On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 03:33:23PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
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.
It would - go ahead :)
Sean
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