We are going to see if we can get images for every Historic Monument in Catawba County.
Here is a link to a list of all the National Register of Historic Places in Catawba County, and which places need an image. I have already done four in Hickory, how many can you do?
Wiki Loves Monuments USA is a photo contest on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons that will run throughout September, 2012. It is part of an international Wiki Loves Monuments competition organized by the Wikimedia Community in over 30 countries.
In the U.S., the contest will focus on sites on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), which have been organized on Wikipedia by state and county.
To get started, you’ll need to set up an account on Wikimedia Commons and then find the historic sites in your area.
If you are ready to go, just click the ‘Get Started’ button in the header.
Cultural heritage is an important part of the knowledge Wikipedia
collects and disseminates. To improve the number and quality of photos
of historic monuments and places, the Wikipedia community started a
photo contest in the Netherlands in 2010, which resulted in 12,500
freely licensed images of monuments that can now be used in Wikipedia,
or by anybody for any purpose. In 2011, 18 countries participated in the
contest, which resulted in 5,000 participants submitting more than
165,000 images.
From: Wiki Loves Monuments USA
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