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Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Nepal highlights
Promoting Wiki Loves Earth Contest in Nepal

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The Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Nepal competition is organized by Maithili Wikimedians User Group in collaboration with Wikimedians of Nepal. To promote the competition locally Maithili Wikimedians organized three outreach events.

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Maithili Wikimedians outreach in Pokhara, Nepal. Image by Author Bijay Chaurasia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wiki Loves Earth is an international photographic competition to promote natural heritage sites around the World through Wikimedia projects (mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons).

The goal of the project is to collect freely-licensed pictures of as many natural monuments and protected areas as possible and contribute to nature protection by raising public awareness. Those pictures are to be used to illustrate articles on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

This year's competition was organized by Maithili Wikimedians User Group in collaboration with Wikimedians of Nepal. Wikimedians of Nepal has already participated in the Wiki Loves Earth 2014 and 2015 competitions, during which over 6100 pictures have been uploaded under Creative Commons licenses. In 2016 there were 2274 images uploaded from May 1 to June 15. This time 271 people takes part in the competition, which is comparatively high than past two WLE events. Indra Rai top the chart as he uploads 267 files to the commons through this competition.

Maithili Wikimedians organized three outreach to promote the competition locally. The first outreach was conducted in Pokhara, second in Ilam and third in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve Area. There were plenty of interested photographer, local media person, students and enthusiasts to take part in the outreach program. This kind of outreach is never done before in the country and the best part about the outreach is photographs from the local upload their photographs to commons. There are lots of area to be cover because Nepal is naturally awesome.

The Winning photographs from the competition are as follows: