Two other people are doing this right now also! Is this a coincidence?
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yours,
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Christophe Henner <
christophe.henner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So on the wine project, the issue is we would have to target wines bottled
> before 1900, just to be quite sure there's no copyright issue on the wine
> bottles labels.
> Having said that, you could imagine the
price we'd have to pay to run that
> project.
> On Twitter, last night, another wikimedian
had a great idea. He suggested
> that we would buy a mass spectrometer so we could digitaly record the smell
> of the cheeses. Everyone could enjoy how smelly some are
> --
> Christophe
> On 25 November 2014 at 09:59, Jon Davies
<jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk
> wrote:
> > And next the wine project? Count me
in.
>
> > On 24 November 2014 at 18:22,
Christophe Henner <
> > christophe.henner(a)gmail.com
> > > wrote:
>
> > > Good news everyone,
> >
> > > Cheese
articles are gonna get improved!
> >
> > > As
french, it was dreadful for us to see so few illustrations of cheese
> > on
> > > Wikipedia. This is about to change.
> >
> > > A
group of french Wikimedians, lead by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, designed
> a
> > > project to photograph many cheeses, up to 200 for the moment.
> >
> > > This
project is perticular as we aim to have it found through a french
> > > crowdfunding platform, KissKissBankBank.
> >
> > > Of
course Wikimedia France could have funded it itself, but we wanted
> to
> > > use the project as a way to get the larger audience aware of their
> > ability
> > > to contribute and to give a fun image of contributing.
> >
> > > The
project in few words iss follow :
> > > * 10 cheeses per session
> > > * During the session the cheeses are photographed and their articles
> > > improved
> > > * During the sessions experimented wikimedian would train new editors
> > > * At every session every participant would enjoy eating good cheese too
> >
> > > If you
want to read more, or even contribute, about the project you can
> > go
> > > on KissKissBankBank :
> > >
http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/wikicheese
> >
> >
> > > If you have any questions, please
feel free to shoot them on or off
> list.
> >
> > > All
the best,
> >
> > > --
> > > Christophe
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