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Wiki Loves Monuments photo competition returns to Ireland

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 seventh place entry Ross Castle, Co Kerry, by Niall O’Donovan

24 August 2015

The Irish wing of Wiki Loves Monuments, the world’s biggest photography competition, has returned for 2015.

Organised by the Wikimedia Ireland Community, the competition aims to raise awareness of national monuments and create a crowd-sourced bank of photos that will be made free to use for educational purposes.

Last year the Wiki Loves Monuments competition in Ireland attracted a total of 2,015 images by 256 photographers from 271 different monuments.

“After the success of last year, we can’t wait to see what fantastic photos are submitted for this year’s Wiki Loves Monuments competition,” said Rebecca O’Neill, Wikimedia Ireland. “We inspired 256 photographers to get out and photograph their local heritage sites in 2014. As a result 2,015 original images were produced and 323 of these images are currently being used in Wikipedia articles.

“Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 has been expanded, so that photographers can choose from a much wider choice of locations, up from 503 to 970. We’ve also included historic houses and graveyards among the heritage sites that can be photographed.

“The aim of National Heritage Week is to build awareness and education about our heritage thereby encouraging its conservation and preservation. The Wiki Loves Monuments competition does exactly that, with the added bonus of creating a freely accessible database of national monument images. We are delighted to be able to raise awareness of the benefits of open knowledge and to increase participation in its creation and preservation.”

The project is being supported by The Dept of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, National Heritage Week, The Heritage Council of Ireland, The Office of Public Works, Open Knowledge Ireland, and Dimension Data.

Entries are opne until 30 September and the winners will be announced on 1 November. The top 10 Irish images will then be entered into the international competition.

For more information visit www.wikilovesmonuments.ie.

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