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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
