Hello,
Today the World Esperanto Congress at Beurs WTC, Rotterdam, ended. Following some notes about the Wikipedia activities:
- Everyone of the 1800 congress participants had a flyer about Esperanto Wikipedia (and Wikimedia) in his or her congress materials. - A session on Monday had been put into a room too small (for 50 people); because to that, a second session was given to Wikipedia at Friday, with 70 attendants. We talked about the basics of Wikipedia and Wikimedia, gave a practical impression, answered questions and showed the Jimmy Wales fundraising video 2007 with Esperanto subtitles. - At Esperantology Conference, I lectured about Wikipedia in small or weak languages. - Other Wikipedians organizing our sessions were Yves Nevelsteen and Beatrice Allée; I have met for about 10 active Esperanto Wikipedians I know. - Universal Esperanto Association (UEA) supported us in several ways. - I caught some testimonials from people famous in the Esperanto world, like former UEA president Humphrey Tonkin (Hartford), professor of English renaissance literature, John Wells (UCL), professor of phonetics, and the head of Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik, Detlev Blanke (Humboldt-Universität Berlin).
Info (in Esperanto) and photographs: http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedio:Vikipedio_en_UK
Kind regards, Ziko van Dijk