), please inform the organizers if you want to be sure that the upload process is smooth and do not wait the last days.

Files should not be original strictu sensu, the main goal is to increase freely available material on the web, so files submitted with more rigid licenses to previous event can be resubmitted.

If you want to take a look at the uploaded images you can scroll this category.

Here is an informal selection.

  • Dominique LANDWEHR (media specialist, editor of the book series Edition Digital Culture, website )
  • Alessandro COBBE (mathematics)
  • Alessandro MARCHETTI (chemistry, outreach)
  • Mascha STROOBANT (biology, outreach)

Winners (1st national finalists) in every category (if assigned) will get a 400 CHF prize and runner-ups a 200 CHF prize.

The award ceremony will take place in Lugano, on May 18th. We are kindly hosted by the Università della Svizzera Italiana at the Auditorium on th third floor of the main building in via Guseppe Buffi 13.

 
Flyer Award ceremony of Wiki Science Competition 2021 in Switzerland ENG ITA

This is the programme for the day

PART 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION

11:00: Opening

11:10: Welcome by Luca Gambardella, Pro-Rector for Innovation and Corporate Relations of USI

11:20: Jenny Ebermann, CEO of Wikimedia Switzerland

11:30: Ivo Kruusamägi, Chairman of Wikimedia Estonia and founder of Wiki Science Competition

11:40: Silvia Misiti, director of IBSA Foundation for scientific research

11:50: Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, director of Istituto Dalle Molle di studi sull’intelligenza artificiale (IDSIA)

PART 2: PRIZE GIVING

12:00: The host (Alessandro Marchetti) will give the prizes in the following order:

  • Marian Duven
  • Charlotte E. T. Huyghe
  • ETH Library
  • Anna Sophia Kamenik
  • Samuel Tobler
  • Louis Scarabino
  • Didier Roguet

PART 3: CLOSURE

12:40: Group photo with all the winners

12:45: Buffet starts

Full reimbursement of all the travel costs of the finalists attending the event should be possible, unless people are not coming from distant countries.[1]

  1. ↑ Winners and runner-ups have already received a preliminary contact via mail, please add your e-mail to your user profile or contact the social media channels of WMCH or of the international organizers.