The Wiki Loves Monuments International winners have been announced. It's
good to see that three of the top 10 places were entrants in the UK contest.
Many congratulations to the UK entrants Fuzzypiggy (6th and 7th in the
international awards) and RevDave (8th).
Michael
*From:* Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
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*Date:* 22 December 2014 23:01
*To:* Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
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*Subject:* [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Winners Announced in World’s
Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments
FYI. We just posted the announcement. You are welcome to share locally
with your press contacts (especially the countries on the first places!)
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This press release is also available online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Winners_Announced_in_Wo…
Winners Announced in World’s Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments
*International jury selects top 10 photos from more than 321,000
worldwide. Over the four past years, more than 1.1 million images have
been submitted to the contest.*
The international jury for Wiki Loves Monuments 2014
<http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/>announced today the 10 winning
photographs from the world’s largest photo contest, which ran from
September 1 - 30 this year. More than 9,000 photographers uploaded
over 321,000 freely-licensed photographs of historic buildings,
monuments and cultural heritage sites in 41 countries to Wikimedia
Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>for use on
Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects.
This year, the grand-prize winning photograph is an image of theHoly
Mountains Monastery
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Mountains_Lavra>, a complex of
architectural monuments of national significance in Sviatohirsk,
Ukraine, taken byKonstantin Brizhnichenko
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brizhnichenko>. The first
written mention of the monastery was in 1526. In 1624, the monastery
was officially recognized as the Sviatohirsk Uspensky Monastery.
Before World War I, the monastery was inhabited by approximately 600
monks. During the 1930s, it was destroyed by the Soviets, along with
other numerous religious sites throughout the Soviet Union. Today, the
monastery community consists of more than 100 people, a number that
increases each year.
(Photo
link:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg)
The winner will receive flight and accommodations in Mexico to attend
Wikimania, the international conference of the Wikimedia movement, to
be held in July 2015 in Mexico City.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Wiki Loves Monuments
is the world’s largest public photo competition. In it, people are
asked to take pictures of monuments from participating countries and
to upload them to Wikimedia Commons, enabling the photos to be used to
illustrate Wikipedia in articles about these monuments and other subjects.
“With over one million free images of heritage sites across the world,
Wiki Loves Monuments is one of the world’s most important history
projects today,” says Deror Lin, the international coordinator of the
competition. “Year after year, volunteers document hundreds of
thousands of heritage sites across the world and upload the images to
the internet under a free license for the benefit of the current
andnext generations. These people display the splendor of creativity
and culture in their countries.”
The competition is organized in 41 participating countries, each
focusing on their national monuments and with their own national
prizes. This year, every participating country submitted 10
nominations to the international jury who chose the winning pictures
for the competition. A number of countries participated in the
competition for the first time, including: Albania, Kosovo, Iraq,
Ireland, Lebanon, Macedonia, Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority.
The contest was first organized in 2010 in the Netherlands and
resulted in more than 12,500 pictures of Dutch monuments. Over the
past four years more than 1.1 million images have been submitted to
the contest.
*2014 Wiki Loves Monuments Winners:*
*
1st Place - the Holy Mountains Monastery, Sviatohirsk, Ukraine by
Konstantin Brizhnichenko -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg>
*
2nd Place - Gare du Nord in Paris, France, by MrsEllacott (his
image ranked 7thin the French national competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gare_du_Nord_December_2013.jpg
*
3rd Place - Jøvik and Great Cormorants near Ullsfjorden, Troms,
Tromsø, Norway by Siri Uldal (7th place in Norway’s national
competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jøvik_handelssted_04.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J%C3%B8vik_handelssted_04.jpg>
*
4th Place - Alte Sennalpe Batzen (literally: Old Dairy Mountain
Pasture Batzen) at Bregenzer Forest in Schröcken, Vorarlberg,
Austria by Böhringer Friedrich (9th Place in the Austrian national
competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alte_Batzenalpe_2014_Interior_06.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alte_Batzenalpe_2014_Interior_06.jpg>
*
5th Place - Montfort Castle at Sunrise, Israel, by Eran Feldman
(1st Place in the Israeli national competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:מבצר_מונפורט_בזריחה.JPG
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%A6%D7%A8_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%91%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%97%D7%94.JPG>
*
6th Place - St Michael’s Mount, Marazion, Cornwall, UK by
Fuzzypiggy (1st Place in the UK competition)
-https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael's_Mount_II5302_x_2982.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael%27s_Mount_II5302_x_2982.jpg>
*
7th Place - Tower Bridge at Dawn, UK by Fuzzypiggy (3rd Place in
the UK competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_Bridge_at_Dawn.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_Bridge_at_Dawn.jpg>
*
8th Place - Victorian Valves at Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK by:
RevDave (8th Place in the UK competition) -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorian_Valves.jpg
*
9th Place - Interior of the Romea Theatre, Murcia, Spain by: Pedro
J Pacheco -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teatro_Romea_Interior.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teatro_Romea_Interior.jpg>
*
10 Place - View of the Interior of St. Peter's Church, Teruel,
Spain. by: Diego Delso -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Pedro,_Teruel,_Españ…
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Pedro,_Teruel,_Espa%C3%B1a,_2014-01-10,_DD_11-12_HDR.JPG>
*For more information: *
*Itzik Edri, Spokesperson for the international jury - +972-54-5878078
<tel:%2B972-54-5878078>, itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il
<mailto:itzik@wikimedia.org.il>*
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