Hi Pine,
I do a lot of communications as ambassador for the Dutch community. I posted it already in the Dutch central discussion page and to the Dutch Wikimedia mailinglist.
Greetings, Romaine
2014-11-17 23:52 GMT+01:00 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com:
Thanks for this news. I'm forwarding this email by bcc to a Dutch Wikimedian in the hope that they can forward this to the Dutch community.
Pine
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
A local newspaper in the Netherlands had today as headline: Eredocteraat voor Timmermans en Wikipedia
Translated: Honory degree for Timmermans and Wikipedia
- Who is coming to Maastricht?
- Can we organize a wikimeet that day in Maastricht?
Romaine
Rough translation of the newspaper:
Maastricht University (UM) awarded an honorary doctorate to Frans Timmermans and the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. They will be honored for the exceptional contributions they, directly or indirectly, have made to academic education and research.
Commissioner Frans Timmermans is praised for his great contributions to both European and international relations. The American Jimmy Wales Wikipedia has established a platform accessible to everyone, which (in particular) for students not to imagine that it does not exist as infinite source of information. The honorary doctorates will be awarded during the official celebration of
Dies
Natalis, which takes place on 16 January 2015 at Sint Janskerk in Maastricht. Besides Timmermans and Wales, are also academics Michelle Craske (nominated by the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Wolfgang Wahlster (nominated by the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences) awarded an honorary doctorate.
Original in Dutch below:
Eredocteraat voor Timmermans en Wikipedia
De Universiteit Maastricht (UM) reikt een eredoctoraat uit aan Frans Timmermans en de oprichter van Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. Zij worden
gehuldigd
voor de uitzonderlijke bijdragen die zij, direct of indirect, hebben geleverd aan academisch onderwijs en onderzoek.
Eurocommissaris Frans Timmermans wordt geprezen om zijn grote bijdragen
aan
zowel Europese als internationale relaties. De Amerikaan Jimmy Wales
heeft
met Wikipedia een voor iedereen toegankelijk platform opgericht, dat (in het bijzonder) voor studenten niet meer weg te denken is als oneindige
bron
van informatie. De eredoctoraten worden uitgereikt tijdens de officiële viering van de Dies Natalis, die plaatsvindt op 16 januari 2015 in de
Sint
Janskerk te Maastricht. Naast Timmermand en Wales worden tevens academici Michelle Craske (genomineerd door de Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience) en Wolfgang Wahlster (genomineerd door de Faculty of Humanities and Sciences) onderscheiden met een eredoctoraat. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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