[Wikimedia-l] Train Wikiexpedition in Poland

[Matthew Roth]

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 at 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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