Each national contest will result in 10 nominated images for the European contest. The European jury, made up of seven members with different skills and backgrounds, will determine the winners of this final round out of the nominated images and award the prizes.
Criteria
The jury will determine the winners of the European contest by the following criteria (in no particular order):
Technical quality (Sharpness, use of light, perspective etc.)
Originality / setting
Usefulness of the image on Wikipedia
Jury members
The following jury members have been confirmed:
- Michael Biedowicz, director of photography of the Zeit Magazin
- Ann Branch, head of the Culture programme and actions unit at the European Commission
- Sebastiaan ter Burg, professional CC-BY-SA photographer
- Tomasz Ganicz, president of Wikimedia Polska, Wikipedian since 2001 and enthusiast photographer
- José Gustavo Góngora, Wikipedian since 2006 and philologist
- Marina Milella, archaeologist in Rome and Wikipedian since 2004
- Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, Secretary-General of Europa Nostra
