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The Andorran-Catalan jury has decided about the results of Andorra and the special local prizes for Catalonia. The final winners will be announced next 10th November at Palau Moja in Barcelona, a registered monument itself. Worth mentioning that more than a half of the finalists, both in Andorra and Catalonia, are photos submitted in Flickr […]
In “Wikipedia Loves Petersburg” competition there were 13 prizes total in various nominations. The contest was intent to give an illustrative material for encyclopedical project «Wikipedia», as well as to draw attention to architectural heritage of St. Petersburg protection. 10 winners that will represent Russia in all-European part of the competition were selected from more […]
Hungary was late to join the international Wiki Loves Monuments contest, but this hasn’t stopped the contestants in submitting more than 2000 photos in just over ten days (due to the initial delay, the national round of the contest was open until 21 October, and 3000 more pictures were received after the European contest was […]
From the large number of submitted images, the Romanian jury made a short selection of 284 finalists and then selected the 10 winners, based on 3 criteria: technical merit, originality and usefulness for Wikipedia. Here are our winners:
“Every country has a windmill under its top 10 – people love windmills“, one of our (of course, Dutch) team members joked some days ago. Well, Denmark proved this joke and broke the records with three windmills in their top 10 images for Wiki Loves Monuments! Today the Danish jury presented their winners. The selected […]
At Sunday evening the jury announced the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments in Germany, along with the 100 best images in the German contest. Congratulations go to User:Memorino for the image of the Anhäuser Mauer, the remains of an eremitic monastery in South Germany. We are especially happy about the many, many new users who […]
João Martinho, with a photo of the Carmo Church in Lisbon was the Portuguese winner of Wiki Loves Monuments. The framework, focus, lighting, resolution, absence of distortion and manipulation and composition were the reasons that convinced the jury, consisting of representatives from the Pousadas de Portugal, Fotosport, IGESPAR, Sintra Town Hall and two Wikimedians who […]
The Polish Wiki Loves Monuments jury gathered on Saturday, October 15, to decide about the results of the Polish edition of the contest. The meeting and an e-mail voting that followed ended on today, so we’re now proud to announce the results. From over 16,700 photos uploaded by Polish users we have chosen 134 pictures […]
After a tough jury work, where more than 5000 pictures has been evaluated back and forth against each other, the contest has now come to an end. It has been a joyfull work and it is an incredible amount of good pictures that now can be used on Wikipedia. All the pictures that has been […]
One day, 9000 monuments: no chance? The Cologne Wikipedia crowd and our sponsor Pausanio called Cologne citizens to action and invited them to a „Wiki takes Cologne” day on Sunday from 10-17 h. A clear blue sky sent us the first photographers at 9:45, and over the whole day people – among them a significant number of […]
Wiki Loves Monuments has a range of prizes at different levels: local, national or European. The Euroregion Pyrenees-Mediterranean proposes another different possibility: a cross-border prize for the best photo of the euroregion formed by Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées; two Spanish regions and two French ones. Euroregions are cooperation structures between contiguous territories located in different European countries. The […]
It’s been almost ten days since Wiki Loves Monuments started and we’re about to reach 27,000 uploads. Germany, the first country with more than 4,000 submitted pictures, is now steady the country with the most uploads. Among the most active uploaders is a user called Hippie Bug93 who despite being new to the Wikimedia projects […]