That sounds great, Deror! Would it be an idea to write a short blog post about these tours for an external audience on wikilovesmonuments.org ?
Best, Lodewijk 2012/8/28 Deror Avi <[email protected]> > 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 > > Deror > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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