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 <
pierre.beaudouin(a)wikimedia.fr>gt;:
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
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