You need to admit that "Wikipedia" is a funny name. <br><br>Maybe not for us. Not anymore, years editing Wikipedia make we have others feelings for the name, but for a newcomer it was, and still are, a very strange and funny name. <br clear="all">
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<div>This "website with a funny name" bit - we're sure that works?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Moka Pantages <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpantages@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">mpantages@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Hi, all.<br><br>In addition to the advisory here:<br><br>We wanted to provide you with a draft of the press release we will<br>
send to press on January 13 630PM UTC. We will send an updated<br>version which will include quotes form Sue and Jimmy then. Like the<br>advisory, you are free to use however you like. You can add local<br>information, take out information or use it as it is.<br>
<br>How to use it: I think the best thing to do is start translating it<br>now. Then, when we send you the final with Jimmy and Sue's quotes on<br>January 13, it will allow you to translate those quickly and send to<br>
press then.<br><br>To localize it further, you can include how many events are happening<br>in your region and include details about them. If you participated in<br>the fundraiser this year, you can insert information about how much<br>
you raised locally.<br><br>If you have questions about how to localize, let me know and we can<br>work on it together.<br><br>--<br>Cheers,<br>Moka<br><br>Moka Pantages<br><br><br>San Francisco, January 15, 2011 -- On this day ten years ago, a<br>
website with a funny name invited people everywhere to come together<br>to create a free encyclopedia. The initial results were underwhelming.<br>The article "Astronomer" simply said: "Scientist whose area of<br>
Research is Astronomy." Sweden: "Country in Northern Europe.<br>Inhabitants are called Swedes. Language spoken is Swedish. Capital is<br>Stockholm." Physics: "Physics is a very broad subject."<br>
<br>Following these humble beginnings, Wikipedia grew quickly, and 1,000<br>articles were written in less than a month. Over the next five years,<br>many new language versions were launched, and Wikipedia began to<br>surpass traditional reference sources in breadth and depth. The secret<br>
to its success: anyone can edit any article. In January 2006,<br>Wikipedia volunteer Gareth Owen wrote on his user page: "The problem<br>with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it's a<br>total disaster."<br>
<br>Wikipedia is now consulted by more than 400 million people every<br>month. It provides instant access to high quality and in-depth<br>information, free of charge and free of advertising. In the last<br>decade, a vast and unique global volunteer community has come together<br>
to create more than 17 million articles in 270 languages, advancing<br>the cause of free knowledge for every person on the planet.<br><br>Today, January 15, the Wikipedia community is coming together in<br>almost 300 locations all over the planet to celebrate the 10th<br>
anniversary of the free encyclopedia. From a conference in New York to<br>a concert in Prague, from the launch of a new school project in<br>Nairobi to a museum bootcamp in Amsterdam, from a beer-meet in<br>Bucharest to a film screening in Tel Aviv, the events are organized by<br>
volunteers and Wikimedia chapters, as well as independent supporters.<br>The events are open to participation by anyone and reflect the<br>diversity of the community.<br><br>Wikipedia is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a charitable<br>
non-profit organization established by Wales in 2003. It is entirely<br>supported by donations, and just completed the most successful<br>fundraiser in its history, with more than 500,000 individual donations<br>totaling more than $16 million.<br>
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