Hie John ,Iam interested to be part of the project,
Mbizo Chirasha,Zimbabwe.
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> Dear all
>
> I'm working on the Connected Open Heritage
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage> project which
> aims to improve and create knowledge about the built cultural heritage
> especially built heritage in danger of several countries around the world.
> The project is a collaboration between Wikimedia Sweden, Wikimedia Italia,
> UNESCO and Cultural Heritage without Borders.
>
> The aims of the project are:
>
> - Creating a worldwide list of built heritage registers
> - Adding national registers of built heritage to Wikidata (among other
> things this will help people to run Wiki Loves Monuments more easily by
> preparing the list of sites for you).
> - Adding images from partner organisations to Commons
>
> We would very much like people from all over the world to be involved, you
> can take part by:
>
> 1. Adding information to countries to the List of Heritage Registers
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heritage_registers> article.
> 2. Adding information about potential partner organisations who may have
> images of built heritage in our shortlist of countries
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage/Countries>.
> 3. Adding information about built cultural heritage in the countries on
> our
> shortlist
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage/Countries>.
> 4. Designing our logo
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage/Get_Involved/Logo>
> (open until Sunday) and support existing logo designs (open until the
> 11th
> of November).
>
> For reference these are the African countries on our shortlist:
>
> - Mali
> - Egypt
> - Morocco
> - Tanzania
> - Zimbabwe
> - South Africa
> - Kenya
>
> Thanks very much
>
> John
>