Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2025 in the Philippines
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The Wiki Science Competition is a biennial international science photography competition being held during November 15 through December 31, 2025. PhilWiki Community organizes the Philippine edition of the competition. The competition was first organized in Estonia, and expanded to the rest of the world in 2017.
To participate, you must be the owner of photos you upload, and must have the rights to upload them. The photos should be of good quality and acceptable size, and need to have a good description including what the image depicts, how and where it was made, and what is important to notice about it. It is encouraged to add the images to appropriate Commons categories. For more details, see the full international rules.
Important: make sure that under Preferences, "Allow other users to email me" is enabled. If we can't contact you, you'll waste your win!
If you already have an account, you can enter the contest using the button below. The contest period is from November 15 to December 31, 2025.
See all photographs uploaded from the Philippines! Use the hashtags 
#WSC2025 #WikiScience #WikiScience2025 to spread the word about the competition!
Categories and prizes
[edit]The competition is divided into seven categories. The Philippine jury will select five finalists from each category to submit to the international competition. The categories are:
- People in science. Got a photograph of a Nobel Prize winner you've always wanted to upload? Or perhaps your dissertation advisor? Maybe your benchmate? We want your photos of scientists! (Especially if they're wearing proper PPE of course!)
- Microscopy. Photos of small things can be big contributions!
- Astronomy. Photos of big things can be big contributions too!
- Non-photographic media. We know you have a really cool diagram you made; or a computer-generated image; or even audio or video of a research result, or a scientific method being performed.
- Image sets. Because sometimes, one just isn't enough! This category is for sets of three to ten thematically linked images.
- Wildlife and nature. Do you love taking long walks in the woods, desert, or mountains? This category is for the wild organisms you find growing or living in nature, including macro photography.
- General. Everything else. Examples include: archaeology, volcanology, X-ray images, ...
PhilWiki Community is sponsoring "Jury's Choice" prizes. More information coming soon!
Can I upload that photograph?
[edit]Determining the copyright status of images can be tricky. The guidance should tell you whether you can upload your photograph. If you have any questions, please contact us in the talk page.
- In general, publication status determines whether you can upload an image.
- If the image is unpublished, you generally have the rights to upload it. University and government intellectual property agreements usually do not cover copyright in text or images. If you work for a for-profit company, check with your employer.
- If the image is published in a journal, you need to check the journal's copyright agreement. When you publish in a journal, you usually transfer the copyright to them, and you no longer own the rights to the images. The exceptions are if the article is published under an acceptable Creative Commons or other free-content license (such as PLOS journals), or under an arrangement where you retain copyright (such as Nature journals). Additionally, authors usually retain the copyright to Supplementary Information documents, so you can upload those. Jisc Open Policy Finder is a tool that can tell you the copyright status of articles submitted to any scientific journal.
- However, there are some types of images that can always be uploaded regardless of publication status.