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As Wiki Loves Monuments goes global this year, and there are more and more countries joining the competition, the international facilitating group is trying to help new participants to kick-start preparations in their countries. Following Lodewijk’s successful visit to the United Kingdom in February, Tomasz visited Ukraine and the Czech Republic on the weekend of […]
„Augmented reality is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data“ „Layar is a Dutch company [that has] created a mobile browser called Layar. The browser allows users to find various items based upon augmented reality […]
Besides the already known prizes for the best pictures in the several categories, we also announced a prize for the best monument video. Open Images has generously provided a Unlimited Spotify account for 20 months for the best video. The winner of this prize is this French video about an old wallpaper printing machine (built […]
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo contest around cultural heritage monuments in September. Starting from the Netherlands in 2010 and organized on a European level in 2011, we go global in 2012! Everybody can participate and improve Wikipedia in their local and regional neigbourhood. Cultural heritage is everywhere around you, you just need to […]
After almost a year of preparations we’re proud to announce the winner of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011. Wiki Loves Monuments started in 2010 as a photo competition in one country (Netherlands) and turned into a European competition in 2011. 18 countries participated in the organization and over 165.000 photos were contributed by over 5000 (mostly […]
Europeana just announced that the picture by Csaba Attila Kontar of the interior of the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, Hungary has won the Special Europeana Prize for Art Nouveau in Wiki Loves Monuments. A virtual exhibition with the top images from the Art Nouveau category in the Wiki Loves Monuments competition will be […]
The jury for the special award offered by the Euroregion Pyrenees Mediterranean has decidedthe winner from best photos submitted of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. Ten photos were selected with honourable mentions: 3 from Catalonia, 5 from Languedoc-Roussillon and 2 from Midi-Pyrénées. Among castles and churches, the winner is a typical Mediterranean seaside […]
Photos submitted of Catalonia have different possibilities of awards at different levels. Besides the common European and Spanish levels, they have entered in the special award for Pyrenees-Mediterranean, as one of the four constituent regions, and they opt to two local prices offered by two Catalan institutions. As a result, the participation in Catalonia has […]
3 112 images were uploaded by 71 participants for the Estonian Wiki Loves Monuments contest. The Estonian jury presented their winners at November 12th. Ten pictures will participate in European contest. And eleven pictures will travel across Estonia as part of photo exhibition in public libraries. Congratulations to the winners!
On November 1st the jury announced the results for Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain. It was not an easy decision since almost 18,000 images from all around the country had been submitted for the contest, an extraordinary success! It makes us especially happy that so many new users took part in the contest. Thanks to […]
More than 25.000 images were uploaded for the French contest of Wiki Loves Monuments. Today the jury announced the results for France, and it can be taken as a sign for our international community and contest structure, a good karma for the traditional Franco-German Friendship or just as “fun fact” that the winning image was […]
At the annual Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland the winners for Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 in the Netherlands were announced. No windmills or tulips, but it is something wooden: A wooden house on the island Marken. This is the second time we organized Wiki Loves Monuments in the Netherlands. Last year we got an amazing number of […]