Re: [Foundation-l] First-ever Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

-- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609 On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:00 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi Jay, > What I would love is more and better information on what we do to > support > other languages. In the annual report for instance it says that we > support > 100 languages. In actual fact it is much more, 298 is the current > number for > languages and scripts that are supported on Betawiki... > > I really want to get into a dialogue with the WMF on how it supports > other > languages. There is a lot of interest for other languages round > about half > our traffic is not in English... I spend a lot of energy into > supporting > other languages and currently I am not impressed by the support > given other > then the hosting itself. It is also very much that there is nothing > in the > WMF that supports it. The language committee for instance is ONLY > about the > support for *new *languages. > Thanks, > Gerard > > > http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org > wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> Very pleased to announce the official release of our first-ever >> Annual >> Report today. >> >> Hosted on-wiki: >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report >> >> And blogged up here: >> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/10/31/wikimedias-first-ever-annual-report/ >> >> We'll have lots of time to prep for the next annual report, so please >> share any feedback or thoughts on how we can make improvements. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Jay Walsh >> Head of Communications >> WikimediaFoundation.org >> +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ >> foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l