June 2009 was indeed Wiki Loves Art /NL. But wasn't that also already based on the (different in scope and way it was organized though) New York edition earlier that year? Smaller in number of organizations, but I believe not very small in number of photos.
Lodewijk 2013/11/11 Hay (Husky) <hus...@gmail.com> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > The first Wiki photo competition (that I'm aware of) was Wikipedia Takes > > Manhattan in Spring 2008. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Spring_2008 > The first "big" photo competition was Wiki Loves Art, during june 2009: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons%3AWiki_Loves_Art_Netherlands > > We had 45 museums participating back then, resulting in 5500 photographs. > > -- Hay > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
