The Impact of Wiki Loves Monuments

The recent Wiki Loves Monuments contest across Europe was a very interesting example of how you can mobilise citizens to donate time and free images, for other people to use using the Creative Commons licenses. More than 170.000 uploads and a final selection of beautiful pictures that were rewarded with a prize. Now it is up to local communities to start using that material to show their local treasures to the world. The video above is such an example on the positive impact of such a contest.

Using a subtitling collaborative platform the video above is also available with subtitles in many languages including English and Italian.