Hello all,
For some of you, this may come as news: Since early January this year I have been working on a book about Wikipedia. It is a rather comprehensive book, divided into five parts:
1. What is Wikipedia? 2. How to edit Wikipedia 3. Frequently (and infrequently) asked questions - including a close comparison of Wikipedia and traditional encyclopedias 4. The history of Wikipedia 5. Interviews with among others: Jimmy Wales, Sue Gardner and several influential Swedish contributors
The Swedish title of the book is "Så fungerar Wikipedia", which translates to "How Wikipedia works".
The book is now finished and will premiere at the Gothenburg Book Fair! This means that you will be able to order the book as soon as the Book Fair is opened on the 25th of September. It is sold through a print-on-demand company, called Vulkan, which is also printing Wikimedia Sverige's first WikiReader (about Swedish Birds, see http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Svenska_f%C3%A5glar). The adress for Vulkan is www.vulkan.se.
Every picture in the book is under a free license.
For more information about the book, in Swedish (an English version of the page is forthcoming), see http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A5_fungerar_Wikipedia
In closing, I would like to thank everybody who have helped me with the book, including Arne Klempert, Delphine Ménard, Frank Schulenburg, Jan Ainali, Jimmy Wales, Kurt Jansson, Lars Aronsson, Mathias Schindler, Nina Gerlach, Philipp Birken, and Sue Gardner.
If you have any questions and comments, you can either respond to this email or send it privately to l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com.
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote:
Hello all,
For some of you, this may come as news: Since early January this year I have been working on a book about Wikipedia. It is a rather comprehensive book, divided into five parts:
- What is Wikipedia?
- How to edit Wikipedia
- Frequently (and infrequently) asked questions - including a close
comparison of Wikipedia and traditional encyclopedias 4. The history of Wikipedia 5. Interviews with among others: Jimmy Wales, Sue Gardner and several influential Swedish contributors
The Swedish title of the book is "Så fungerar Wikipedia", which translates to "How Wikipedia works".
The book is now finished and will premiere at the Gothenburg Book Fair! This means that you will be able to order the book as soon as the Book Fair is opened on the 25th of September. It is sold through a print-on-demand company, called Vulkan, which is also printing Wikimedia Sverige's first WikiReader (about Swedish Birds, see http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Svenska_f%C3%A5glar). The adress for Vulkan is www.vulkan.se.
Every picture in the book is under a free license.
For more information about the book, in Swedish (an English version of the page is forthcoming), see http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A5_fungerar_Wikipedia
In closing, I would like to thank everybody who have helped me with the book, including Arne Klempert, Delphine Ménard, Frank Schulenburg, Jan Ainali, Jimmy Wales, Kurt Jansson, Lars Aronsson, Mathias Schindler, Nina Gerlach, Philipp Birken, and Sue Gardner.
If you have any questions and comments, you can either respond to this email or send it privately to l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com.
Best wishes,
Congrats Lennart.
Out of curiosity, is the book under a free licence ? And how much do you sell it ?
Ant
Thanks.
It is published under a CC-by-nc-nd license, with the pictures under various other licenses.
/Lennart
2008/9/14 Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com
Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote:
Hello all,
For some of you, this may come as news: Since early January this year I
have
been working on a book about Wikipedia. It is a rather comprehensive
book,
divided into five parts:
- What is Wikipedia?
- How to edit Wikipedia
- Frequently (and infrequently) asked questions - including a close
comparison of Wikipedia and traditional encyclopedias 4. The history of Wikipedia 5. Interviews with among others: Jimmy Wales, Sue Gardner and several influential Swedish contributors
The Swedish title of the book is "Så fungerar Wikipedia", which
translates
to "How Wikipedia works".
The book is now finished and will premiere at the Gothenburg Book Fair!
This
means that you will be able to order the book as soon as the Book Fair is opened on the 25th of September. It is sold through a print-on-demand company, called Vulkan, which is also printing Wikimedia Sverige's first WikiReader (about Swedish Birds, see http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Svenska_f%C3%A5glar). The adress for Vulkan
is
www.vulkan.se.
Every picture in the book is under a free license.
For more information about the book, in Swedish (an English version of
the
page is forthcoming), see http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A5_fungerar_Wikipedia
In closing, I would like to thank everybody who have helped me with the book, including Arne Klempert, Delphine Ménard, Frank Schulenburg, Jan Ainali, Jimmy Wales, Kurt Jansson, Lars Aronsson, Mathias Schindler, Nina Gerlach, Philipp Birken, and Sue Gardner.
If you have any questions and comments, you can either respond to this
or send it privately to l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com.
Best wishes,
Congrats Lennart.
Out of curiosity, is the book under a free licence ? And how much do you sell it ?
Ant
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Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote:
Thanks.
It is published under a CC-by-nc-nd license, with the pictures under various other licenses.
Awesome!!!
Remind me to buy the book, and buy you at least three drinks whenever we meet accross pints. (Three pints being a close approximation to what the royalty of a commercial book comes to in Finland).
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
In that case I hope we meet soon...
/Lennart
2008/9/15 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com
Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote:
Thanks.
It is published under a CC-by-nc-nd license, with the pictures under
various
other licenses.
Awesome!!!
Remind me to buy the book, and buy you at least three drinks whenever we meet accross pints. (Three pints being a close approximation to what the royalty of a commercial book comes to in Finland).
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote:
The book is now finished and will premiere at the Gothenburg Book Fair! This means that you will be able to order the book as soon as the Book Fair is opened on the 25th of September. It is sold through a print-on-demand company, called Vulkan, which is also printing Wikimedia Sverige's first WikiReader (about Swedish Birds, see http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Svenska_f%C3%A5glar). The adress for Vulkan is www.vulkan.se.
Congratulations, Lennart & Wikimedia Sverige :-)
Lennart, I've asked Patti to see if she can navigate the Vulkan website; if not, she will ask you for help getting copies of both books.
Thanks, Sue
She has already asked me for help. I will take care of that for her and for anybody else that wants copies. Just send me an email and I will order them for you. It seems Vulkan wasn't ready for the international approach I took to selling these books ;-)
Best wishes,
Lennart
2008/9/16 Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org
Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote:
The book is now finished and will premiere at the Gothenburg Book Fair!
This
means that you will be able to order the book as soon as the Book Fair is opened on the 25th of September. It is sold through a print-on-demand company, called Vulkan, which is also printing Wikimedia Sverige's first WikiReader (about Swedish Birds, see http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Svenska_f%C3%A5glar). The adress for Vulkan
is
www.vulkan.se.
Congratulations, Lennart & Wikimedia Sverige :-)
Lennart, I've asked Patti to see if she can navigate the Vulkan website; if not, she will ask you for help getting copies of both books.
Thanks, Sue
--
Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation
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