User talk:LavaLampBamboo

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Please enable e-mail to be eligible to win a prize in Wiki Loves Monuments!

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Hi. Just going through some of your uploads for Wiki loves monuments. It's a shame you've uploaded as png as I think they'd all be better as jpegs. PNGs are better for web artwork rather than photographs. Secretlondon (talk) 21:53, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2022! Please help with this survey

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Dear LavaLampBamboo,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2022, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 150K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 35 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.

Please fill in this short survey and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2022.

Kind regards, Wiki Loves Monuments team, 09:38, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2024!

Hi there, Sara from Wikimedia UK here, just wanted to say a huge thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK this year! It's so lovely to see so many great images coming through, and improving the coverage of the UK's listed buildings & scheduled monuments. Thanks so much! Sara Thomas (WMUK) (talk) 10:26, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2023 voting is open!

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