We are pleased to announce the next edition of the "Wiki Likes Monuments" competition. It is an open photo competition to which we invite both professionals and amateurs. The 10 best photos of this year's edition of "Wiki Likes Monuments" will go to the international final of the competition, where it will compete with photos from dozens of countries.

The aim of the competition is to photograph and preserve for future generations the monuments of Polish and the world. The idea is to collect documentation of Polish material heritage and make it available for free to everyone in the world.

The competition photographs will become part of Wikipedia's multimedia resources and will be able to illustrate entries in almost 300 language versions. Photographs will also be able to be used - completely for free - in educational or tourist publications.

We are interested in various photos of monuments. These can be good quality or interesting photos of the most famous objects in our country. But we are also waiting for photographs of lesser-known buildings. It can be a historic windmill, an abandoned industrial plant, a small chapel, a disused church - the ground so that the object appears in the register of monuments

The competition is part of the global Wiki Loves Monuments initiative.

The idea for the competition was born in 2010 in the Netherlands. A year later, 5,500 photographers from 18 European countries (including Polish) participated in the competition for the awards, who sent a total of over 168,000 photos – thanks to which Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 was included in the Guinness Book of Records in the "Largest Photo Competition" category. The third edition of the competition, which took place on 1-30 September 2012, has already covered the whole world: 15,000 people from 35 countries sent over 365,000 photos.