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International photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 has officially ended! We are proud to present you 14 winning pictures from all over the world. As you know, Wiki Loves Monuments has two noble missions: to draw wide attention to [preserving of] cultural heritage monuments and fill Wikimedia Commons with their free images, ready to use. […]
With only a few days left in August, it is time to get your cameras, and make some amazing photos of your cultural heritage again! For 31 countries the competition has been prepared to take off in the coming days (please note in a few countries, different dates are being used), and you can once […]
The international jury for Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 announced today the 10 winning photographs from the world’s largest photo contest, which ran from September 1–30 this year. More than 9,000 photographers uploaded over 321,000 freely-licensed photographs of historic buildings, monuments and cultural heritage sites in 41 countries (39 teams) to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other free […]
One Million images uploaded so far to the world’s largest photo contest – Wiki Loves Monuments. So far, 100100 images under a free license from thirty-seven countries were uploaded and cumulative of 1,000,000 since the the beginning of the contest, fourth years ago. Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 is the world’s largest photo contest, aim to […]
It has been two weeks since the launch of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 photography competition and it’s time for a short update on where we are right now. So far, more than 90,000 photographs have been uploaded, by more than 3,100 participants in 36 countries. Many photos have been submitted by users from long-time […]
Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 Has Started – Good Luck to all participants and all new participating countries. Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual event which takes place across the globe every September, for the past five years. The competition is designed to bring together people who value their local historic environment with amateur and professional […]
With the 2013 Wiki Loves Monuments contest behind us, we are pleased to present an interview with Jacek Halicki, a volunteer Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons contributor whose involvement with the Wikimedia world first started during the 2012 edition of our competition.
Wiki Loves Monuments is over. And after a photo competition, there should be a winner. Through the month September, photos were uploaded of monuments in more than 50 countries and in October national juries decided which pictures were the best for each of the 51 competitions. They submitted up to 10 pictures to the international […]
We are happy to announce the prize winners for the Special Award for Asia contest! With the support of Guiddoo, the personalized tour guide by a group (based in Asia) we were able to set up this special prize category to stimulate participation in those countries – the prizes are awarded for the best picture from […]
We are happy to announce the prize winners for the Special Award for Arabic speaking countries! With the support of Guiddoo, the personalized tour guide, we were able to set up this special prize category to stimulate participation in those countries – the prizes are awarded for the best picture from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Syria or […]
Europeana has announced the winning picture of the Special Award for the best photo of a First World War-related photo. Europeana has been an official partner of the Wiki Loves Monuments contest since 2011, sponsoring each year a special category award. First, it was Art Nouveau (2011) and in 2012 it was GLAM (galleries, libraries, […]
Wouldn’t anyone like to see what the seven wonders of the ancient world looked like exactly, visit the Alexandria library, experience cultural heritage. Unfortunately that is not possible for many cultural heritage objects because, in time, they have been destroyed and we don’t have access to a time machine to visit them ourselves. However, two […]