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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 […]
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 […]