Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual event which takes place across the globe every

September. The competition is designed to bring together people who value their
local historic environment with amateur and professional photographers alike to
capture images of the worlds historic monuments.
These photos are then shared with the world under free licences via Wikimedia Co
mmons, a free media repository which amongst other things provides most of the i
mages for Wikipedia. The UK competition is sponsored by the charity Wikimedia UK
, the local chapter of the global Wikimedia movement.
Entries can be images taken specially for the competition, or photographs you ha
ve taken in the past.
Entrants from outside the UK are most welcome to enter photos that were taken in
the UK. Entrants in the UK but with photographs from abroad are welcome to par
ticipate in any of the other national contests.
There are many things that make Wiki Loves Monuments special:
The competition is led and driven by a global network of volunteers
The competition is open to absolutely everyone, and participation is completely f
ree
Over 40 countries participated in 2013 across six continents
Over 368,000 photos were entered in the competition in 2013
The winners (and indeed many non-winners) will see their photos used in Wikipedia
articles with a potential audience in the hundreds of millions
All entrants help to provide a range of locally-sourced images that are available
for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere.