Wikipedia: Photo competition with App Support
The competition is an initiative of the Wikipedia community, which has now been taken up by the Wikimedia Foundation. You want more volunteers show a way to make constructive contributions to the online encyclopedia without having to bother with relevance criteria, formatting rules or talk pages.
The competition is now held for the third time. 2011 more than 5000 participants from 18 countries had uploaded a total of 168 000 photographs of cultural and historical monuments. This year a total of 31 nations are in the process, including the U.S., Israel and South Africa. In each country, national winners will be attending then to the international competition for the best picture. Closing date is 30th September.
Overall, the organizers have provided spatial data of a million of potential motives.
The photographer to help the same, two different apps for smartphones and tablets. The Wikimedia Foundation has released an official Android app, the participants shows the way to the next monuments, attention to common photo trips and makes the results can directly upload to Wikimedia Commons. The portal 123POI has made an app for the competition are available, which is also available for iOS.
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