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I was sure I'd seen this on the mailing lists before, but I couldn't find it on a quick search (which is odd - I'm sure I heard a week ago)
It appears the Esperanto Wikipedia is on a stamp. Well, Esperanto is on the stamp; a chunk of the text from [[eo:L. L. Zamenhof]] is used as a sort of background illustration.
Colour image: http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/stamps/jrst0399.jpg Detailed description: http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/stamps/jrst0399e.jpg Brief discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28news%29
This is quite a delightful discovery; it isn't clear why our text is used, but it must be a good motive, and it's certainly a somewhat unusual bit of recognition :-)
Congratulations to the eo.wp community - from a glance at their discussion forums last night I didn't see any obvious keywords to suggest they've noticed yet, so someone more competent than I may like to make sure they know...
Andrew Gray wrote:
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I was sure I'd seen this on the mailing lists before, but I couldn't find it on a quick search (which is odd - I'm sure I heard a week ago)
It appears the Esperanto Wikipedia is on a stamp. Well, Esperanto is on the stamp; a chunk of the text from [[eo:L. L. Zamenhof]] is used as a sort of background illustration.
Colour image: http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/stamps/jrst0399.jpg Detailed description: http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/stamps/jrst0399e.jpg Brief discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28news%29
Hmm, I didn't see a GFDL anywhere. On the back, in very small print maybe? :-)
We should tell the Israelis we'll overlook this little mistake in return for a free license for all of Israel's stamp images...
Stan
Stan Shebs wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
[copied to foundation-l and wikipedia-l; please note this when replying]
I was sure I'd seen this on the mailing lists before, but I couldn't find it on a quick search (which is odd - I'm sure I heard a week ago)
It appears the Esperanto Wikipedia is on a stamp. Well, Esperanto is on the stamp; a chunk of the text from [[eo:L. L. Zamenhof]] is used as a sort of background illustration.
Colour image: http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/stamps/jrst0399.jpg Detailed description: http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/stamps/jrst0399e.jpg Brief discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28news%29
Hmm, I didn't see a GFDL anywhere. On the back, in very small print maybe? :-)
Canadian stamps at least have copyright notices. :-)
We should tell the Israelis we'll overlook this little mistake in return for a free license for all of Israel's stamp images...
Make sure this also applies to the tabs, since these are a unique feature of Israeli stamps.
This is the beginning of a whole new subject for topical (thematic) collectors.
Ec
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