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

[Lennart Guldbrandsson]

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 at 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:
> >
> > 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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-- 
Lennart Guldbrandsson, chair of Wikimedia Sverige and press contact for
Swedish Wikipedia // ordförande för Wikimedia Sverige och presskontakt för
svenskspråkiga Wikipedia