Happy birthday.
If you read carefully the mail you are pointing to there it says:
"Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix."
But in the list there are 11 languages.
The difference is because it was not the first group of non-English
Wikipedias coming online.
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Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:13:55 -0700
From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias
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Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these
sites were:
catalan.wikipedia.com
chinese.wikipedia.com
esperanto.wikipedia.com
french.wikipedia.com
deutsche.wikipedia.com
hebrew.wikipedia.com
italian.wikipedia.com
japanese.wikipedia.com
portuguese.wikipedia.com
spanish.wikipedia.com
russian.wikipedia.com
(from
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html)
The idea of having Wikipedias in multiple languages came from Jimbo in
March 2001 (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html note that the original German Wikipedia was
actually set up at that
time, making it the second-oldest Wikipedia. Though the idea of using
two-letter domain codes was first raised then, after the above sites
were brought online in May there was further discussion, and the sites
were switched to two-letter codes a few days later:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000132.html.
Happy tenth birthday, Wikipedias! (and many more!) May all of our
language editions flourish.
-- phoebe
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