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Year: 2011 Week: 2 Number: 122
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Community ===
[Wikipedia-day] - Once more it is almost the most important holiday of
the year: Wikipedia day. Now Saturday we celebrate the 10th
anniversary of the project. The start of the very first Wikipedia, the
English language Wikipedia.
But this is also a day of celebration for all the other many projects
and language editions who form the Wikimedia-family;
Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity,
Wikispecies, Commons
10 years. 400 million unique visitors a month. 80,000 active volunteer
editors. 17 million articles (wikipedia's only). A very successful
fundraiser ( $US 16 million).
Time to celebrate! - And how to do that? - With a special celebration-wiki;
http://ten.wikipedia.org/
There are many Wikimeets and events world-wide. Check the
celebration-wiki for an event near you. Wikipedia will also come these
day extra in the news so watch those news reports on TV and newspapers
to see what the traditional media write about our project.
=== Wikimedia news ===
[Steward elections] - Call for candidates for the upcoming
steward-election. Stewards perform technical tasks on all Wikimedia
wikis. Sort of über admin.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2011
[Wikimania 2011] - Applications are open until the end of the month
for a subsidy to go to Wikimania 2011 in Israel.
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
=== Quote ===
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge.
That?s our commitment.
Jimmy Wales
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