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Submitted by mido.arch on Tue, 18/09/2007 - 02:06.
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Hey all,

We're running for the second time in row for hosting Wikimania, The international conference for Wikimedia, the organization behind Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. And we need your help! Bid page

while on our trip to the last install fest, I guess many of you were interested about the idea of hosting Wikimania in Egypt, you can work on it now. Bidding will end on 5 October, organizing such an event will require a large number of people to deal with it, currently we're very few to this. The library of course will offer volunteers but this's not what we're after, we should be a group of Wikipedians or people who really beleive in open source and free knowledege.I invite you all to join us, please add your name, location and that you're willing to help in ".." or just willing to help and be part of the team.

In the next 3 weeks we'll be revising our bid page, enhancing it and adding more relevant information, gathering more people who are really interested in this thing.

And the most important thing we're trying to raise fund for the event from local companies, so far we didn't get the required amount of money. if someone has previous experiences with that, we'll appreciate his/her help. all kinds of experincece will be needed if we won, graphic designers, wiki experts (most will come from Arabic Wikipedia), general coordinators, etc.. so please don't hesitate to join us immediately, for any questions, please use this topic or Mido.architect at gmail dot com

I'm M. Ibrahim or Mido, Admin on Arabic Wikipedia and coordinator for the Wikimania 2008 bid.

Bid page on meta, you can add your name to the contributers section (Please create an account on meta first): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Alexandria

Thanks.

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To dos?!

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Submitted by iMeMo on Tue, 18/09/2007 - 20:20.

i'm in although i have no idea about what you need is there a list of to do stuff?? what do u need exactly ? how can we help ?? we need to know what do u need so we can decide who can help .

Mo'men Azkoul

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To dos

Submitted by mido.arch on Thu, 20/09/2007 - 01:11.

We've nearly finished essential tasks but for the sponsors which we're already working on. for the bid tasks we need the following added to the page:

  • expand city details to include brief paragraph about history of the city, major places, etc. focus on being cosmopolitan city and open to all cultures and it's the world book capital in 2002 (you can start with this and the wikipedia article) this section should not exceed 250 words.
  • The venue section will be handled by the library team.
  • expand the accommodation section to include hotels rates (waiting for the library's special rates for these hotels)
  • check for low air flight costs directly to Alexandria from major cities, currently listed is to the Cairo airport
  • A section entitled “Around the city” listing touristic places and attractions with photos, you can take your own, upload it to commons and use it or use existing free images in there or on flickr (please check the license there).

Please try to pick a task and work on it right away, this should be ready by 22nd Sep. if possible. also fix anything you see wrong, it's a wiki, maybe the syntax is not the same as here but easy, check this cheatsheet. all work at this stage is online, so anyone can contribute. Thanks

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