Tron Øgrim
Tron Øgrim [ tɾun øgɾim ] (born June 27, 1947 in Oslo , Norway ; † May 23, 2007 in Oslo) was a Norwegian journalist, author and politician. From 1965 to 1973 he was active in the Socialist Youth Union (later: Red Youth), and from 1973 to 1984 he was a central figure in the Communist Labor Party . Øgrim wrote several political works as well as some science fiction novels. What was particularly striking about his style was that even in cases where standardized Bokmål would have been appropriate, he communicated in a non-standardized East Oslo dialect.
Politics and journalism
Øgrim was one of the most influential figures in the Norwegian Marxist-Leninist movement in the 1960s and 1970s . He was one of the founders of the Norwegian Communist Party, which followed the policy of the Chinese Communist Party . Tron was also one of the main people responsible for founding the newspaper Klassekampen and in the October publishing house .
After devoting himself to journalism and leaving politics after the 1980s, Øgrim had a technology column in the Norwegian edition of PC-Welt . Here, too, he stood out with his working class dialect. He also wrote science fiction novels under the pseudonym Eirik Austey .
Tron Øgrim was one of the early proponents of the Internet in Norway and regularly lectured across Norway. As early as 1995 he urged the Norwegian Parliament to set up an Internet presence, claiming that a democratic IT policy could not exist without politicians. Øgrim was a strong advocate of the open source movement . In his book Kvikksolv , Tron described Linux as "applied communism". Tron was also instrumental in the Leftist Trainspotters Internet newsgroup , where he published thousands of articles, many of them on political developments in Nepal .
Esperanto movement
Although he was a long-time member of the Norwegian Esperanto League , he never accepted any formal position in the organization. Tron Øgrim was known in the Esperanto movement for his radio show Drømmen om den fullkomne språk (The dream of a perfect language). Beginning in 1989, the program addressed linguistic philosophy and planned or constructed languages such as Esperanto or Volapük . He attended the international Esperanto Congress regularly and was widely known to be affable and learned, with a healthy dose of self-criticism.
Work at Wikipedia
Tron Øgrim became a member of Wikipedia in December 2005 when offensive comments about one of his colleagues surfaced on Norwegian Wikipedia. After this topic was off the table, in 2006 Øgrim devoted himself mainly to the topic of constructed languages. In the fall of 2006 he changed his focus to Nepal in general and wrote in particular about the history of communism in Nepal in detail. Øgrim was known in the Norwegian wiki community for his often very long articles on sometimes obscure topics. However, he also maintained smaller wikis and followed their progress. He published news about milestones in the Norwegian Wikipedia Village Pump and participated in the Wikimedia News.
Norwegian computer science lecturer Gisle Hannemyr remembers Øgrim as one of the most active Norwegian Wikipedians who selected Norwegian Wikipedia as a knowledge dissemination platform. In addition to his favorite topics Nepal and planned languages, he wrote many other articles on other topics. Hannemyr claimed that he was Norway's first blogger with his page Under en stein i skogen ('Under a stone in the forest'). His website archives 107 of his articles written in the East Oslo dialect. Hanneymyr also added that Øgrim was definitely a person who understood how technology changes society.
Tron Øgrim was extremely important to the Norwegian Wikipedia society, and he also gave frequent press interviews on Wikipedia. He was lecturing on Wikipedia when Jimmy Wales , the founder of Wikipedia, visited Norway in May 2006 . When journalists made him aware of the problem of the often inaccurate information on Wikipedia, Øgrim replied that this could also be an advantage, as Wikipedia forces everyone to not just accept their information, but to check it. He also pointed out that this problem of questioning information sources also exists in the Norwegian school system.
After his death, in honor of his work at Wikipedia, the Norwegian Wikipedia logo was set to half-mast for one day, as reported by several Norwegian newspapers.
death
Øgrim was found dead by one of his three daughters on May 23, 2007 in Oslo. The likely cause of death was a heart attack. At the memorial event, u. a. his younger brother Leikny Øgrim and the secretary of the Norwegian Esperanto League Douglas Draper .
bibliography
- Marxisms - vitenskap eller åpenbaringsreligion? (1979)
- Den vestlige maoismens sammenbrudd og krisa i AKP (ml) (1982)
- Tyskeren mot Stretermish (1985), as Eirik Austey
- Grisen for July Harde tider på vei i det rike Vest-Europa (1985)
- På sporet etter det ukjente dyret (1990), as Eirik Austey
- Fallet (1990), as Eirik Austey
- Blått glass (1991), as Eirik Austey
- Akersgata og det bloodige barnet (1993)
- Help for a generation of kvikksølv! Løgnaktige spådommer om datarevolusjonen, verden, Norge og deg (1997)
- Tron Øgrim hits 10 sportsgærninger (1998)
- Help for the generation of kvikksølv: åssen IT forandrer verden and livet (2000)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yahoo! Groups. Retrieved September 9, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen, https://wayback.archive.org/web/20120210214356/http://www.esperanto.no/aktuelt/arkiv/20070602_tron.shtml (Norwegian)
- ↑ Nepal's communistiske parti (maoistisk) in the Norwegian-language Wikipedia - an example from Tron Øgrim's article on Nepal.
- ^ Wikimedia News at Wikimedia
- ^ Deceased Wikipedians in the English language Wikipedia
- ↑ a b Elina Lønna: La grunnlaget for ml ( Memento from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Norwegian) obituary in Klassekampen, May 25, 2007, accessed March 20, 2008
- ↑ Steinen.net (Norwegian) Tron Øgrim's collected articles
- ↑ Jan Omdahl. Kudos til nettvennen Øgrim ( Memento from June 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in Dagbladet, May 25, 2007, last accessed on June 2, 2007.
- ↑ Torstein Brattset Drabløs: Tron Øgrim er død in Dagbladet, May 24, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Øgrim, Tron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Austey, Erik (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian journalist, author and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 2007 |
| Place of death | Oslo |