11 December 2012

Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 has now a winner

Safdarjung’s Tomb, a garden tomb with a marble mausoleum in New Delhi, India. This photo won the 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments competition

The competition Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 has finally a winner. The photo that received the highest ranking by the international jury in this year edition portrait the Tomb of Safarjung in New Delhi, India (left).
 
The outstanding figures achieved by this competition reflects the strategic importance that citizens can have in the valorization and promotion of local cultural heritage. The 2012 edition, in fact, counted more than 350.000 entries spread in 33 countries worldwide. More than 15.000 people submitted their own images picturing a vast gamma of cultural heritage spots all over the world.

The international contest helped to rouse enthusiasm and engagement around the important issue of citizen participation in the maintaining of cultural heritage, a complex theme explored during the last CreativeCH’s workshop in November.

As stated by Wikimedia Foundation, the Wiki Loves Monuments’ project promoter, the contest fostered a bottom up approach which helped to collect a “beautiful and diverse selection of monuments – showing the diversity of the cultural heritage in the participating countries. It is especially interesting to see that most of the top-15 prize winning photographers are users that did not participate before”

For further information and to see the top 15 awarded picture in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, follow this link

Stefano Sbarbati