hi it is a good idea, in Saudi Arabia there are a lot of wikipedia users, and I think they will be engaged in this project, but I think it not easy to take photos during the Hajj with a professional camera
2017-09-02 14:48 GMT+01:00 Pierre-Yves Beaudouin < [email protected]>: > Hi, > > First of all, my apology for my email in english. > > It would be great to send an experienced photographer to cover the Hajj > 2018 (or 2019). > > There is a lot of pictures of the Hajj on Wikimedia Commons [1] but almost > nothing of quality. > > I would be happy to work on this project. I can elaborate the budget, find > some funds for the project (I think that some European chapters would be > happy to fund that), obtain a media accreditation, etc.. The number of > accreditations is very limited and Saudi Arabia probably censored a lot of > articles of Wikipedia, but let's try! Some wikimedians send Wikipedia on > the Moon [2], we could try to send someone to Mecca ;) > > Pyb > Wikimedia France > > [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hajj_by_year > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon > _______________________________________________ > Wikiar-l mailing list > https://ar.wikipedia.org > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l -- Amicalement Mounir Touzri [email protected] +216 29 774 346 Member Wikimedia TN user group _______________________________________________ Wikiar-l mailing list https://ar.wikipedia.org [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l
