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Wiki Science Competition is an international photo contest for the sciences hosted by Wikimedia Submission period: 15 November – 15 December 2021 by: Maido Merisalu by: Heiti Paves by: Tõnu Pani by: Tõnu Pani by: Tõnu Pani Share with your friends:  Email  Facebook  Twitter This webpage in Thai/หน้าเว็บนี้ในภาษาไทย: Wiki Science Competition 2021 in Thailand

About

Looking for great images. Photo by Mati Kose. Estonian Science Photo Competition 2013. CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Wiki Science Competition (WSC) is an international photo competition for sciences, organized by Wikimedians in Thailand aiming to promote and engage people with science in Thailand and beyond. It will take place between 15 November – 15 December 2021. This competition was first organized in Estonia. In 2015, the contest was expanded to all of Europe. European Science Photo Competition resulted in almost 10,000 freely licensed images attracting over 2,200 contesters. This year is the first time it will be organized globally.

This competition was brought to Wikipedia because Wikipedia is an active platform dedicated to collecting and sharing educational content freely to everyone. Being open access, and 7th most accessed website in the world are just some of the features of Wikipedia that make it an excellent platform for science and science photos in particular. Science photo competition is a motivational framework for catalyzing the formation of sustainable relationship between the scientists and Wikimedia community.

Wiki Science Competition consists of two levels: there is a local competition in each participating country and the local organizing team will forward chosen pictures to the international competition.

Rules

Submissions must be made between 15 November – 15 December 2021 with an e-mail registered Wikimedia account.	There is no limit to the number of images one can upload. If you upload more than one image, only one highest prize is eligible. The rest shall be awarded to the next highest scoring entrant.	The image must be published under a free use license or as public domain. The possible licenses are CC-BY-SA 4.0, CC-BY 4.0, CC0 1.0, and similar.
Images entered into the competition must be taken or authored by submitter of the image. In case of multiple authors, all the co-authors’ names must be provided. In case of institutional uploads, submission can be made by a representative of the organization.	The image needs to have a good scientific description. Description in English is required for every submitted image, although descriptions in other languages are also welcomed.	Upload the highest resolution possible. The image size should be at least 2 megapixels, unless the technology used does not allow it. The image must not contain water mark, logo, additional text, graphics, or insets.

How to participate

Submission is now closed.

Awarded national finalists

The awarded national finalists were contacted through their Talk page in January 2022.

People in Science

National finalist 1		National finalist 2
Thailand has a plan to use floating solar farm that’s equivalent to about 70 football fields in size has begun generating power in Ubon Ratchatani, reflecting the country’s push to achieve carbon-neutral status by 2050. These people trying to test a solar farm before using it at Sirindhorn Dam. Joe628 1st national finalist		A frog dissection in a biology class at school. Tonkaoo 2nd national finalist

Microscopy images

National finalist 1		National finalist 2
A549 cells isolated from the lung tissue of a 58-year-old Caucasian male with lung cancer. Pinyapat Prisananuntakul 1st national finalist		Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. Peanutbutter15 2nd national finalist

Non-photographic media

National finalist 1
Siamosaurus suteethorni gazing off into the sunset. Siamosaurus is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur from Thailand, known only from tooth fossils. It is the first spinosaurid reported in Asia and the name honors Thai palaeontologist Varavudh Suteethorn. The reconstruction is based on the closely related Ichthyovenator laosensis and a sail fossil from Khok Kruat Formation that could possibly be from Siamosaurus. DinoThaiThai Chatchy 1st national finalist

Image sets

National finalist 1
File:Our Planet Earth.jpg
Our planet Earth, our home, is the only planet in the universe where we've ever identified living organisms. The image set shows the colorful nature of our Earth and some of man-made structures. Joe628 1st national finalist

Wildlife & nature

National finalist 1		National finalist 2
Black Kites in Nakhon Nayok. Chainfoto 1st national finalist		Ladybugs foraging on Chinese cap mushrooms in Phetchaburi. Chainfoto 2nd national finalist

Astronomy

National finalist 1		National finalist 2
A beautiful landscape of paddy fields under the Milky Way at Pa Pong Pieng village in Mae Chaem, Chiang Mai. Chainfoto 1st national finalist		A crescent Moon and Venus at greatest brilliancy on December 7, 2021, as seen from near Phra Pathom Chedi, Nakhon Pathom. Paul-shy 2nd national finalist

General category

National finalist 1		National finalist 2
When zooming inside Thai Vanda spp., the petals, lip and column are shown which can be concluded to be "Amazing". ! Chanokpat.kijkar 1st national finalist		An ant can lift an object that weighs more than 50 times its own weight. Tonkhaosamon 2nd national finalist

Judging

• You can view all of the submissions here
• National finalists (33 total)
• Awarded national finalists (12 total)

Image categories

People in Science – Scientists in their natural habitat.

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  Lecturer Vadim Evgenyevich Privalov presents material of electrostatics for first-year students, by Dan5265
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  Laboratory cultivation and sampling of microalgae, by Gergana Marinova
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  Estonian ornithologist Kalev Rattiste taking notes on Kakrarahu islet, by Johanna Adojaan
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  Dönüş Tuncel in the lab, by Yigit Altay
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  Archaeological works in Eastern Poland, by Archeologia.chodlik

Microscopy images – Optical, electron, and scanning probe microscopy images all fall under this category.

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  SEM image of bacteria immobilised on a mineral surface, by Stefan Weiss
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  Millipedes, by Pr.zs.i
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  Praseodymium tungstate particle encapsulated in PVB nanofibers, by Stanislav.nevyhosteny
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  Confocal laser scanning fluorescence micrograph of thale cress anther, by Heiti Paves
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  Surface of butterfly feeler, by Pavel Kejzlar

Non-photographic media – Audio and video files, computer-generated imagery, etc.

• Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes, by Heiti Paves
• Demonstrating the properties of YBCO superconductor, by Maxim Bilovitskiy
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  Basins of attraction (Ricker model, William Edwin (Bill) Ricker), by Matvei Kulakov
• Lorentz сhaos as black hole German A. Chernykh & Irina A, by Chernykh
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  The difference between the integral and the truncated sum of Bessel function, by Taweetham

Image sets – Thematically linked images, that can be viewed as one set. Image set could be made up from up to 10 separate images.

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  Moon passes directly behind the Earth, by Christina Irakleous
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  Compilation of photos taken by Estonian first satellite ESTCube-1, by Erik Kulu
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  Morphology of Zygaena, by Francisco Martinez Clavel

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  A human zygote (1st day of development), by NinaSes
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  A human zygote (2nd day of development), by NinaSes
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  A human zygote (3rd day of development), by NinaSes

Wildlife & nature – Organisms who grow or live wild in an area. Macro photography also falls under this category.

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  Female arctic fox Alopex lagopus tagged with a satellite transmitter to study its winter roaming on Kolguyev Island, by Hobboto4ek, edited by MPF
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  A cicada just emerging from its pupae, by Martin Nielsen
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  Antarctic jellyfish Diplulmaris antarctica, by Erwan Amice
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  Preserved female Dorcus parallelipipedus, by Sebastián J.L
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  Incubation chambers in Sassendalen, Svalbard, used to assess Cyanobacteria's capability to fix nitrogen gas by enzyme nitrogenase, by Kertu Liis Krigul

Astronomy – That collects all images related to astronomy. May it be the images of stars, people viewing them or the equipment used for it.

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  Total solar eclipse, by Michael S Adler
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  Fluorescence detectors (FD) used to measure the longitudinal profile of an air shower in a calorimetric way, by Robycol03
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  The great refractor in Kuffner Observatory, Vienna, Austria, by Manfred Werner
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  The Carina Nebula, by Ivan Bok
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  A meteor, a satellite and an aeroplane over the Paranal Observatory, Chile, with a stargazer in the foreground, by Yourong Wang

General category – Everything else goes into this category, from archaeology to volcanology.

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  Pobiti Kamani, by Sborisova
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  Archaeological finds from early medieval burials, by Archeologia.chodlik
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  Water under 11 Hz vibration.jpg, by Jordi Torrents
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  Sulfide disaster in Levikha Village, Sverdlovsk region of Russia, by Vasily Iakovlev
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  Fluorescence and birefringence of 445 nm laser in calcite crystal, by Jan Pavelka

Awards

The national finalists will proceed to the international round which has separate awards. Visit https://www.wikisciencecompetition.org/ for more information. The national finalists of WSC 2021 in Thailand will receive the following prizes Central Gift Card valued 1,000 Baht (10 prizes in total) Special prizes exclusive to Wikimedia Thailand 3 fold automatic umbrella (22 inch diameter, 8 ribs, rain and UV protection) Wikimedia Thailand desk calendar (displays photos from previous Wiki Loves Earth in Thailand and Wiki Loves Monuments in Thailand photo contests) 500 ml vacuum stainless steel water bottle (heat and cold insulation) Wikipedia T-shirt *Note: The organizer reserves the right to distribute one prize per one finalist.

Wikimedia Thailand water bottle

Wikimedia Thailand umbrella Wikimedia Thailand t-shirt

Jury

The jury comprises of specialists across scientific disciplines:

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jessada Denduangboripant, Chulalongkorn University (Life sciences)
• Mr. Visanu Euarchukiati, Siam Society, Thai Astronomical Society and a committee member for Astronomy Vocabulary Dictionary of the Thai Royal Society
• Dr. Sawang Petvises, Thammasat University (Life sciences)

Local sponsors

National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) www.nstda.or.th/

www.wikimedia.org

Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST) www.ipst.ac.th/

Organizer

Volunteering Wikimedians in Thailand

Volunteers
Organizing team: Karto1, Tanapatjms, Teetee_taw
Supporting team: Athikhun.suw, taweetham