Fw: Wikipedia

[Kevin Troy]

Hey Ya'll/ Gruess Euch--
The message below was posted to NABOKV-L last week (yes yes I know there's
a lot of cross-posting these days).  It's an interesting project, and
checking it out, I noticed that both the English and German Pynchon
articles are also incomplete -- in English, nothing on either VL, the
short stories, or the essays; in German, nothing on any of the books.
Pynchon-l gets an external link, and Pomona's pages are linked twice, for
some reason.

So now we have something to do with our summer vacations, eh?

Cheers,
Kevin T.

----- Original Message -----
From: <felix.liebau at nexgo.de>
To: <chtodel at cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:15 AM
Subject: Nabokov, Wikipedia

Dear List, I would like to bring Wikipedia your attention. Wikipedia is
a very ambitious project aimed at creating an online encyclopedia in the
form of a Wiki Wiki, which means that everybody is free to create or
edit any article. There are no prerequisites, you can just go ahead and
contribute your knowledge. Contrary to earlier projects, this is dead
serious, many articles are of an amazing quality, and there is very
little vandalism.

There are however many subjects that would deserve more attention, and
Russian literature (as well as Russian history) seems to be one. For
example, the Nabokov-related articles are rather sketchy, there is no
article on the Russian emigration, the article on the Russian civil war
could be overhauled, etc. etc.

I would therefore like to invite you to share your knowledge and
contribute to this amazing project. Although everybody can pick an
article and type right away, it is a good idea to create an account
(again, no prerequisites) and to visit the Welcome page at
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcome,_newcomers  .
Please don´t hesitate to contribute. Thank you and best regards, FL.