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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 […]
The Germany jury has published the top-100 winning pictures of the German competition a little while ago. While the broader selection gives a very thorough image of the German cultural heritage, it is clear that in the jury has clearly chosen to send the big pictures that represent Germany’s rich history – mostly castles and […]
India is not only large, but has a quite federative system of cultural heritage organizations, so the WLM organizers in India concentrated on the monuments of “national & international importance“, provided by the Archaeological Survey of India. That said, it was not very probable that all interested people found their “monument around the corner“ to […]
Organized for the second time and in close collaboration with many cultural partners such as the Bundesdenkmalamt, Wiki Loves Monuments was once again a grand success in Austria. With more than 10,000 submissions submitted by almost 300 people, the jury had the hard task to select the winners, and came up with the images below! […]
The organizers in Italy had to come a long way – but it was definitely worth it. While the jury has identified many winning pictures in different categories, you will find below the 10 nominations it has made to the international jury. A great selection of Italian heritage. Probably it is good to realize how […]
The jury of Chile has already announced the winning pictures of their national competition, and managed to include a wide variety of cultural heritage in their selection. More than 4,000 images were submitted by 300+ people. While the first prize winner in the national competition shows a monument in decay – an almost anonymous room […]
After having a look at France and Serbia and while waiting for some more finalists from Asian countries, I jump over again to the American continent to have a look at the US finalists. For a European person, the winner images present a diverse view on very „American“ motifs. From National Parks to technical achievements, […]
Although all national jury decisions have to be complete by today to let the international jury do their job, several countries decided to keep the results under embargo and organize an award ceremony later to publish the national winners. Serbia, the next country of our world finalists tour, decided for a happy medium: The 10 […]
After our trip to Ghana it’s time to come back to Europe to check out the winner images of France. France has a large community and an experienced chapter, and it participated in Wiki Loves Monuments the second time already. However, as we can see from the statistics, France is still far from bored about […]
I’m happy to arrive in Ghana, the first African country of our virtual trip around the world of Wiki Loves Monuments. Only some hours ago the enthusiastic Rexford of Wikimedia Ghana announced the finalists of his country. The first place image stands out from the other images with castles and forts, as it shows the […]
Maybe it’s a cliché, but after the snowy Canada, we definitely would like to present the winners of a more southernly country. Let’s go to Argentina! Wikimedia Argentina and Wikimedia Ibercoop successfully cooperated to organize Wiki Loves Monuments in this country. They organized a launch event at the University of La Plata at September 3rd […]