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It is time for Wiki Loves Monuments again, starting on 1 September! Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual photo competition celebrating built cultural heritage. It is organized by volunteers around the world, and up to the top ten photographs from each country are selected for an international finale. These may be regular sights for some […]
Out of more than 230,000 submissions from nearly 7,700 participants, fifteen winning images were announced today in the eleventh annual Wiki Loves Monuments photography contest. Picture above: Thirteenth place winner of the 2020 Wiki Loves Monuments competition. Photo by Teodoro Corbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Few people were able to travel in 2020, but Wiki Loves Monuments has some […]
Also in complicated times like 2020, we will organize Wiki Loves Monuments – albeit in a slightly modified form. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the amount of in-person activities has been decreased to a minimum, and most countries will not organize any in-person activities (photo walks, lectures, workshops etc) at all. However, as far as […]
These are the winning pictures of the international finale of Wiki Loves Monuments! After another exciting edition, the jury completed its deliberations in December 2019, and we officially announced the winners before. The winning pictures were selected from over 400 nominees from 48 participating national competitions. For a complete overview of all nominees, winners and […]
Wikimedia volunteers around the world started the 10th edition of Wiki Loves Monuments on September 1st, 2019. This is the 10th edition of WLM, a remarkable achievement for a competition that has garnered the status of “the world’s largest open photography contest” in Guinness World Records. We are excited and look forward to running another […]
The European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018 has come to an end and has shown us many different ways of how culture and different aspects of European culture are central to all our lives and how cultural heritage belongs to all of us. Operating with the slogan “Sharing Heritage”, Wikimedia Deutschland has participated in […]
The top fifteen images from Wiki Loves Monuments contain a treasure trove of the cultural heritage we all share. Alireza Akhlaghi had plenty of time inside the famed Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque to capture the photo that leads this blog post. Why? He walked in at exactly noon, just as the building was about to close […]
WLM Ukraine team is proud to have held the contest for the seventh time. 21 thousand pictures were received and are ready to be used in Wikipedia, the most famous encyclopedia in the world. Contest participants took pictures of almost 10 thousand cultural monuments, of which more than 1400 objects previously had no pictures. More […]
Between September 5 (۱۵ شهریور) and October 7 (۱۵ مهر) of 2018, close to 1300 people participated in Wiki Loves Monuments in Iran. The local contest, now in its fourth year, has been a force to help enrich Wikipedia with photos of more than 26,000 nationally registered monuments of Iran. Today, we share with you […]
In 2016 Nigeria participated in Wiki Loves Monuments for the first time. The local organizing team decided to arrange field trips for participants to visit and document monuments in Nigeria. One of these monuments was Ilojo Bar aka Olaiya House or Casa do Fernandez. Little did they know that their visit would be the last time they would […]
The main goal of Wiki Loves Monuments is to achieve visual documentation of monuments from around the world on Wikipedia. Monument documentation through Wiki Loves Monuments is not only useful for people to get to know cultural heritage in different regions but also it can prove to be one of the few publicly available and […]
If we were to write a book about the experience of Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy, one of the main characters would be Francesco Bini, known to many with his username on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, Sailko. Over 20% of the images collected in the first edition of the competition in Italy were uploaded on […]