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And we’re off! Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 has started again: national teams from 40 countries around the world will be organizing the annual photo competition, which is focused on getting more photographs of built heritage monuments. After the national competitions, the organisors will submit the top 10 images from their country to the international competition […]
Over the years, Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) has constantly worked towards documenting and disseminating diverse cultural places and histories through photographs. Annually hosted by over 50 countries across the world, the competition aims to encourage participation in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, while fostering an important need for digital documentation of built heritage sites in […]
From the lush green hills of the historical site San Andrés, El Salvador, to the overwhelming waterfalls in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, to the capturing temple of David in Jerusalem, Israel. Where local restrictions would allow, people have gone out again to capture their wonderful surroundings and share them with the world through the […]
We, the Jurors of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021, have recently completed the jury process. The international team is in the process of finalizing the communications, and we as the 2021 jury feel it pertinent to point out a few elements, for clarity and transparency. Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photographic competition, born and developed […]
The Wiki Loves Monuments team is very excited to be able to share with you the first results of the national juries of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021. This year was the tenth year for Wiki Loves Monuments as an international competition, and we had people from 37 countries participating in our photo competition for built […]
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 […]