[Foundation-l] Funny thing

[Brian McNeil]

Wikinews has also seen the Polish edition do quite well. They've done deals
with a few local media orgs to get stuff and share what they write. The site
sits - consistently - higher in the rankings for Polish than the en.wn site
does in its language and I believe we have at least one accredited reporter
on the site. Both Polish Wikipedia and Wikinews deserve a pat on the back.
Getting people to use them in novel ways is just more publicity for
something that strikes a chord with so many people from different countries.


Brian McNeil

-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Ganicz
Sent: 26 January 2008 23:22
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: [Foundation-l] Funny thing

Jaroslaw Lipszyc, a poet from Poland, has just published a book of
poems which are created from selected sentences from Polish
Wikipedia's articles.

As he has written in the preface of the book:

"Nie jestem autorem tej książki. Nie napisałem ani jednego ze słów,
które w niej przeczytacie. Ta książka ma setki autorów, a ich listę
znajdziecie gdzieś pod koniec. Są na niej imiona i nazwiska,
pseudonimy, numery IP. Za tymi nazwami nie zawsze skrywają się ludzie.
Niektóre są oznaczeniami botów - małych, sprytnych programów
komputerowych. Wszystkie te słowa pochodzą z Wikipedii."

"I am not an author of this book. I have not written a word, you can
read. This book has houndreds of authors and their list can be found
at the end of this book. There are real names, nicknames and IPs.
Under these names there are not always humans. Some of them are the
names of bots - a tiny, smart computer programes. All the words in
this books comes from Wikipedia".

Of course, this book is under GNU FDL licence :-)

See:

http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/KP-w-mediach/Wiersz-Lipszyca-w-Wyborczej.htm
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(in Polish only)

-- 
Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek
http://www.poli.toya.net.pl
http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html
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