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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 […]
Barely three days going, we welcomed today the 5000th upload for Wiki Loves Monuments! Participation is high throughout Europe, but some countries are doing especially well. France (almost 1000 uploads), Germany (800+) and Poland (750+) are currently the countries with most uploads, closely followed by the Netherlands (550+), Belgium (500+), Spain (700+) and Estonia (400+). Some other […]
After several months of preparation, Wiki Loves Monuments took off this night, and already we passed the 500 submissions! 16 countries are currently participating, all from Portugal to Estonia. You can find a full overview in the right side bar. It is very exciting to see people from all over Europe enthusiastically uploading images from […]
The sky over Europe is clear blue, lenses are polished, and our teams are busy with the last preparations for the contest. From tomorrow on you’ll be able to take part in the first pan-European photo contest of Wikipedians. It’s all European, but it’s very local in the end; photographers, video people, and, most of […]
It’s all local in the end: community projects in Germany With an estimated number of 750,000 monuments, Germany is the country with by far the most monuments participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2011. Unfortunately, due to the federative system — believe it or not — nobody really knows what and where all of these monuments […]
At the moment Wikipedia articles don’t contain a lot of video’s (less than 0,1% of all files on Wikimedia Commons are video files). Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. The platform contains a lot of Dutch newsreel clips. These clips are mirrored […]
With an estimated number of 750,000 monuments, Germany is the country with by far the most monuments participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2011. Unfortunately, due to the federative system – believe it or not – nobody really knows what and where all of these monuments are. While some states have a central government agency, some […]
Europeana is an internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe[1]. Europeana will sponsor one of the main prizes and also a special Art Nouveau prize. Art Nouveau is a style of art popular throughout Europea around 1900. Most […]
Welcome to the Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 website! Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest around monuments in September throughout Europe. Coming September more than 15 countries, from Portugal to Estonia, will organize their national Wiki Loves Monuments contests. During this month long contest, you can submit photos of monuments, which can be uploaded to […]