Stories
Wiki Loves Monuments in South Africa took off with a bang some days ago, with a grand opening in Cape Town, the “Mother City”. Wiki Loves Monuments went global in 2012, and that doesn’t just include the Western world. The competition includes several African countries: Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. While preparing for the South […]
(the below blog post was published by Spider on his own blog on August 31) September is about to start in a few minutes. It is going to be a busy month: several important conference deadlines, speaking at Software Freedom Day, remotely participating in SLE workshops, traveling to MoDELS, putting together the programme of WCN, being on “holidays in a broad sense” […]
After months of preparations involving tens of volunteers from all around the globe, we are proud to announce that Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 has finally started! It all began at 16:00 UTC (that is 18:00 CEST in Western Europe and noon in New York), when the Philippines became the first country to join the competition. […]
The first prize of the international finale of Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 is known! We have tried hard to find a prize that would be equally interesting to people from all countries. Besides the eternal glory and the national prize that the finalist may have won, he or she will get a scholarship to visit […]
Yesterday we finished off printing, stamping and putting together 348 envelopes about Wiki Loves Monuments, which are to be sent to schools, photo societies and tourist offices in Sweden. We’re suggesting schools to have their own contest whilst learning about the cultural heritage sites present in Sweden. We’re also emailing scouting groups and university societies to increase […]
Wiki Loves Monuments has received a Special Mention of the Jury at the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards. As some may know, after the 2011 contest, we have nominated Wiki Loves Monuments for the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards. These prizes, jointly presented by the European Commission […]
Wiki Loves Monuments was very successful in the number of submissions – more than 168,000. But the number of pictures was not the only goal articulated by the organizers – maybe even more important was the goal of making more people familiar with the concept of contributing content to Wikipedia. Therefore, it was interesting to […]
Today the cultural heritage project from Austria was awarded with the Zedler prize – the award for the best Open Knowledge project of 2011. In the context of Wiki Loves Monuments, the Austrian community managed to organize an outstanding cooperation with the Bundesdenkmalamt (BDA), their national heritage authority, that lead to well-structured and maintainable monuments […]
Good news from another contest: The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year is a competition (first run in 2006) that aims to identify the best freely-licensed images from those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status. The 2011 results are published now and show us a variety of excellent images from the […]
As some of you may remember, it was impossible to organize Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy last year, because of a law that assigns extra copyright on monumental buildings to the government – even if all regular copyright has expired. This means basically that you are not allowed to walk around in Italy, take a […]
In April and May 2012 the Narva Museum‘s Art Gallery in Estonia showed an exhibition of photographs from the Wiki Loves Monuments contest in Estonia and St. Petersburg. The exhibition was jointly organized by Wikimedia Estonia and Wikimedia Russia; it presented the winners and the regional finalists of the competition Wiki loves monuments 2011, including photos […]
With an increasing number of participating countries for Wiki Loves Monuments this year (30 countries indicated their interest and counting!) we have an international coordination team of four Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 organizers. However, even with four volunteers we wouldn’t be able to keep a proper overview and give the countries the attention they deserve. […]