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Brazil report

Winners of WLM 2024 Brazil

By Sandra Soster, Éder Porto & Juliana Cunha

The Wiki Loves Monuments Brazil 2024 contest occurred between September 1st and 30th in Brazil and it counted more than 28 thousand images from 282 photographers. Those photographs represent monuments of 24 of the 26 states and the Federal District. All the participants contributed to illustre 2,493 monuments, 2,485 of them were first illustrated on Wikimedia platforms.

Wiki Loves Mato Grosso

This year, in commemorations of the Wiki Loves Mato Grosso initiative, we had an exclusive prize for the best photograph of that state! In addition to that, we promoted events to engage participants in Mato Grosso, such as the Wiki Takes Cáceres. The winner is a photograph of the Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho, Cuiabá, taken by the photographer Rosenberg Mesquita in July of this year.

Best images and Best contributors

The other categories of prizes were Best Contributors and Best Images. In the first one, we gave prizes to the 10 photographers that have more illustrated monuments previously without free-licensed images; Together, they illustrated for the first time almost 850 monuments.

The later category is the main one, in which the jury selects 10 images to represent the country in the international phase of the contest. The ten images represent the states of Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Federal District, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Santa Catarina and Pará, and are displayed next:

See the presentation of the winners and the images uploaded.

New partnership with Centro Espírita Nossa Senhora da Guia (CENSG)

We have signed one more GLAM partnership in Rio de Janeiro State.

The Centro Espírita Nossa Senhora da Guia (CENSG) (Our Lady of Guidance Spiritist Center) is an Umbanda temple of the Omolokô branch, founded in 1998 in the city of Volta Redonda, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. As a space dedicated to preserving the ancestry, memory, and culture of Afro-Brazilian religions and Indigenous peoples, CENSG was recognized in 2024 by the Instituto Brasileiro de Museus (Brazilian Institute of Museums) as a "Memory Point" and by the Ministry of Culture as a "Culture Point".

Due to our partnership, aimed at promoting the history and memory of Afro-Indigenous traditions on the internet, the institution uploaded 133 images from its collection to Wikimedia Commons. The selected photographs show items originating from Afro-Brazilian religions and from the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. These are divided between works preserved as museum pieces by the Umbanda temple and items that form a living collection, still actively used in their rituals.

See the Centro Espírita Nossa Senhora da Guia's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

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