Wiki Loves Monuments

Saint John Church of Sohrol, a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar, Iran by Farzin Izaddoust dar, CC BY-SA 4.0

Saint John Church of Sohrol, a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar, Iran by Farzin Izaddoust dar, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 Has Started

on Aug 31, 2014

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 photographers alike to capture images of the world’s historic monuments.

These photos are then shared with the world under free licences via Wikimedia Commons, a free media repository which amongst other things provides most of the images for Wikipedia.

Author

  • Deror Lin

    Deror was member of the international team in 2014. More information available here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014/Who%27s_who

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