On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The first Wiki photo competition (that I'm aware
of) was Wikipedia Takes
Manhattan in Spring 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Spring_20… The
first "big" photo competition was Wiki Loves Art, during june 2009:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons%3AWiki_Loves_Art_Netherlands
We had 45 museums participating back then, resulting in 5500 photographs.
-- Hay