Earlier this year, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Wikimedia UK took part in
“Wikipedia Loves Art”, a free content photography contest.
We had over 30 people attend the Victoria and Albert event, and over 460 photographs
submitted to Flickr. Globally, more than 50 teams from fourteen museums submitted over
5,000 photographs, with London submitting the second highest number of photographs from
any location.
All of these photographs have now been assessed and processed and are now being prepared
for upload to Wikimedia Commons and use on Wikipedia. We can now announce the winners from
the V&A, as follows:
Team (members) – Points
1 st place: vavaval - Val_McG and dj_photo – 142 points
2 nd place: opalartseekers4 - Forever Wiser – 88 points
3 rd place: ukfgr - the wee pixie and mrsraggle – 82 points
4 th place: veronikab – 75 points
Vavaval win a large print of one of their photos on soft textured fine art paper, courtesy
of Robbies Photographers, plus two tickets to a V&A exhibition of their choice.
The four winners also win a pack from
moo.com comprising 50 Business Cards and 20
Postcards featuring photographs of their choice.
We are contacting the winners individually with details of how to claim their prizes.
The Digital Team at the V&A and Wikimedia UK really appreciate the effort that all the
teams made to photograph so many objects as well as the time they spent uploading their
work.
Thank you for your patience with us whilst we have processed these photographs, and we
hope you enjoyed participating in this event. If you have any comments about this event or
how it could be improved in the future, please let us know.
Regards,
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Andrew Turvey
Secretary
Wikimedia UK
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