<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Dear Wikimedians,</span></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<b><span style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">Wish you and your family a Very Happy and exciting 2011!</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><br>
<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#1F497D"><b>2010 It has been quite a year for Wikipedia and <a href="http://wikimedia.in/" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Wikimedia in India</a>. </b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#1F497D"><i><br></i></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#1F497D"><i>It was a year that saw at least 31 Wikipedia community meetups in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">9 cities</a>. Indian cities Ahmedabad, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata & Mumbai has their first meetups (first documented meetups!). It was a year that saw good participation from <a href="http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Attendees" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Indian wikipedians</a> at Wikimania (Gdansk) and the chapters meeting at <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2010/Participants" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Berlin</a>. It was a year that saw the first ever India community <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">news letter</a> and an <a href="http://thottingal.in/blog/2010/04/17/mlwikioncd/" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">offline CD</a>. It was a year that saw the first Indian join the <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Bishakha_Datta_to_join_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Board of Trustees</a> and an Indian wikipedian getting elected as <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010/votes/Jyothis" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Steward.</a> It was a year that saw the Foundation announce their <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/db/Wikimedia_Five-Year_Targets.pdf" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">focus of India</a> as a geography to grow Wikipedia. It was a year that saw the Foundation approve an India chapter <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Wikimedia_India" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">formally</a>, <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">MOA getting finalized</a> and the launch of the <a href="http://wikimedia.in/" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Wikimedia.in website</a> They year also saw many visits from the foundation - <a href="http://onlygizmos.com/wikipedia-meetup-mumbai-with-jimmy-wales-interview/2010/11/" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Jimmy Wales</a>, <a href="http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/dec/131210-Erik-Moller-Wikipedia-Pune.htm" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Erik Möller</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1617.jpg" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Danese Cooper, Alolita Sharma</a>, and <a href="http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/25/stories/2010092551100200.htm" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Barry Newstead</a> visited many cities in India.</i></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#1F497D" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><i>It was also a year of many <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">project milestones</a>: </i></span></font><span style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><i>(source News on Meta).</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><i><a href="http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%96%E0%AA%AA%E0%AB%83%E0%AA%B7%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%A0" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Gujarati Wikipedia</a> reached 15,000 articles (June 7)</i></span></li>
<li style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><i></i></span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><i><a href="http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Marathi Wikipedia</a> has reached 30,000 articles (Jul 2)</i></span></li>
<li style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><i><a href="http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%DB%81_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Urdu Wikipedia</a> crossed 15,000 articles (Oct 31)</i></span></li>
<li style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#1F497D" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><i><a href="http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8_%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BE" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Malayalam wikipedia</a> cross 15,000 articles (Nov 9)</i></span></font></li>
<li style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#1F497D" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><i><a href="http://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%98%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%81:Main_Page" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Malayalam Wiktionary</a> has reached 60,000 entries (Aug 4). </i></span></font></li>
<li style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125);font-family:arial, sans-serif"><i><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D" target="_blank">Tamil Wikipedia</a> crossed 25,000 articles</i></li>
<li style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125);font-family:arial, sans-serif"><i><a href="http://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D" target="_blank">Tamil Wiktionary</a> entered the top-ten with 1,90,000+ entries.</i></li>
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</i></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#1F497D" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><i></i></span></font><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><i><b>2010 surely has been an eventful year for Wikimedia in India!</b></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks to all Wikimedians in India on behalf of the India chapter team, for their numerous initiatives, projects and support in 2010. </p>
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<font color="#1F497D"><i><b><u>Tenth Anniversary Celebrations in India</u></b></i></font></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#1F497D"><i><br></i></font></div>
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Guess how many Indian cities are celebrating the Tenth Wikipedia anniversary?</div><div>More than 10 cities, As of latest count it is 17!!! That covers 10 states in India.</div><div><br></div><div>7 cities added to the celebration list in the last 48 hours.</div>
<div><br></div></span></span></i></span></i></font></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i>The latest additions being:</i></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Dombivli (Maharashtra)</i></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Kharagpur (West Bengal)</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Jalandar (Punjab)</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>New Delhi </i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Ghaziabad (Uttar pradesh)</i></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)</i></li></ul></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<i>For a complete list of Indian cities or to volunteer help for the tenth anniversary, see the <a href="http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Ten" target="_blank">Tenth Anniversary India coordination page</a>.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<i><br></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">We have another 19 states where we could potentially have celebrations! Send an email if you know a volunteer in any of those states.</p>
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</span></p></div>Arun Ramarathnam<br>On behalf of the Wikimedia India chapter
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