Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2024/Participant Survey Report
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Context
[edit]Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is an annual international photography competition held during the months of September and October, organised worldwide by Wikimedia community members and local Wikimedia affiliates across the globe. Participants take pictures of local historical monuments and heritage sites in their region, and upload them to Wikimedia Commons. The aim of the event is to highlight the heritage sites of the participating countries to encourage people to capture pictures of these monuments and put them under a free licence which can then be re-used not only in Wikipedia but also everywhere by everyone. The first Wiki Loves Monuments competition was held in 2010 in the Netherlands as a pilot project. The next year it spread to other countries in Europe and according to the Guinness World Records, the 2011 edition of the Wiki Loves Monuments broke the world record for the largest photography competition.
In 2024, fifty-six countries took part in the competition, gathering a total of close to 153K pictures of cultural heritage artefacts. The top ten images from each participating country were considered for the international pool, and the winners of the international competition are to be announced February 2025. In order to understand various experiences by participants of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024, what worked well, and what can be improved in the future, the participant survey had been conducted.
Summary
[edit]The results of the survey will be published here as soon as it has been finished and evaluated.