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Fra: "lennart guldbrandsson" <l_guldbrandsson(a)hotmail.com>
Dato: 01/10/2010 12.31
Emne: [Chapters] Free African biographies
Til: "Chapters mailingslistan" <chapters(a)wikimedia.ch>ch>, "Styrelsen
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Hello,
One of Wikimedia Sverige's biggest commitments every year is the Gothenburg
book fair (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg_Book_Fair), where roughly
100 000 authors, librarians, publishers and the public come together for
four days. This year the theme was African literature, with lots of African
authors and publishers, organized by the Nordic Africa Institute (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Africa_Institute), a part of Uppsala
university.
Lars Aronsson, from Wikimedia Sverige, talked to NAI about their book fair
catalogue "Afrika har ordet"/"Africa speaks", where they presented 65
African authors. He asked them if they would consider releasing the
catalogue under a free license. The director Carin Norberg agreed to put the
text as CC-BY-SA, which makes it compatible with Wikipedia. The images,
unfortunally, could not be released, but Wikimedia Sverige took more than
300 images during the book fair (
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:G%C3%B6teborg_Book_Fair_2010), so
some of the authors have been covered by us. For instance the South African
artist Zapiro,
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Shapiro
A list of the 65 authors can be found here:
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall:Afrika_har_ordet_2010
Hopefully these biographies will serve as an inspiration for other language
versions to write about these authors as well.
And on a even more positive note: The NAI have talked about taking photos of
their own and releasing them under a free license. Let's hope that they do.
Best wishes,
Lennart
Lennart Guldbrandsson, ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige
http://wikimedia.se
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