Hello,
Nice ideas of collaborating cross the borders; I have considered to approach the DE-NL Euregio, but I am afraid that quite few Wikipedians live here.
Kind regards Ziko
2011/7/7 Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with this. We need a little bit of a side-handbook for the insiders who want to do this. Right now for the public, the official line is "take a picture of the monuments near you!". This is the easiest and also the best way to get these people on board and contributing to Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia Commons. That said, there are many of us and other Wikipedians as insiders who would also enjoy participating in the competitions of other countries. In this case, we need to be able to look up the monument numbers to use when uploading. Right now that information is on the native
It could be interesting to involve all persons in the countries which are not participating to this event.
For example I have invited Italian wikipedians living near the border to come in Switzerland to take pictures if they cannot participate for the well known problems of the law in Italy.
It would be sufficient to take two/three days, visit towns in Switzerland and take pictures.
Ilario
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