August 7-8 Hłybokaje branch of the NGO “Belarusian Association of Journalists” hosted guests. The current corporate festival brought together more than 40 participants and left his mark not only in their memory on the flash drive and digital cameras, but also in Wikipedia.

The home team is headed by Tatyana Smotkina carefully prepared to show your favorite city well, and getting to know them to get a really comprehensive: from above and from below and from within. Local historians Vladimir Skrabatun and Yuri Kavbasich BAJ group held in the city center, telling about its history and its outstanding fellow countrymen. And in the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (originally – the Catholic Church of the Carmelite Order) offers even allowed to go down into the ancient cellars and climb the tower.

Familiarity with Hłybokaje and continued while working in teams – each of them was given the task to write a Wikipedia article on a specific topic: the “Cherry Festival” and Breeder Boleslav Lapyre, about graves and monuments Munchausen, on Napoleon in the Hłybokaje, a local arboretum and newspaper "Volnaje Hłybokaje".

First, a master class from the organization “Phalange”: coach explained the technical aspects of the case and told what criteria will evaluate the work “disciples”. Reporters responsible approached the matter and really “dig deeper”, leaving six full Wikipedia articles – the best gratitude for the hospitality of the Hłybokaje inhabitants.

In the evening, the guests moved to the farmsteads in the village Vaładźkova, where they awaited a cool lake and then – dinner, campfire, romantic Zmitser Vaitsyushkevich, dance master class and fiddle tune and a lot of stars in the August sky clean.

The next day, the journalists had breakfast, to compete in a little fishing, darts, volleyball and went to the teams preparing presentations. In spite of the anomalous heat, many presentations of an extremely creative and energetic.

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