So cool!!! I thought this was just going to include the intro paragraph of each article -- nice to see the full text. What a lovely reuse effort :) Congratulations to all who worked on it.
phoebe On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Daniel ~ Leinad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm pleased to announce that the book about Lech Wałęsa, which was > prepared for Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk, has been published at Wikimedia > Commons. > > The book contains biographies of Lech Wałęsa[1] in 104 languages of > the world. Every biography comes from a different language version of > Wikipedia. All the text was retrieved at the same moment - On the 1st > of March, 2010. The book was prepared by volunteers from the Polish > Wikipedia community and the whole book, including the cover, is > available under CC-BY-SA 3.0. All the authors are listed on the book's > last pages. > > During the closing ceremony of Wikimania 2010 the book was shown for > the first time in public. And a few days after Wikimania, the > President of Gdańsk, Wikimania organizers and Polish Wikipedians gave > Lech Wałęsa the first copy of the book[2]. > > Now the book is available in PDF on Wikimedia Commons: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walesa_-_Biographies_in_the_languages_of_the_world_(Wikimania_2010).pdf. > > [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa > [2] - http://www.gdansk.pl/galeria?c=663 > > Regards, > Leinad > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
