[Foundation-l] New book on Wikipedia - in Swedish! No, wait, two books!

Florence Devouard Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 14 19:00:35 UTC 2008


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:
> 
> 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 at 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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