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[[File:Monument to the Fallen Soldier.jpg|thumb|250px|First prize: Monument to the Fallen Soldier by Tim Firkins]]
[[File:Rod Dunican presents at EduWiki Conference 2013 2.JPG|thumb|250px|Rodney Dunican delivering his keynote at EduWiki 2013]]


Wikimedia UK is delighted to announce the UK winners of the 2013 Wiki Loves Monuments competition.
Educators and Wikimedians from around the world met this weekend in Cardiff for Wikimedia UK’s second annual [[EduWiki Conference 2013|EduWiki Conference]].


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.
The conference addressed issues that concern both the education sector and the Wikimedia movement. These include: how we promote digital literacy, how we discourage plagiarism, how we assess learner contributions, and how we can use the data about users and their behaviour (“learning analytics”) that online tools give us.


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.
The two-day conference brought together academics, students, librarians, and support staff-as well as contributors to [[:Wikipedia:Main page|Wikipedia]], [[:Wikiversity:Main page|Wikiversity]] and Wikinews-for talks, presentations and workshops including three keynotes. [http://garethmorlais.co.uk/Gareth-Morlais-English.html Gareth Morlais], Digital Media Specialist at the Welsh Government, spoke about the difficulty of getting minority languages recognised by the web’s big names such as Google. The size of [[:cy:Hafan|Welsh Wicipedia]] is one marker of the importance of the language, and this is one way Wicipedia creates opportunities for Welsh speakers. Gareth delivered his presentation in Welsh, with live translation through headsets.


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.”
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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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