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Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 will be the 15th edition of the photograph competition, with many returning and 2 new countries (Cyprus and Libya) joining the annual competition. The international competition runs between 1 September until 31 October 2024, and is organized in the countries listed on this page. The competition only has few rules for […]
This is a guest blog by Yamen Bousrih from the Wiki World Heritage UG During the latest edition of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the Wiki World Heritage User Group (WWH) had the pleasure of collaborating with the WLM international organizing team to offer a special prize for the best photo featuring a UNESCO World Heritage-listed […]
After previously announcing the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 we have the pleasure to also present the winning pictures of the special awards of 2023! In 2023 almost 220.000 images have been contributed by more than 4.700 photographers in 46 national contests. From this vast collection of pictures documenting monuments and world heritage around […]
Wiki Loves Monuments has the pleasure to present the winning pictures of the international finale of the photo contest 2023! The jury – thank you to all who took part in it! – completed its deliberations in February 2024, and we officially announced the winners through out social media channels today. In 2023 almost 220.000 […]
There is a building up of excitement as we approach the highly anticipated announcement of the winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2023! Right from its inception in 2010, the Wiki Loves Monuments competition has recorded an incredible array of submissions from photographers around the world, and towards the winners’ announcement ceremony, the anticipation is […]
As the national juries have determined their winners, it is time to select the international winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2023. As every year, this decision is made by the members of the International Jury. The 2023 edition of the Wiki Loves Monuments International Jury is made up of a 10-person team and has Ruben Ojeda […]
These are the winning pictures of the international finale of Wiki Loves Monuments! After another exciting edition, the jury completed its deliberations in February 2023, and we officially announced the winners through out social media channels today. In 2022, from over 150.000 entries, 337 pictures were selected by the juries of the 36 national competitions […]
This week the last upload campaigns for Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 have come to a close. While we wait for the teams and their juries to decide on their national winners, lets us take a moment to share with you the final report of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion research that was conducted by researcher […]
This is a guest blog by Axel Petterson from Wikimedia Sweden. Do you have a bunch of monuments ready to use in a “Wiki Loves” competition? Great! You have organized them in some kind of list already? Even better! But what does it take to go from that to getting the list to be structured […]
This blog was contributed by Wiki Movimento Brasil Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo contest organized by the Wikimedia community annually. In Brazil, the contest has been taking place since 2015 and since 2019 it has been organized by the user group Wiki Movimento Brasil. Until 2018, there were around 1,500 participating monuments in […]
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 […]