So far 1747 images have been submitted in South Africa for the Wiki Loves Monuments competition. Just over 140,000 images have been submitted internationally since the beginning of the month by participants in 39 countries.
Also in the news, the Wiki Loves Monument photograph competition has now officially contributed over 1,000,000 images to commons over the past 4 years from country around the world.
To view some of the entries, click here
Wiki will also be doing an event in Franchhoek on Saturday 27 September.
Franschhoek: Wikitakes Franschhoek
Date: Saturday, 27 September 2014
Time: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Location: Old Library, Franschhoek
Join Wiki for a leisurely monument scavenger hunt at the Old Library, Franschhoek to photograph nearby monuments. You will meetup where you started at 1:00pm where Wiki will be on hand to help people upload and submit their photographs to the competition.