New subject: Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves running thought June in 120 countries

10 Jun 2016


      Hi all
I'm very happy to say that Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves
http://www.wikilovesearth.bio/ is running in 120 countries throughout
June covering all 699 Biosphere Reserves, 70 of which are in Africa. The
website is available in in English, French, Spanish and Russian but you can
help to translate it into other languages
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/Wiki_Loves_Earth_Biosphere_Reserves_page_translation
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I would really appreciate it if you could tell groups and individuals who
may be interested in taking part e.g other Wikipedians, photography groups
etc, as well as taking part yourselves, we can't run banners on wiki
because of the number of countries involved. The 10 winning images will be
shared on the UNESCO website and through their social media.
UNESCO is promoting the project so I hope this will encourage people from
outside the Wikimedia movement to take part. You can also promote the
project on social media by sharing any of these message from UNESCO on
Twitter https://twitter.com/UNESCO/status/741288621668478976, Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/unesco/photos/a.10150253911838390.341477.51626468389/10154259513948390/?type=3&theater
and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BGeqCavHRMd/, French, Spanish
and Russian messages are linked to from the site. You could also contact
Biosphere Reserves directly to encourage them to share their photos.
UNESCO have also made descriptions of their Biosphere Reserves available
under CC-BY-SA so they can be used to start missing Wikipedia articles, I
have created a simple to use guide to help
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/Create_Biosphere_Reserve_Wikipedia_articles_from_UNESCO_descriptions
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Thanks very much and please feel free to contact me or ask questions here.
John