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As some of you may remember, it was impossible to organize Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy last year, because of a law that assigns extra copyright on monumental buildings to the government – even if all regular copyright has expired. This means basically that you are not allowed to walk around in Italy, take a […]
In April and May 2012 the Narva Museum‘s Art Gallery in Estonia showed an exhibition of photographs from the Wiki Loves Monuments contest in Estonia and St. Petersburg. The exhibition was jointly organized by Wikimedia Estonia and Wikimedia Russia; it presented the winners and the regional finalists of the competition Wiki loves monuments 2011, including photos […]
With an increasing number of participating countries for Wiki Loves Monuments this year (30 countries indicated their interest and counting!) we have an international coordination team of four Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 organizers. However, even with four volunteers we wouldn’t be able to keep a proper overview and give the countries the attention they deserve. […]
As Wiki Loves Monuments goes global this year, and there are more and more countries joining the competition, the international facilitating group is trying to help new participants to kick-start preparations in their countries. Following Lodewijk’s successful visit to the United Kingdom in February, Tomasz visited Ukraine and the Czech Republic on the weekend of […]
„Augmented reality is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data“ „Layar is a Dutch company [that has] created a mobile browser called Layar. The browser allows users to find various items based upon augmented reality […]
Besides the already known prizes for the best pictures in the several categories, we also announced a prize for the best monument video. Open Images has generously provided a Unlimited Spotify account for 20 months for the best video. The winner of this prize is this French video about an old wallpaper printing machine (built […]
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo contest around cultural heritage monuments in September. Starting from the Netherlands in 2010 and organized on a European level in 2011, we go global in 2012! Everybody can participate and improve Wikipedia in their local and regional neigbourhood. Cultural heritage is everywhere around you, you just need to […]
After almost a year of preparations we’re proud to announce the winner of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011. Wiki Loves Monuments started in 2010 as a photo competition in one country (Netherlands) and turned into a European competition in 2011. 18 countries participated in the organization and over 165.000 photos were contributed by over 5000 (mostly […]
Europeana just announced that the picture by Csaba Attila Kontar of the interior of the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, Hungary has won the Special Europeana Prize for Art Nouveau in Wiki Loves Monuments. A virtual exhibition with the top images from the Art Nouveau category in the Wiki Loves Monuments competition will be […]
The jury for the special award offered by the Euroregion Pyrenees Mediterranean has decidedthe winner from best photos submitted of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. Ten photos were selected with honourable mentions: 3 from Catalonia, 5 from Languedoc-Roussillon and 2 from Midi-Pyrénées. Among castles and churches, the winner is a typical Mediterranean seaside […]
Photos submitted of Catalonia have different possibilities of awards at different levels. Besides the common European and Spanish levels, they have entered in the special award for Pyrenees-Mediterranean, as one of the four constituent regions, and they opt to two local prices offered by two Catalan institutions. As a result, the participation in Catalonia has […]
3 112 images were uploaded by 71 participants for the Estonian Wiki Loves Monuments contest. The Estonian jury presented their winners at November 12th. Ten pictures will participate in European contest. And eleven pictures will travel across Estonia as part of photo exhibition in public libraries. Congratulations to the winners!