lakhs, which is about 33% of the total cost.
Yohann Thomas
yohannvt(a)gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
I've been on a mountaneering expedition myself (Nandad Devi 7817m),
1993 and love mountains (see
https://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/sarson-patal/).
I agree that we need good images to cover mountains in India. However,
I cannot see how funding an expedition can be justified from WMF
funds. Costs related to photography could perhaps be justified but not
a complete expedition costing Rs 4.6 lakh rupees or so! It may be
cheaper to pay photographers to surrender copyrights.
Imho images of mountains, passes & biodiversity while required are not
so vital as to necessitate such expenditure. We need instead to
interact with mountaineers & ask them to donate specific images of
encyclopedic value needed for articles.
I'd love to see any links to discussions where the community has been
informed about Wikipedia Treks Mountains as such. Till now, I have
never heard of it.
AshLin
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Santanu Chandra <santanuc4(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear my fellow Wikipedians,
Greetings from Kolkata, India.
I am pleased to inform you that we are going to organize a expedition
project “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal” under “Wikipedia Treks Mountain
“in
September 2015.
This is a high-altitude trekking expedition from Gangotri to Badrinath in
the Garhwal Himalayan region of India, targeting all language editions of
Wikipedia, Commons, Wikspecies, Wikivoyage and other WMF projects.
The overall purpose of Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal is to increase the
material related to Himalayan Range with a free license in Wikimedia
Commons
and improve the quality and increase the amount
of articles about
diversifying Himalayan mountain range and other respective variety in
different languages in Wikipedia. Reaching out to the majority of
Himalayan
mountain range during this trekking program will
not only raise awareness
among various community chapters, but also motivate them to contribute to
the Wikimedia projects and organize this kind of trekking expedition in
future.
I just need an endorsement from all of you for this unique project
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Sujay25/Wikipedia_Treks_Kalindi_…
Feel free to discuss about the project in the discussion page.
Thanks in advance,
With warm regards,
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Santanu Chandra
(Schwiki)
Skype: Santanu731
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