International photo contest of nature protected areas
Wiki Loves Earth, a competition where participants take photographs of protected natural areas and upload their photos to Wikimedia Commons, was held internationally for the second time in 2015 with 26 countries. The contest is over, and we are now able to present the international winners. The goal of Wiki Loves Earth is two-fold. First, … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Earth 2015 winners announced”
As almost all of the participating countries have already announced their national winners (you can look at the gallery of nominated photos), so now it’s time to introduce people who will select the winning photos — the international jury! The international jury is composed of nine people this year representing different parts of the world … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Earth 2015 international jury”
Last national finalists should be announced and we are going to know the WLE winner of 2015. Meanwhile take a look at best photos from Bulgaria. Iskar Gorge The Iskar Gorge is a gorge passing through the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria. It connects Sofia and Mezdra. The road and railroad follow the course of the … Continue reading “Top-10 photos of Bulgaria”
We are glad to inform that national part of the WLE 2015 has ended on 1 July. International team of Wiki Loves Earth wants to thank to all national organizers of the contest and to active participants and photographers. You rocked it. This year contest was international with 26 countries participating from four different continents – … Continue reading “National part of the contest is officially closed”
On 1st May 2015 the Wikimedia community with the help of its Ukrainian and Polish Chapters and volunteers is starting an international photo contest with a natural heritage theme, Wiki Loves Earth 2015. This is the third year of the competition. In 2013, Ukraine was the only participant, last year there were 16 countries in … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Earth 2015 is coming soon!”
Wiki Loves Earth, a photo contest of natural monuments, became international for the first time in 2014 and was held in 16 countries. The contest is over now, and after the careful evaluation the international jury is happy to announce the winners Wiki Loves Earth is a photo contest of natural monuments, where participants picture … Continue reading “Wiki Loves Earth 2014 winners announced”
Today we have only 12 countries that started «Wiki Loves Earth» 2014. Unfortunately, Greece isn’t in this list now, but we hope they will be there soon. Ukraine is in the first place with 1996 photos. Austria has 1899 photos. The third place has 1885 photos. Here’re Spain&Andorra. The other countries are in the following order: … Continue reading “Contest’s statistics”
We have the first statistics of uploaded photos. The largest number of them is in Austria – 1117. Andorra&Spain ranks second place with 1003 photos. And Macedonia ranks the third position with 528 photos. Then we see: 4. Ukraine with 428 photos 5. Germany with 379 pictures 6. Armenia and 214 photos 7. 84 photos in Azerbaijan 8. 69 in Brazil The other … Continue reading “Contest’s progress”
“Wiki Loves Earth” 2013 is over today at 0:00:00 Kyiv time with 11736 photos uploaded from April 15 to May 15 by 365 contestants. About 100 000 internet users visited Ukrainain contest site. Among various Wiki Loves… contests held by different Wikimedia Chapters (Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Pride, Wiki Loves Sound, Wiki Loves Libraries etc.) only the Monuments contest became international for … Continue reading “Contest is over. First summary”
Wiki Loves Earth is an annual international photo contest of natural monuments, where participants take pictures of protected areas and upload their photos to Wikimedia Commons. The goal of the project is, on one hand, to picture under a free license as many natural monuments and protected areas as possible, on the other hand, to … Continue reading “History and Statistics”