Hi,
We are about to organize a wikiexpedition devoted to train infrastructure in Poland. It will be officially co-organised with Polish Railways. Polish Railways will provide us free tickets for traveling across Poland using any trains and special passes to legally enter and photograph rail tracks, workshops, rail yards, cargo railway stations, museums belonging to Polish Railways etc. In order to get the pass it will be obligatory to undergo a special basic one-day railtrack safety training which will be provided for free by Polish Railways employees. Actually we don't know what time it will happen - for sure during summer, but it is actually to negotiate. It is possible to have several 2-4 people teams. The requirements will be just: *being devoted wiki-photographer ready to submit photos to Wikimedia Commons under free licences *being highly crazy about railways stuff - i.e. be ready to travel across Poland using mainly slow, local trains which stops on every tiny station, sleep in low cost hostels, feed yourself for 32 PLN a day :-) *You don't need to speak Polish - we can try to organize a mixed teams fro both training and expeditions.
If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
Wow, what a great initiative! I'm not applying, just want to say this is another great example of how the world gets to recognize more and more what we have to offer. And who knows, Polish wikivoyage might benefit too?
Erik Zachte
-----Original Message----- From: wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Ganicz Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 4:19 PM To: chapters-cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch; Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Train Wikiexpedition in Poland
Hi,
We are about to organize a wikiexpedition devoted to train infrastructure in Poland. It will be officially co-organised with Polish Railways. Polish Railways will provide us free tickets for traveling across Poland using any trains and special passes to legally enter and photograph rail tracks, workshops, rail yards, cargo railway stations, museums belonging to Polish Railways etc. In order to get the pass it will be obligatory to undergo a special basic one-day railtrack safety training which will be provided for free by Polish Railways employees. Actually we don't know what time it will happen - for sure during summer, but it is actually to negotiate. It is possible to have several 2-4 people teams. The requirements will be just: *being devoted wiki-photographer ready to submit photos to Wikimedia Commons under free licences *being highly crazy about railways stuff - i.e. be ready to travel across Poland using mainly slow, local trains which stops on every tiny station, sleep in low cost hostels, feed yourself for 32 PLN a day :-) *You don't need to speak Polish - we can try to organize a mixed teams fro both training and expeditions.
If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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I'm also replying to say how awesome this initiative is! I only wish I had the flexibility and disposable income to come over and participate :)
Have a great time with it and kudos for organizing such a cool trip. I need to see if Amtrak would be nearly as accommodating over here in the U.S.!
-Matthew
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Erik Zachte ezachte@wikimedia.org wrote:
Wow, what a great initiative! I'm not applying, just want to say this is another great example of how the world gets to recognize more and more what we have to offer. And who knows, Polish wikivoyage might benefit too?
Erik Zachte
-----Original Message----- From: wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Ganicz Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 4:19 PM To: chapters-cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch; Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Train Wikiexpedition in Poland
Hi,
We are about to organize a wikiexpedition devoted to train infrastructure in Poland. It will be officially co-organised with Polish Railways. Polish Railways will provide us free tickets for traveling across Poland using any trains and special passes to legally enter and photograph rail tracks, workshops, rail yards, cargo railway stations, museums belonging to Polish Railways etc. In order to get the pass it will be obligatory to undergo a special basic one-day railtrack safety training which will be provided for free by Polish Railways employees. Actually we don't know what time it will happen - for sure during summer, but it is actually to negotiate. It is possible to have several 2-4 people teams. The requirements will be just: *being devoted wiki-photographer ready to submit photos to Wikimedia Commons under free licences *being highly crazy about railways stuff - i.e. be ready to travel across Poland using mainly slow, local trains which stops on every tiny station, sleep in low cost hostels, feed yourself for 32 PLN a day :-) *You don't need to speak Polish - we can try to organize a mixed teams fro both training and expeditions.
If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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"Polish Railways will provide us free tickets" excellent negotiation!
Hey, train enthusiasts everywhere else (including the UK and USA) here is an incredibly tough target for the rest of us to try and beat. :-D
Fae
On 26 April 2013 15:19, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We are about to organize a wikiexpedition devoted to train infrastructure in Poland. It will be officially co-organised with Polish Railways. Polish Railways will provide us free tickets for traveling across Poland using any trains and special passes to legally enter and photograph rail tracks, workshops, rail yards, cargo railway stations, museums belonging to Polish Railways etc. In order to get the pass it will be obligatory to undergo a special basic one-day railtrack safety training which will be provided for free by Polish Railways employees. Actually we don't know what time it will happen - for sure during summer, but it is actually to negotiate. It is possible to have several 2-4 people teams. The requirements will be just: *being devoted wiki-photographer ready to submit photos to Wikimedia Commons under free licences *being highly crazy about railways stuff - i.e. be ready to travel across Poland using mainly slow, local trains which stops on every tiny station, sleep in low cost hostels, feed yourself for 32 PLN a day :-) *You don't need to speak Polish - we can try to organize a mixed teams fro both training and expeditions.
If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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On 26 April 2013 18:05, Fae faewik+glam@gmail.com wrote:
"Polish Railways will provide us free tickets" excellent negotiation!
Hey, train enthusiasts everywhere else (including the UK and USA) here is an incredibly tough target for the rest of us to try and beat. :-D
National Railway Museum in york is free.
On 26 April 2013 18:25, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
National Railway Museum in york is free.
LOL, but they have yet to match "free tickets for traveling across <s>Poland</s> the UK"!
For a railways related job interview, I once had travel-anywhere ticket (they were red back then) for free travel for the day anywhere in the UK, but that was in the days of a more unified railway system.
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Awesome Project -
I used to work at a railyard, I advise to please take the safety training seriously :)
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Fae faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 April 2013 18:25, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
National Railway Museum in york is free.
LOL, but they have yet to match "free tickets for traveling across <s>Poland</s> the UK"!
For a railways related job interview, I once had travel-anywhere ticket (they were red back then) for free travel for the day anywhere in the UK, but that was in the days of a more unified railway system.
Fae
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and Tomasz, I do hope you'll consider a blog post about this for the Wikimedia Blog. Certainly at the end of the event, but if you are hoping to publicize the opportunity, you might also consider it before the event happens.
More info on submitting material for the blog here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog
Or feel free to get in touch with me whenever you like.
thanks, Matthew
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Victor Grigas vgrigas@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Awesome Project -
I used to work at a railyard, I advise to please take the safety training seriously :)
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Fae faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 April 2013 18:25, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
National Railway Museum in york is free.
LOL, but they have yet to match "free tickets for traveling across <s>Poland</s> the UK"!
For a railways related job interview, I once had travel-anywhere ticket (they were red back then) for free travel for the day anywhere in the UK, but that was in the days of a more unified railway system.
Fae
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Am 26.04.2013 19:05, schrieb Fae:
"Polish Railways will provide us free tickets" excellent negotiation!
Hey, train enthusiasts everywhere else (including the UK and USA) here is an incredibly tough target for the rest of us to try and beat. :-D
In Switzerland 90% of the population has a General Abonnement anyway, so they don't care about tickets at all (for trains, busses, trams, funiculars...)
:-P
hahaha ... sure. about 400'000 of these are sold for 3000 eur every year, having a population of 8'000'000. and this number includes the ones used by people not living in switzerland like yours as well ;)
rupert.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
Am 26.04.2013 19:05, schrieb Fae:
"Polish Railways will provide us free tickets" excellent negotiation!
Hey, train enthusiasts everywhere else (including the UK and USA) here is an incredibly tough target for the rest of us to try and beat. :-D
In Switzerland 90% of the population has a General Abonnement anyway, so they don't care about tickets at all (for trains, busses, trams, funiculars...)
:-P
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Just chiming in: this is very, very awesome. The high intersection of train geeks and Wikipedians is well known. :) This will be just wonderful.
A.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We are about to organize a wikiexpedition devoted to train infrastructure in Poland. It will be officially co-organised with Polish Railways. Polish Railways will provide us free tickets for traveling across Poland using any trains and special passes to legally enter and photograph rail tracks, workshops, rail yards, cargo railway stations, museums belonging to Polish Railways etc. In order to get the pass it will be obligatory to undergo a special basic one-day railtrack safety training which will be provided for free by Polish Railways employees. Actually we don't know what time it will happen - for sure during summer, but it is actually to negotiate. It is possible to have several 2-4 people teams. The requirements will be just: *being devoted wiki-photographer ready to submit photos to Wikimedia Commons under free licences *being highly crazy about railways stuff - i.e. be ready to travel across Poland using mainly slow, local trains which stops on every tiny station, sleep in low cost hostels, feed yourself for 32 PLN a day :-) *You don't need to speak Polish - we can try to organize a mixed teams fro both training and expeditions.
If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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I thinkk that it's a reallay good idea.
Personally I invited Polish people to share their experience of wikiexpeditions and I think that this opportunity may be a real way to spread it.
regards
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We are about to organize a wikiexpedition devoted to train infrastructure in Poland. It will be officially co-organised with Polish Railways. Polish Railways will provide us free tickets for traveling across Poland using any trains and special passes to legally enter and photograph rail tracks, workshops, rail yards, cargo railway stations, museums belonging to Polish Railways etc. In order to get the pass it will be obligatory to undergo a special basic one-day railtrack safety training which will be provided for free by Polish Railways employees. Actually we don't know what time it will happen - for sure during summer, but it is actually to negotiate. It is possible to have several 2-4 people teams. The requirements will be just: *being devoted wiki-photographer ready to submit photos to Wikimedia Commons under free licences *being highly crazy about railways stuff - i.e. be ready to travel across Poland using mainly slow, local trains which stops on every tiny station, sleep in low cost hostels, feed yourself for 32 PLN a day :-) *You don't need to speak Polish - we can try to organize a mixed teams fro both training and expeditions.
If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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Tomasz just published a post on the Wikimedia blog about this: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/23/wikimedia-train-expedition-poland/
Feel free to retweet and share it, if you're into the social networks: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/337595719265439745 https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10151584522723346 https://plus.google.com/u/1/108193079736330787108/posts/M9bB8PDuwCV
Thanks also to Justin Duranboger for the translation to Spanish!
-Matthew
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
We are about to organize a wikiexpedition devoted to train infrastructure in Poland. It will be officially co-organised with Polish Railways. Polish Railways will provide us free tickets for traveling across Poland using any trains and special passes to legally enter and photograph rail tracks, workshops, rail yards, cargo railway stations, museums belonging to Polish Railways etc. In order to get the pass it will be obligatory to undergo a special basic one-day railtrack safety training which will be provided for free by Polish Railways employees. Actually we don't know what time it will happen - for sure during summer, but it is actually to negotiate. It is possible to have several 2-4 people teams. The requirements will be just: *being devoted wiki-photographer ready to submit photos to Wikimedia Commons under free licences *being highly crazy about railways stuff - i.e. be ready to travel across Poland using mainly slow, local trains which stops on every tiny station, sleep in low cost hostels, feed yourself for 32 PLN a day :-) *You don't need to speak Polish - we can try to organize a mixed teams fro both training and expeditions.
If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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Matthew Roth, 23/05/2013 19:45:
Tomasz just published a post on the Wikimedia blog about this: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/23/wikimedia-train-expedition-poland/
Feel free to retweet and share it, if you're into the social networks: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/337595719265439745 https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10151584522723346 https://plus.google.com/u/1/108193079736330787108/posts/M9bB8PDuwCV
Thanks also to Justin Duranboger for the translation to Spanish!
I read it earlier today and I don't understand the instructions, which seem to contradict this:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
[...] If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
Do those emails still count? Where does one add the name in that page, which seems to have only ready-to-go groups?
Nemo
Yes.. Organisers have just created a separate page for this expedition, so please add your name here:
http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiekspedycja_kolejowa_2013/przygotowania
2013/5/23 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
Matthew Roth, 23/05/2013 19:45:
Tomasz just published a post on the Wikimedia blog about this: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/23/wikimedia-train-expedition-poland/
Feel free to retweet and share it, if you're into the social networks: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/337595719265439745 https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10151584522723346 https://plus.google.com/u/1/108193079736330787108/posts/M9bB8PDuwCV
Thanks also to Justin Duranboger for the translation to Spanish!
I read it earlier today and I don't understand the instructions, which seem to contradict this:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
[...] If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
Do those emails still count? Where does one add the name in that page, which seems to have only ready-to-go groups?
Nemo
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OOOOOOOhh yes! I love travel by slow trains and looking at train museums and old workplaces. Are there enough places to sleep along the way or do we need to bring a tent just in case?
On Apr 26, 2013, at 4:19 PM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
Hi,
We are about to organize a wikiexpedition devoted to train infrastructure in Poland. It will be officially co-organised with Polish Railways. Polish Railways will provide us free tickets for traveling across Poland using any trains and special passes to legally enter and photograph rail tracks, workshops, rail yards, cargo railway stations, museums belonging to Polish Railways etc. In order to get the pass it will be obligatory to undergo a special basic one-day railtrack safety training which will be provided for free by Polish Railways employees. Actually we don't know what time it will happen - for sure during summer, but it is actually to negotiate. It is possible to have several 2-4 people teams. The requirements will be just: *being devoted wiki-photographer ready to submit photos to Wikimedia Commons under free licences *being highly crazy about railways stuff - i.e. be ready to travel across Poland using mainly slow, local trains which stops on every tiny station, sleep in low cost hostels, feed yourself for 32 PLN a day :-) *You don't need to speak Polish - we can try to organize a mixed teams fro both training and expeditions.
If there is anyone ready for such a wiki-safari - just drop me an E-mail...
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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Lovely initiative, congrats!
I'd love to live in a place where trains will be more common than cars to do that.
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