*(sorry for double posting*)
2011/10/27 Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org
A wonderful message! Thanks a lot for sharing.
I translated into French and shared it to our mailing list. This is so
inspiring that it just needs to be shared.
If we have more feedback like this, I hope we can share it somewhere
together.
I’ll take this opportunity to share this link that Adrienne found at the
beginning of the month :
http://emiloulie.blogspot.com/2011/10/wiki-loves-monuments.html
It’s a blogpost in French, written by a 16 years old girl living in
Romania, and it is easily one of the cutest and freshest things I have ever
read in six years of Wikimedia.
As I said at the time on the French ML :
“This is Wiki Loves Monuments.
16 years-old kids grabbing their bikes to see the cultural heritage around,
and finding out that they can help Wikipedia.
A French girl, born in the United States and living in Romania, taking part
in a European contest spearheaded by Dutch.”
This is really an extraordinary story that we are part of, don’t you think?
:-)
Following is the most faithful translation I can provide. :-)
(@Romania organisers : folks, I hope your jury will consider sending the
girl a prize :-)
--
Jean-Frédéric
>
> Wiki loves Monuments Hello everyone!
>
> I hope you spent a good week, because we did ! The challenge that we had
> to do was very nice, and allowed us to visit a bit the city.
> I don’t know if you know, but Wikipedia has organised a competition in
> Europe last month (September). In ten countries of the European Union a
> list of monuments was created. We had to take a picture of all these
> monuments so that Wikipedia could then put them in their databases.
> Here is the website :
http://wikilovesmonuments.fr/
>
> Fortunately for us, Romania was one of the competing countries! So we
> decided to take part to this treasure hunt.
> First, we found the list of all the monuments to photograph in our city.
> Then we looked for those that were accessible and near our home. This took
> a lot of time but in the end we managed to make our own list.
> This Thursday, we went with our bikes all well prepared for the event. We
> had to go to the post office so we took this opportunity to take pictures
> of : the C.D. Loga high school, the Carmen Silva high school, and a very
> old hospital.
>
> We had in all two hours of biking!
>
> On Friday, as I was preparing lunch, Noé and Mom went to photograph the
> Eiffel bridge and the city fire station.
>
> We sent everything to Wikipedia :) hoping we will get a prize...
> Later,
> Emiloulie
>