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The Wikipedia @ OHNY (Open House New York) Weekend Photo Competition was the latest iteration of our Wikipedia Takes Manhattan series, held on Saturday & Sunday, October 17-18, 2015 (we were present at the welcome booth from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm each day).

Please see the Open House New York event site, and use Commons:Campaign:OHNY once the event begins. The deadline for uploading photos taken during the event was October 24.

Sign up

A couple of Wikipedians will be at the Open House New York welcome booth (Saturday being located in Manhattan, Sunday in Brooklyn), from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm each day, to introduce the general public to the art of Wikimedia Commons photography, and to answer any questions about the competition.

Hashtag: #OHNYwknd

Saturday: Union Square

Location: Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan (Union Square West at E 15th Street)
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2015
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Pharos (talk) 16:25, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Jim.henderson (talk) 21:21, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sunday: Grand Army Plaza

Location: Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket in Brooklyn (Grand Army Plaza at Flatbush Avenue)
Date: Sunday, October 18, 2015
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Pharos (talk) 16:25, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Event information

Wikipedia @ OHNY Weekend Photo Competition

Open House New York and Wikimedia NYC invite you to participate in one of the largest collaboratively compiled and edited media projects in history.

During this year's OHNY Weekend, submit your best photos of all the Weekend sites you visit for a chance to win prizes! Prizes will be awarded to the best photos in three categories - Interiors, Exteriors, and Details - one of which will also be named Grand Prize Winner.

After winners are chosen and prizes awarded, all submitted photographs will then become part of Wikimedia Commons, the online repository of free-use, public domain images that are used across Wikimedia - including as illustrations for Wikipedia articles. Your photos could one day illustrate an article about an OHNY Weekend site, about architecture, or about New York City!

All submitted photos must be taken during OHNY Weekend on October 17-18 and feature a participating site. The deadline to submit photos is 11:59 pm on Saturday, October 24. Read on for more information about competition rules, eligibility, prizes, and judging, or see the PDF version.

Please note: In keeping with the guidelines of Wikimedia Commons, all photos entered in to the Wikipedia @ OHNY Weekend Photo Competition will be considered to be freely licensed under the ~~Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike~~ license, permitting free use for any purpose and the creation of derivative works.

Prizes

Prizes will be awarded to the best photos in three categories - Interiors, Exteriors, and Details - one of which will also be named as the Grand Prize Winner. Each category winner will receive a $100 voucher for New York City Photo Safari that can be used towards booking any regular Photo Safari. One Grand Prize winner will also receive an iPad Mini. Winners will be announced in November.

To enter

Submit your photo online at commons:Campaign:OHNY. The deadline to submit photos is 11:59 pm on Saturday, October 24. Photos will not be accepted via any other means. Please note that you will be asked to create a Wikimedia Commons account to submit photos, and be sure to include your email address so that you can be contacted if you are selected as a category winner.

Photo submissions should:

Be taken during OHNY Weekend on Saturday or Sunday, October 17 or 18, 2015 at a participating OHNY Weekend site or tour
Be properly labeled in the "description" field with the name of the site or tour in which the photo was taken. Photo descriptions that do not name the site will not be eligible
Highlight architecture and design excellence, and not your fellow explorers including OHNY participants, volunteers, and guides.

Eligibility

Entrants must be 18 years or older
The entrant guarantees that (s)he is the copyright holder of the work
In keeping with the guidelines of Wikimedia Commons, photos will be considered to be freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, permitting free use for any purpose and the creation of derivative works.

Jury

One winner will be chosen in each category - Interiors, Exteriors, and Details - from among all submission by judges:

Pat Kiernan, Morning Anchor, NY1
Roy Kim, President, Open House New York Board of Directors
Alexandra Lange, Architecture Critic, Curbed
Erica Stoller, Director, Esto.

Questions?

Representatives from Wikimedia NYC will be available to answer questions about Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia Commons at OHNY Weekend Hubs at the Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan (Union Square West at E 15th Street) on Saturday, October 17, and at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket in Brooklyn (Grand Army Plaza at Flatbush Avenue) on Sunday, October 18.

You can also email us at info@ohny.org.

By submitting a photo for the Wikimedia @ OHNY Weekend Photo Competition, you agree to all of the above rules and conditions.

Open House New York gratefully acknowledges the generous support of New York City Photo Safari for this year's competition prizes.

Gallery

Quality is generally higher than the usual run of Wikipedia illustrations, as seen in this small sample:

Atop one of the Newtown Creek digester eggs
Atrium of BAT
Barrels upon barrels upon barrels
Beautiful Woolworth Building
Bohemian National Hall Interior
Breezeway at BAT
Brooklyn Army Terminal-art installation
Brooklyn Army Terminal-courtyard
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Christmas ornaments get to stay@Porcelanosa
Fright attendants
Crane-HamiltonAveMarineTransferStations
Domed Rotunda
Exterior of City Hall
Ford Foundation Building Interior
George Washington Statue
Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station Kayak View
Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station NYC Sanitation
Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station Trash Dropoff
Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station
HamiltonAveMarineTransferStation
HI NYC
Interesting light fixtures
JohnJay (15 of 35)
JohnJay (16 of 35)
JohnJay (21 of 35)
JohnJay (23 of 35)
JohnJay (9 of 35)
JohnJay College of Criminal Justice
Lower Manhattan as seen from the clock tower of Jefferson Market Library, October 17, 2015
Morgan Library
My City Hall
Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
NY City Hall Council Chamber Crown Molding
On the rooftop@Porcelanosa
Ramp-HamiltonAveMarineTransferStation
Stairs and ramps, angles and curves
Statue of Liberty - view from Brooklyn Army Terminal
Studio space at The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation
Sunny Compactors at Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station
The architect said "Krion is translucent" @Porcelanosa
The Paymaster
Tour of Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station
US Customs House
View from Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station
Weathered Railroad Ties of the BAT
Whiskey and moonshine
Whitney Museum 2
Whitney Museum
Winking in the sun