For the past few month we have been diligently preparing the list of sights
included in the competition. As you may recall, Israel has no one official
list. We could not go to one website and get the information from it. We
approached the Society for Heritage Sites which provided us with many lists –
in each a list of names of buildings or sites, and it was for our volunteers to
locate the site, figure out its address, and whether there is a category in
commons or an article in Wikipedia about it (under the name provided by us –
or, more commonly when such article or category exists – under another name).
We were also working on publicizing the project, giving interviews to
newspapers about the competition and preparing newspaper articles for the
holiday seasons in which we suggested sites for people to visit during the
upcoming holiday season.
As part of our cooperation with the Heritage society we demanded that they not
only give us funding for the project, but also give us weekly guided tours of
heritage sites around the country (we requested at least four tours every
weekend in different parts of the country). These tours will be open to the
public free of charge (we require that people sign up in advance through the
competition website – and agree the be part of the Wikimedia Israel GLAM
mailing list in the future).
The society further agreed that any active wikipedian who wish to visit a
heritage site which has enterance fees, will be allowed into the site free of
charge, and so will be his family members (again - registration in advance is
required, so we can ensure it is in fact an active wikipedian who requests the
free tickets).
We also contacted the biggest photography school in Israel – the Galitz school
and ask them to give, as sponsorship, free photography workshops on two
weekends prior to the competition. They agreed to give such workshops for 120
participants and these two workshops will be also open to the public free of
charge.
A list of all our activities can be seen here (truly badly translated by
google):
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wlm.org.il%2F%3Fpage_id%3D17
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