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[[File:WMFR.jpg|thumb|190px|Some of the Wikimedia France staff]]
[[File:Monument to the Fallen Soldier.jpg|thumb|250px|First prize: Monument to the Fallen Soldier by Tim Firkins]]


''This post was written by Jon Davies, Chief Executive''
Wikimedia UK is delighted to announce the UK winners of the 2013 Wiki Loves Monuments competition.


Last week, while on a short holiday in Paris, I made an afternoon visit to the offices of Wikimedia France.
Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s largest photography contest. The objective is to collect high quality photographs of some of the world’s most important buildings – in the UK, this means Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings.


As ever I got a great welcome and excellent coffee. Their current offices are near the Seine and the Gare de Lyons in an apartment which though not ideal and quite expensive  is rather nice all the same.
Over 570 people took part in the UK competition, contributing more than 12,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons, one of the world’s largest repositories of freely licensed media files. Volunteer editors have already started making use of some of these new images to illustrate Wikipedia.


Apart from meeting the staff and delivering our latest publications it was a chance to meet their new Executive Director Nathalie Martin, my equivalent in the French chapter. Nathalie was still smiling after over a full month in post despite having to come up to speed with all the comings and goings of the wiki world and, deep breath, having to become fluent in English. She seems to be doing well on the latter front and we were able to rabbit away in a mixture of my ‘imaginative’ French and her rapidly improving English.
Steve Cole, one of the competition judges and Head of Imaging at English Heritage, said: ” The Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition produced a fantastic range of subjects and photographic styles. Choosing the winners was no easy task. The views of the judges varied enormously, individual favourites fell by the wayside as they failed to excite the other two judges. The winning images present not only a good eye for composition but also the ability to capture the mood of the moment.”
Wikimedia France is hoping to move to more appropriate premises soon but if you are in Paris drop in and say ‘bonjour’ – the coffee alone makes it worth the trip.


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Thumbnails of the winning entries are below but you can see them in all of their glory [[:Commons:Category:UK Wiki Loves Monuments winners 2013|here on Wikimedia Commons]].
 
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* {{event inline|2013|10|30|Martin Poulter taking part in [http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog/entry/jisc-digital-media-webinar-for-october-finding-and-using-audio-and-video-re Jisc Digital Media webinar] on "Finding and Using Audio and Video Resources"}}
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* {{event inline|2013|11|9|end=10|[[meta:Wikimedia Diversity Conference|Wikimedia Diversity Conference]]}}, Berlin, Germany
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