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 Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 - Photographs for Wikipedia 

Cape Town Wiki Loves Monuments edit-a-thon
Wikimedia South Africa will be hosting an edit-a-thon to encourage people to use the photographs take during Wiki Loves Monuments over the years on Wikipedia. As you might well know the Wiki Loves Monuments competition has generated thousands of pictures of South African heritage locations and hundreds of thousands of pictures of heritage sites around the world. Very few of them are currently used on Wikipedia.

As such we created a special prize for "best use on Wikipedia" for a site anywhere in South Africa this year totalling R3,000 and the same prize category for a site in the Western Cape totalling R4,000. The cut off deadline to apply this this prize category is the 7th November 2015. The edit-a-thon is a great opportunity to enter this event and learn more about how to maximise your contributions to Wikipedia using Wiki Loves Monuments photographs.

Details:


 * Date:     Saturday, 24th October 2015


 * Time:     10:00 - 15:00 (people are free to come and go at any time between 10am and 3pm)


 * Location: TwentyFifty, 2nd Floor, 8 Spin Street, Cape Town.

You will need to bring your own computer/notebook/device to edit Wikipedia on. Unfortunately the host site does not offer free standing computers.

We will be serving food and refreshments on the day. It important to keep Wikipedia editors well fed.

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September is heritage month which means it is the beginning of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015.

The contest welcomes contributions from across South Africa, and around the world, to upload pictures of monuments and historical sites to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of these important locations. Entry is as simple as 1-2-3.

These are the prizes up for grabs :


 * First Prize
 * Vouchers from Orms to the value of R 8,000.00


 * Second Prize
 * Vouchers from Orms to the value of R 4,000.00


 * Best media/video documenting a heritage site (national)
 * Vouchers from Orms to the value of R 3,000.00


 * Best Photographic Submission in the Western Cape
 * Vouchers from Orms to the value of R 6,000.00


 * Best use on of WLM submissions on Wikipedia
 * Vouchers from Orms to the value of R 3,000.00


 * Best use of WLM content to document heritages sites in the Western Cape on Wikipedia
 * Vouchers from Orms to the value of R 4,000.00

To enter the “Best use on Wikipedia” categories please add the following categories to the photograph/media pages on Commons after that media has been used on Wikipedia: “Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 South Africa used on Wikipedia”