Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Illustrate Climate Change competition

Help illustrate climate change information on Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of the largest and most widely read climate change information resources in the world, used by 500 million people every month. A large amount of high quality visual content from Wikipedia photography competitions, scientific literature and other sources is available and could be used. This competition encourages Wikipedia contributors across all languages to improve visual communication and visual storytelling in Wikipedia articles about all aspects of climate change.

The three top contributors will win signed copies of the Greta Thunberg book The Climate Book!

Competition dates

17th April - 17th May 2025

The prizes for this competition are gratiously provided by the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) Network

Get started

Step 1: Create a Wikipedia account (if you don't have one already)

Step 2: Sign up: add your name to the list of participants below

Step 3: Activities: do any of the activities listed below and keep count of your score

Activities

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Tell people about the project	Encourage other people to take part on Wikiprojects, social media and anywhere else you like, especially in other languages.	5 minutes	1 point for each place you share it
Add an image to an article	Add a relevant climate change related image with a good quality caption, to a Wikipedia article in any language, this includes replacing an image with a more suitable one. Some suggested collections of images are listed below.	3 minutes	1 point
Suggest images on Commons which could be used	Suggest categories of images on Commons which could be used to illustrate climate related articles. The Climate Visuals guide may be helpful in chosing suitable images.	3 minutes	2 points
Suggest images that could be uploaded to Commons	Suggest images related to climate chnage which could be uploaded, they must have a Wikimedia Commons compatible license. The Climate Visuals guide may be helpful in chosing suitable images.	3 minutes	4 points

Useful resources

More about climate change communication?: Climate Visuals 7 Core Principles for Climate Change Communication , also Guidelines for Effective Data Visualizations in Academic Papers
How to add an image to Wikipedia: Help page here
Have a question about Wikipedia and climate change?: Ask at WikiProject Climate change

Participants

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Name	Total points	Scoring
Example user	1	Promoting the competition: 1 Add an image to an article: 0 Suggest images on Commons which could be used: 0 Suggest images that could be uploaded to Commons: 0

Name of collection on Commons	Creators	Example image	Number of images
Show your Stripes	Professor Ed Hawkins	Show Your Stripes change in temperature graphic for Hawaii, United States	4385
Climate Visuals	Climate Visuals	Burning of rice residues after harvest	323
International Energy Agency	International Energy Agency	Power capacity by technology - 2010 - 2022	101
Our World in Data - Energy and Environment	Our World in Data	Average acres burned per wildfire in the United States	1125

Name of collection	Creators	Example image (please upload an example image)	Number of images