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In 2013, Puebla became the second-most active city in Mexico (behind Mexico City) as measured by activities organized by Wikimedia Mexico, the official Wikimedia chapter in the country. In nine months, the community has promoted three edit-a-thons in Puebla (the most recent held on August 31) and has initiated a pilot educational program at a university. Of course, Wiki […]
After a month of enthusiast uploading, the last day of the 2013 edition of Wiki Loves Monuments is there – in a few Asian countries the contest even already (almost) ended. More than 10,000 people have already uploaded hundreds of thousands of pictures of monuments in more than 50 countries. You can still upload pictures […]
Bastien Guerry has developed a map tool to find monuments more easily, if they have coordinates available (this is not the case in all countries). In this blog post he introduces his tool and explains. (LG) I know the Wiki Loves Monuments contest since its early days, and I have always been enthusiastic about it. It […]
With only a few days left to upload your pictures in most countries (except Israel), we just received the 250,000th upload! Compared with last year, we received slightly more uploads from slightly less people, but with roughly four days to go, we would need a bit more than 100,000 photos to break our own world […]
Two weeks in the competition, it is about time to give a short update on where we’re at with Wiki Loves Monuments this year. Already, more than 120,000 images have been uploaded by 4,700 people in 51 countries. Many photos have been submitted by ‘superuploaders’ that submit large amounts of photos per person (often Wikimedians […]
Wiki Loves Monuments kicked off in its fourth year! Since September 1st, more than 50 countries from all over the world are in the race to show the best pictures of their heritage to the world through their participation in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. This year we are very excited to have for the first time Arab speaking countries join: Algeria, Jordan, Tunesia and […]
If you own an Android smartphone, it might just have become much easier for you to participate with Wiki Loves Monuments! By downloading the Wiki Loves Monuments app from the Google Play Store you can find monuments in your neighborhood on the map (if this option is available in your country), photograph them with your […]
Wiki Loves Monuments will also include 85 “Historical Sites and Monuments” on Antarctica in 2013. After expanding to the world last year, we felt one continent in particular was being left out: the most southern and coldest continent on our planet. We thought it was more than fair to share a little bit about this […]
The 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments competition has now officially been recognized as the World’s Largest Photography Competition! As the 2011 competition was already recognized by Guinness World Records previous year, they have now also confirmed that the 2012 competition has broken its own record. With 353,768 photos it was more than double the amount of photos collected by the […]
Europeana will award a special prize for the best participating photograph of a monument related to the First World War in this year’s Wiki Loves Monuments competition. Europeana has been an official partner of the contest since 2011, sponsoring each year a special category award. First, it was Art Nouveau (2011) and in 2012 it […]
We have been organizing Wiki Loves Monuments for three years in a row now, and recently Erik Zachte published some really interesting data regarding how effective Wiki Loves Monuments is in involving more new contributors to Wikimedia projects. In this blog post I will try to dive a little more into those numbers, and paint […]
We’ve changed some things for simpler, more beautiful discovery of the world’s largest photo contest. It’s still a work in progress and we welcome your suggestions in the comments section below. From cleaner typography to a responsive design that adapts to your device, Wiki Loves Monuments is happy to introduce this new look.