International photo contest of nature protected areas
By Ivana Guslarević, Wikimedia Serbia This year’s Wiki Loves Earth contest in Serbia broke all records since the beginning of its organization in 2014. Over the course of May, 142 participants uploaded 1801 photos of 116 protected areas in Serbia. 115 of the contestants were new participants. Unfortunately, 196 photos had to be disqualified because … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Serbia”
This year, “Wikimedians of Bulgaria” User Group participates for the second time with a local edition of the photo contest for environmentally protected territories, “Wiki Loves Earth 2016 Bulgaria“. And one of the ten winners in the national stage of the competition will be printed as an official postage stamp of the Republic of Bulgaria. … Continue reading “The first WLE postage stamp depicts a griffon vulture in Bulgaria”
This year Moldova had the Wiki Loves Earth organized for the first time. During a span of one month, amateur and professional photographers from Moldova had the chance to upload their photos of natural heritage monuments of the country, in the same time contributing to the scarce free media collection of Moldovan nature online. During … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Earth 2016 completed successfully in Moldova”
Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Nepal was organized by Maithili Wikimedians and lasted for 45 days, it began on 1 May and finished on 15 June, 2016. We are proud to present you its glorious results. In the entire competition of Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Nepal, 271 user participated and uploaded their images of the natural heritage sites … Continue reading “Meet winners of Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in Nepal”
On May 1, 2016 the Wikimedia community is starting an international photo contest with a natural heritage theme, Wiki Loves Earth 2016. Wiki Loves Earth is organized through numerous national contests, coordinated by local volunteers. This is the fourth year of the competition. In 2015 there were 19 countries in the contest and this year it encompasses Algeria, … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Earth 2016 captures the nature!”
Bulgarian national team continues to acquaint us with their most active users. We asked Spas to shortly present himself in a couple of sentences, and here is what he said: I am interested in geography and history, love travelling and taking pictures. I’ve been editing Wikipedia since the beginning of 2008, and for the last two or … Continue reading “WLE-2015 active users – Spas from Bulgaria”
The 9th edition of Wiki Loves Earth photo contest finished in September, and we have received amazing winning photos from 34 countries and territories. While the organizing team is working to determine international winners, here is an overview of our local winners (we highlight one of the winners per country, they don’t necessarily represent the … Continue reading “Take a virtual world tour with Wiki Loves Earth 2021 local winners”
By the Spanish Wiki Loves Earth Team Wiki Loves Earth 2019 is calling. This will be the 5th edition of the contest in Spain, and it is a great moment to celebrate our wiki-photographer-earth-lover community. To do so, we are sharing an interview with María Bolado, winner of the WLE in Spain 2017 edition, and … Continue reading “Raising awareness of nature’s fragility: A perspective of Spanish Wiki Loves Earth winners”
Our 2018 winner comes from Cape Stolbchaty, the cape at east shore of Kunashir Island1 in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia which is famous for its columnar basalt formations. Photo by Ekaterina Vasyagina (www.PhotoJourneys.ru), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. “As the sky is all filled with soft amethyst glow, the sunset waves goodbye to stupendously beauteous and resplendent basalt formation of Cape Stolbchaty leaving Vermilion orange sunset” From … Continue reading “Best pictures of Wiki Loves Earth 2018 announced”
Wiki Loves Earth 2018 international jury From Germany to South Africa and from Brazil to India, the international jury represents the geographic diversity of Wiki Loves Earth. They have a variety of backgrounds: some of them are professional environmentalists, while others are passionate photographers. There is one thing they have in common: their enthusiasm to … Continue reading “Meet the 2018 international jury”