Wiki Loves Bangla or Banglar Preme Wiki, is an international photo contest on Bangla culture and heritage, organized by Bangla WikiMoitree in January. As part of the Bangla Culture and Heritage Collation Program, the competition is held on a different theme every year. The public takes photos depicting Bangla culture and heritage worldwide, uploads those to Wikimedia Commons, and then can use them on Wikipedia and elsewhere. The goal is to make the Bangla culture and heritage flourish to the worldwide public. See also www.wikilovesbangla.org (international website).
Wikimedia Bangladesh organized the Wiki Loves Earth in Bangladesh from 2017 to 2020. It is an annual international photographic competition around the conservation areas of the participating countries. The main motivation behind participating in the competition was that most of the protected areas in Bangladesh don’t have photographs under the free license and we wanted to create a database of freely licensed photographs of all the protected sites of Bangladesh in Wikimedia Commons; Wiki Loves Earth offered a unique opportunity in this regard.
