[Foundation-l] "Singing Wikipedia"

[Hubert]

I love it, even when I don´t understand one word!

Great Idea!

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Am 04.12.2011 02:04, schrieb Tomasz Ganicz:
> Hi,
>
> Copernicus Sience Center from Warsaw:
>
> http://www.kopernik.org.pl/en/
>
> Has just started a wbesite called "singing Wikipedia"
>
> http://www.famelab.org.pl/
>
> The idea is that anyone can propose any article from Polish Wikipedia
> to be read by one of several Polish celebrities (actors, TV
> journalist, singers etc). They are usually doing this in a funny way.
> Most funny reads are recorder and made available to general public and
> placed in YouTube:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL938BB67F93980477
>
> Wikimedia Polska had nothing in common with this except they asked us
> about legal issues (licence, use of logo etc.). After explanation they
> decided not to use logo of Wikipedia and use only the name in ctiation
> context. I personally believe that it is really good promotion for us
> :-)
>
> The website is 100% non-commercial. The main idea behind is just to
> attract people to science and generally knowledge.
>
> My favorite "singing" is "Seplenienie" ("Lisp") by Borys Szyc:
>
> http://www.famelab.org.pl/#seplenienie
>
> which in fact could be used as a good ilustration of this article :-)
>
>