Join Wiki Loves Earth — the biggest international contest devoted to nature heritage sites! 🌏
Find out how to take part and organize your contest 📸wikilovesearth.org/wiki-loves-ear
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The M.O. Hammond fonds documents The Group of Seven and other members of the artistic establishment in early 20th century Ontario.
Explore 1000+ photos from this collection on : ow.ly/BP4C50Cybol.
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This #MusicMonday, check out this photo of a young violinist, circa 1900. It's one of more than 1,750 images we've added to the to make our records more accessible and encourage knowledge creation! Explore them all: ow.ly/BPQ230rlRsS.
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Africa in #Wikipedia: ongoing efforts. donated 4,000 Africa photos to (Photo: Grande Mosque Agadez, Angeline van Achterberg Collection) ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-libr
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Have you tried the brand new #MediaSearch at yet? commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:M Do it, then take the survey! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:S #wikimedia #search
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For this year's competition, photographers submitted over 106,000 photos of natural beauty from all over the world. Have a look at the fifteen winning shots to wrap up the year!
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Starting TOMORROW — Want to see your photo featured on a page? #WPWP is bridging the gap between millions of quality photos on and the Wikipedia pages that need them. It only takes a minute to help! More info: meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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Our #COVID19 subproject started uploading in Alberto Giuliani's 16 portraits at San Salvatore hospital in Pesaro. On magazine covers all over the world, were declared all #FeaturedPhotos, ready to be used in wiki commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category: @1854
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Naqsh-e Jahan Square (میدان نقش جهان), also known as Imam Square, situated at the center of Isfahan, Iran. Constructed between 1598 & 1629, it is now an important historical site, and one of 's World Heritage Sites.
📷Amir pashaei, CC-BY-SA 4.0
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The Glecksteinhütte is an abandoned mountain hut in Fallätsche, Zurich. It was built in the early 1900s so that people in Zurich could enjoy an "alpine" experience without having to travel far to the higher mountains.
(Daniel Kraft, CC-BY-SA 3.0)
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Lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) in Gullmarn fjord at Sämstad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. This specimen is about 10–12 cm (3.9–4.7 in) in diameter and the tentacles are about 60–80 cm (24–31 in) long.
(Photo: W.carter, License: CC0 1.0)
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Français : Escalier au musée Unterlinden de Colmar (Haut-Rhin, France).
English: Staircase at the Unterlinden museum in Colmar (Haut-Rhin, France).
(Photo: Gzen92, License: CC-BY-SA 4.0)
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Female cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), Phinda Private Game Reserve, South Africa. This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 24 September 2017. (Photo: Charles J Sharp, License: CC-BY-SA 4.0)
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A stream on a track between Sabine Hut and Speargrass Hut, Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand. Photo by Michal Klajban released under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license on Wikimedia Commons. w.wiki/V8f
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Nantucket Shore (1865 Painting) by William Trost Richards, Nantucket Historical Association.
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Take some photos and upload them to meet our monthly thematic challenge, get inspiration and try new subjects! Learn more about the challenges!
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This is the Photo of the Year.
Learn more: medium.com/freely-sharing
Photo by Rodney Ee/”eastcoastrod”, CC BY 2.0.
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Yes, the photographer made sure to purchase insurance just in case they couldn't get out of the way of these stampeding bulls.
This is our newest Picture of the Year.
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"I figured that in order to get a close up shot of the action, I needed a really long zoom...and just for my protection, I probably needed travel insurance too!" —Hear the story behind the newest Wikimedia Picture of the Year 📷
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Wiki Loves Earth 2020 has started! 📸 The 8th edition is open in May — July for your photos of nature heritage sites.
Check out participating countries — w.wiki/KYH
Find out more about WLE at the Wikipedia Weekly episode today at 3 pm UTC 👉twitter.com/wikipediaweekly
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Commons is a library of photos, videos and audios uploaded by different people which can be freely used by Wikimedia communities or anyone
#wiki4Refugees #Asknet
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Join us to document folk culture around your region with Wiki Loves Folklore photography contest on Wikimedia Commons. Learn more at: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:W
#WikiLovesFolklore; #WikiLovesLove; #Folklore; #WikimediaCommons; #Wikimedia
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With a large, 15-month restoration project completed, Point Reyes Lighthouse reopened in November. To document the change, I photographed this spectacular place for #wikipedia last weekend @PointReyesNPS @WikiCommons
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The "advanced mobile contributions mode" is now available on Wikimedia Commons! The feature will add more contributor features to the mobile web interface. To turn advanced mode on, go to your settings page on the mobile site.
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Upload your scientific images during Wiki Science Competition 2019! Learn more about the contest!
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Bientôt 3000 fichiers de versés sur cette année, la quasi totalité grâce au soutien de et de son pack #Atget
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Governments using CC licenses to share knowledge makes us happy. 🙃
The Indian state of Odisha just relicensed 21 dictionaries — in all the 21 indigenous languages that are spoken in the province — under CC-BY 4.0. 🙌
They can all be downloaded here: ova.gov.in/de/anubada/?ca
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I've managed to upload the first photograph of #MaithiliThakur (an Indian singer; #MithilaKeAanBaanSaan) on the . Thank you !
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You spin me right round, Big Ben, right round, like a 3D model.
Did you know that you can upload 3D models to ?
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It's that time of the year again! #WikiLovesMonuments 2019 officially started on September 1st.
Join the world's largest photo competition, contribute to Wikipedia and compete for that €1500 grand prize!
wikilovesmonuments.org/participate/
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Today, Wikipedia was hit with a malicious attack that has taken it offline in several countries for intermittent periods. The attack is ongoing; our Site Reliability Engineering team is working hard to stop it and restore access to the site. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/0 #Wikipediadown
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Usually the month of September.
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Is your library on ? Put your community on the map with this year's Wiki Loves Monuments competition #ScottishLibraries #SLICblog ow.ly/Q8Jr50vBGMG
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Wikimania 2019: closing session
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#Wikimania coolest tool award 
[Mobile] category: Commons mobile app, allows you to upload pictures to @WikiCommons from your smartphone, but also categorize, and view nearby missing images. More than 120K files have been uploaded using this app!
[Mobile] category: Commons mobile app, allows you to upload pictures to @WikiCommons from your smartphone, but also categorize, and view nearby missing images. More than 120K files have been uploaded using this app!2
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. welcome session by Michael Peter Edson, co-founder and Associate Director of The Museum for the United Nations — UN Live. Photo by Nahid Sultan, cc-by-sa 4.0 #Wikimania2019
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