Hello,
A useful element for a leaflet or booklet are short bios of
Wikipedians, to show what kind of people actually contribute. For
example, in my prototype German booklet I present Dr. Josef Winiger
form Switzerland, a philosopher and translator of fictional
literature. His PhD thesis was about the famous 19th century thinker
Ludwig Feuerbach. He is also main author of the article "Ludwig
Feuerbach", and for that he was awarded in 2007 with the
Zedler-Medaille of Wikimedia Deutschland and the Akademie der
Wissenschaften und Literatur (Mainz).
Another one is 15 year old user "Suedwester93" from Münster who is
interested in the history of German resistence, believes that India is
the coming super power and that Loriot is the greatest comedian of all
times. He wrote the articles "Deutsche Botschaft London" and "Salomon
Blumenau".
You see, such short bios include something interesting, something that
makes people curious (a 15 year old encyclopedian? let's have a look
at that articles!). They link the notion "Wikipedia" positively with
real (even if anonymous) persons.
Would it be a good idea to collect such bios at Meta-Wiki, in the
original language and also in English? At the moment, I am looking for
some bios about Wikipedians from other Wikipedias than the German one.
Kind regards
Ziko
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Ziko van Dijk
NL-Silvolde