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Wikipedia Takes America is a campaign held each September to organize Wikipedia Takes Your City photo scavenger hunts across the United States, to coincide with the Wiki Loves Monuments photography contest in the United States and throughout the world.
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Anyone can plan an event! In fact, we invite you to recruit fellow Wikipedians and organize an expedition in your home city.
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A possible convenient joint date to schedule local events would be Saturday September 21.
To be coordinated with event pages in Category:Wikipedia Takes America 2013 .
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Albany – Saturday, September 21
Binghamton (possible)
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Guam – Saturday, September 28
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WP:NRHP has organized a September-long, nationwide contest at Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/NRHP Fall 2013 Photo Contest for fun and barnstars with sub-contests including "longest road trip", "most railroad related sites", and a "Scavenger hunt". Note that this is not part of the official WLM-US "Best photo" contest, and no monetary prizes will be awarded. Smallbones (smalltalk 15:13, 30 August 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
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