That sounds great, Deror! Would it be an idea to write a short blog post
about these tours for an external audience on
For the past few month we have been diligently
preparing the list of
sights included in the competition. As you may recall, Israel has no one
official list. We could not go to one website and get the information from
it. We approached the Society for Heritage Sites which provided us with
many lists – in each a list of names of buildings or sites, and it was for
our volunteers to locate the site, figure out its address, and whether
there is a category in commons or an article in Wikipedia about it (under
the name provided by us – or, more commonly when such article or category
exists – under another name).
We were also working on publicizing the project, giving interviews to
newspapers about the competition and preparing newspaper articles for the
holiday seasons in which we suggested sites for people to visit during the
upcoming holiday season.
As part of our cooperation with the Heritage society we demanded that they
not only give us funding for the project, but also give us weekly guided
tours of heritage sites around the country (we requested at least four
tours every weekend in different parts of the country). These tours will be
open to the public free of charge (we require that people sign up in
advance through the competition website – and agree the be part of the
Wikimedia Israel GLAM mailing list in the future).
The society further agreed that any active wikipedian who wish to visit a
heritage site which has enterance fees, will be allowed into the site free
of charge, and so will be his family members (again - registration in
advance is required, so we can ensure it is in fact an active wikipedian
who requests the free tickets).
We also contacted the biggest photography school in Israel – the Galitz
school and ask them to give, as sponsorship, free photography workshops on
two weekends prior to the competition. They agreed to give such workshops
for 120 participants and these two workshops will be also open to the
public free of charge.
A list of all our activities can be seen here (truly badly translated by
google):
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_…
Deror
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