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From the large number of submitted images, the Romanian jury made a short selection of 284 finalists and then selected the 10 winners, based on 3 criteria: technical merit, originality and usefulness for Wikipedia. Here are our winners:
“Every country has a windmill under its top 10 – people love windmills“, one of our (of course, Dutch) team members joked some days ago. Well, Denmark proved this joke and broke the records with three windmills in their top 10 images for Wiki Loves Monuments! Today the Danish jury presented their winners. The selected […]
At Sunday evening the jury announced the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments in Germany, along with the 100 best images in the German contest. Congratulations go to User:Memorino for the image of the Anhäuser Mauer, the remains of an eremitic monastery in South Germany. We are especially happy about the many, many new users who […]
João Martinho, with a photo of the Carmo Church in Lisbon was the Portuguese winner of Wiki Loves Monuments. The framework, focus, lighting, resolution, absence of distortion and manipulation and composition were the reasons that convinced the jury, consisting of representatives from the Pousadas de Portugal, Fotosport, IGESPAR, Sintra Town Hall and two Wikimedians who […]
The Polish Wiki Loves Monuments jury gathered on Saturday, October 15, to decide about the results of the Polish edition of the contest. The meeting and an e-mail voting that followed ended on today, so we’re now proud to announce the results. From over 16,700 photos uploaded by Polish users we have chosen 134 pictures […]
After a tough jury work, where more than 5000 pictures has been evaluated back and forth against each other, the contest has now come to an end. It has been a joyfull work and it is an incredible amount of good pictures that now can be used on Wikipedia. All the pictures that has been […]
One day, 9000 monuments: no chance? The Cologne Wikipedia crowd and our sponsor Pausanio called Cologne citizens to action and invited them to a „Wiki takes Cologne” day on Sunday from 10-17 h. A clear blue sky sent us the first photographers at 9:45, and over the whole day people – among them a significant number of […]
Wiki Loves Monuments has a range of prizes at different levels: local, national or European. The Euroregion Pyrenees-Mediterranean proposes another different possibility: a cross-border prize for the best photo of the euroregion formed by Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées; two Spanish regions and two French ones. Euroregions are cooperation structures between contiguous territories located in different European countries. The […]
It’s been almost ten days since Wiki Loves Monuments started and we’re about to reach 27,000 uploads. Germany, the first country with more than 4,000 submitted pictures, is now steady the country with the most uploads. Among the most active uploaders is a user called Hippie Bug93 who despite being new to the Wikimedia projects […]
There are monuments everywhere, and it is quite simple to participate! However, it is of course much more fun to go together with a group, explore the monuments of a city and make sure the whole city has been covered. That is exactly what we try to accommodate in Wiki takes the City! We organize […]
Monuments are exciting to see from the outside – but once a year a whole lot of monuments opens up, and shows what is behind those doors! The European Heritage Days offer everybody the opportunity to get to know more about the monuments throughout Europe – many monument owners cooperate by voluntarily opening their buildings […]
Wikimedians team up to make European Cultural Heritage Accessible to the World Volunteers from 16 European Countries Have Uploaded 15,000 Images and Counting Wikimedians from 16 European countries announced the first-ever Pan-European Wiki Loves Monuments contest, a photography contest, running throughout the month of September, focused on capturing and sharing images of important monuments and […]