Invitation to prize giving ceremony Wiki Loves Monuments Belgium & Luxembourg 2012
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Brussels, 28 November 2012 – The Wiki Loves Monuments prize giving ceremony for Belgium and Luxembourg will be held on the 30th of November at the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage in Brussels from 19:00.
Last September, the world's largest photography competition took place around the globe with over 35 participating countries, including Belgium and Luxembourg. Organised by national chapters of the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports projects such as Wikipedia, the competition aims to create quality pictures of historic monuments and heritage sites. The project in Belgium and Luxembourg is run by volunteers dedicating their time and energy to make a digital archive of all registered monuments that is freely accessible and reusable for everybody.
During the past edition in 2011 the competition was held in 18 European countries and resulted in the creation of a collection of nearly 170,000 photographs, winning the Guinness record for the world's largest photography competition.
During the Wiki Loves Monuments contest, participants have imported their photos online under a free license. Everyone is invited to attend the prize giving ceremony on Friday, the 30th of November at 19:00 (doors open 18:30) at the at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA, Parc du Cinquantenaire 1) in Brussels.
Belgian website: http://wikilovesmonuments.be
International website: http://wikilovesmonuments.org
For more information:
Romaine, coordinator of Wiki Loves Monuments Belgium and Luxembourg
wmbe@wikimedia.org
Wikipedia is an online multilingual encyclopedia written collectively by its readers. Wikipedia aims to provide content that is freely reusable, reliable, verifiable and which can be improved by anyone. The encyclopedia is the most visited non-profit website in the world. http://www.wikipedia.org
Wikimedia Belgium is the planned local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation in Belgium and Luxembourg. The global foundation is a non-profit, charitable organisation headquartered in San Francisco which operates the servers needed for Wikipedia and its sister projects. The local chapter will aim to promote free knowledge in Belgium and Luxembourg. http://be.wikimedia.org