Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that the book about Lech Wałęsa, which was prepared for Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk, has been published at Wikimedia Commons.
The book contains biographies of Lech Wałęsa[1] in 104 languages of the world. Every biography comes from a different language version of Wikipedia. All the text was retrieved at the same moment - On the 1st of March, 2010. The book was prepared by volunteers from the Polish Wikipedia community and the whole book, including the cover, is available under CC-BY-SA 3.0. All the authors are listed on the book's last pages.
During the closing ceremony of Wikimania 2010 the book was shown for the first time in public. And a few days after Wikimania, the President of Gdańsk, Wikimania organizers and Polish Wikipedians gave Lech Wałęsa the first copy of the book[2].
Now the book is available in PDF on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walesa_-_Biographies_in_the_languages....
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa [2] - http://www.gdansk.pl/galeria?c=663
Regards, Leinad
So cool!!! I thought this was just going to include the intro paragraph of each article -- nice to see the full text. What a lovely reuse effort :) Congratulations to all who worked on it.
phoebe
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Daniel ~ Leinad danny.leinad@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that the book about Lech Wałęsa, which was prepared for Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk, has been published at Wikimedia Commons.
The book contains biographies of Lech Wałęsa[1] in 104 languages of the world. Every biography comes from a different language version of Wikipedia. All the text was retrieved at the same moment - On the 1st of March, 2010. The book was prepared by volunteers from the Polish Wikipedia community and the whole book, including the cover, is available under CC-BY-SA 3.0. All the authors are listed on the book's last pages.
During the closing ceremony of Wikimania 2010 the book was shown for the first time in public. And a few days after Wikimania, the President of Gdańsk, Wikimania organizers and Polish Wikipedians gave Lech Wałęsa the first copy of the book[2].
Now the book is available in PDF on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walesa_-_Biographies_in_the_languages....
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa [2] - http://www.gdansk.pl/galeria?c=663
Regards, Leinad
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I just printed out a copy: this is awesome. Is there a POD edition for people who want better binding? --SJ
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:40 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
So cool!!! I thought this was just going to include the intro paragraph of each article -- nice to see the full text. What a lovely reuse effort :) Congratulations to all who worked on it.
phoebe
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Daniel ~ Leinad danny.leinad@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that the book about Lech Wałęsa, which was prepared for Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk, has been published at Wikimedia Commons.
The book contains biographies of Lech Wałęsa[1] in 104 languages of the world. Every biography comes from a different language version of Wikipedia. All the text was retrieved at the same moment - On the 1st of March, 2010. The book was prepared by volunteers from the Polish Wikipedia community and the whole book, including the cover, is available under CC-BY-SA 3.0. All the authors are listed on the book's last pages.
During the closing ceremony of Wikimania 2010 the book was shown for the first time in public. And a few days after Wikimania, the President of Gdańsk, Wikimania organizers and Polish Wikipedians gave Lech Wałęsa the first copy of the book[2].
Now the book is available in PDF on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walesa_-_Biographies_in_the_languages....
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa [2] - http://www.gdansk.pl/galeria?c=663
Regards, Leinad
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frankly, I feel bit triste after reading the pdf
the Chinese version is so tiny, anyway that reflects the goose neck of the development of zh.wikipedia in general
On 26/07/2010, Daniel ~ Leinad danny.leinad@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that the book about Lech Wałęsa, which was prepared for Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk, has been published at Wikimedia Commons.
The book contains biographies of Lech Wałęsa[1] in 104 languages of the world. Every biography comes from a different language version of Wikipedia. All the text was retrieved at the same moment - On the 1st of March, 2010. The book was prepared by volunteers from the Polish Wikipedia community and the whole book, including the cover, is available under CC-BY-SA 3.0. All the authors are listed on the book's last pages.
During the closing ceremony of Wikimania 2010 the book was shown for the first time in public. And a few days after Wikimania, the President of Gdańsk, Wikimania organizers and Polish Wikipedians gave Lech Wałęsa the first copy of the book[2].
Now the book is available in PDF on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walesa_-_Biographies_in_the_languages....
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa [2] - http://www.gdansk.pl/galeria?c=663
Regards, Leinad
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