This is excellent! It's a very useful and reliable source for biographies of current public figures in the Russian-speaking world. Good to hear that it was freed, and good to hear that Wikisource became its new home.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2013/1/30 John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com>: > Forwarding with permission. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Анастасия Львова" <anastasia.lv...@wikimedia.ru> > Date: Jan 30, 2013 4:46 PM > Subject: [cultural-partners] kind pf a partnership: Wikisource saves > Lentapedia > To: "Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination" > <cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch> > Cc: > > Good day, colleagues, > I want to say about our small news: Lenta.ru, one of the most popular > Russian language online resources with over 600 thousand visitors > daily, have developed Lentapedia, an archive about popular news. It > was very popular source for Russian Wikipedia articles, but some time > ago the main Lenta's editor decided to stop updating the project > because of lack of traffic and publish the project under cc-by-sa 3.0. > Some days ago Lenta.ru changed it's design, and there isn't any place > for Lentapedia in it, so we copied all materials from Lentapedia to > Wikisourse; 1993 articles. > > As I said before, it's enough small news, but I hope it will be > interesting there. > Our post about it is there: > http://wikimedia.ru/blog/2013/01/30/wikisource-spasaet-lentapedia/ > > -- > regards, > Lvova Anastasia > _______________________________________________ > cultural-partners mailing list > cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch > https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners > Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for > permission before forwarding emails off-list. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l