User:Olag
We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. [...] You must be, or you wouldn't be here.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Olag måste med lag rättas
— Swedish wisdom from Grubb's Book of Proverbs, 1665.
Encyclopedia of Babel
[edit]I'm back to Wikipedia more often, and after having edited quite some time almost exclusively in the German project, e.g. I started over 50 new articles or was awarded the "excellent" badge together with User:Pass3456 in 2010 for our revision of the German version of Chicago Boys, I'd like to do some multilingual work on the en, es, pt, fr versions of Wikipedia as well, especially in the areas of law, politics, arts, literature and the environment. Translate a bit, compare a bit and maybe coordinate a bit. It is enriching and at the same time redundant that these parallel linguistic worlds exist and it would be nice to network them better. Why not hold a Zoom meeting between the main authors for a topic involving the various Wikipedia language projects? Has that already happened?
And - as I am not a native speaker (although I have extensively published in English) - please feel free to correct me, I will be grateful :)
- The holder of this account also sometimes appeared as User:Olaf_Dilling, without concealing his identity with the pseudo Olag.
Current hobbies and interests
[edit]- Biographies of living artists, writers and cultural workers in general, e.g. planning to write about Irene Marques, a Luso-Canadian author (in the German project, about Berit Glanz, Astrid Susanna Schulz and Heike Gallmeier, see [1]
- Lusophone culture, MPB, literature
- Contemporary theater, especially post-dramatic theater, currently e.g. Rimini Protokoll
- Philosophy, Pierre Charbonnier (new article)
- Environmental and transportation law and policy
Outside Wikipedia about Wikipedia (in German)
[edit]- Tristan Fiedler: “Freies, demokratisches Wissen für alle: Warum Wikipedia besser ist als ihr Ruf ist” in Business Insider vom 07.02.2021 with short interview passages as Olaf Dilling
- Wissensallmende oder Werbeplattform? Wikipedia am Scheideweg zwischen Commoning und Kommerzialisierung, in: Schläppi, Daniel; Gruber, Malte, Von der Allmende zur Share Economy: Gemeinbesitz und kollektive Ressourcen in historischer und rechtlicher Perspektive (Beiträge zur Rechts-, Gesellschafts- und Kulturkritik), Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2018, 191-210
- Persönlichkeitsschutz und Selbstregulierung in der Wikipedia. In: Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht. 2013, pp. 380-389 [2] (for a fee or upon personal request)