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Wiki Loves Monuments Aruba 2020
Continued from Page 31 The participant must have an activated email dia this September. Wikimedia is the movement
address on Wikimedia Commons. No email ad- behind Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – a
Every submission should be: dress may result in your submissions being dis- global collaboration authored by volunteers.
- Self-taken and self-uploaded; qualified. This can be created in just a few min- Cultural heritage is an important part of the
- Uploaded in September 2020; utes. knowledge Wikipedia collects and dissemi-
- Freely licensed; nates. Everybody can contribute images as well
- Contain an identified monument; Wiki Loves Monuments as write articles. An image is worth a thousand
- Nominated through a national contest Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo words, in every language at once and local en-
Next to that, there is a practical requirement: contest for monuments, organized by Wikime- thusiasts can (re)discover the cultural, historical,
or scientific significance of their neighborhood.
In more than 40 countries all over the world, a
national contest will be organized with their na-
tional monuments, partners, rules, events and
winners. Every national contest will be able to
nominate some of their winning pictures for the
international contest. These nominated pictures
will be judged by the international jury, which
will then award extra prizes to the best images
from all participating countries.
The contest is inspired by the successful 2010 pi-
lot in the Netherlands, which resulted in 12,500
freely licensed images of monuments that can
now be used in Wikipedia and by anybody for
any purpose. Since then, the project helped to
collect information on 1,5 million monuments
from 76 national competitions − with more than
1,7 million pictures submitted by over 60,000
participants, adding to the sum of all human
knowledge gathered on Wikipedia.
Any support is welcome: from uploading a sin-
gle image, spreading the word about the con-
test, to becoming a partner or sponsor.q
