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The contest has been finished for a while, but we know that many of our followed still would like to see a little more of what beauty has been submitted in the different countries. That is why we give today a bit of extra attention to the top-10 of the Israeli 2012 contest! Israel is […]
The winning pictures tour of Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 arrived to Panama on March 5th, 2013. The Technological University of Panama hosted an opening ceremony with local winners, participants, students, professors and special guests.
10 very diverse images have been selected as the Colombian nominees for the international Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 finale. But one thing all images have in common: they offer a special perspective on the monument. Churches, towers and castles: there are many ways to look at them and illustrate. Sometimes the perspective is all in […]
Andorra was the smallest country participating in the 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments competition, but that doesn’t mean that there are no beautiful places to photograph! Being located in the Pyrenees mountain chain between Spain and France, photos of Andorran heritage are almost guaranteed to offer a stunning view in the background. In the 2011 competition […]
In the past year, we’ve often had the question “why are you doing this?”. Many people outside the Wikimedia movement assume at first that this must be a professional job for me, as one of the organizers – and when you explain that we’re doing this almost fully by volunteers, and hundreds of them, people […]
We are happy to announce that the results of the public vote for the GLAM category prize organised by Europeana on Facebook that we wrote about last month are finally known! Out of 2,300 nominations from the 35 countries participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, the winner that was chosen by Europeana’s friends on Facebook is this […]
In our original announcement about the winning pictures of the 2012 competition that was also posted on the official blog of the Wikimedia Foundation and reposted by several media from around the world, including BBC News, we wrote that we were not able to reach Pranav Singh, the author of the winning Wiki Loves Monuments […]
While the international jury results have been published, it might still be worth while to look into the national jury decisions still! Therefore today a blog post about the Russian winners. Last year only pictures from St.Petersburg could participate, this year the scope has been extended to a large part of the country. Text by […]
We are happy to announce the winning pictures of Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! A little less than a year ago, volunteers from all over the world started working on the 2012 edition of Wiki Loves Monuments – the largest photo competition in the world. More than 350,000 images have been submitted by over 15,000 people […]
As mentioned in a previous post, Europeana, an Internet portal gathering over 10 million books, paintings, films and museum objects digitalised in the member states of the European Union who is also one of our partners this year, is sponsoring an award in a special category for pictures depicting GLAM monuments — that is, photographs […]
The jury of Slovakia has spoken, and has selected 9 pictures of Slovakian heritage to be submitted to the international jury. Castles and religious heritage (monasteries, churches, a synagogue) play clearly an important role in the view of the Slovakian participants. The pictures represent the nine higest ranked images, but are not ranked yet amongst […]