Hello everyone!

I am writing here because we have a great landmark ahead of us. Namely, Serbian Wikipedia turns 15 years of age in less than two weeks, so that's naturally an important event for both Serbian Wikipedia and Wikimedia Serbia. The birthday is on February 16, but we will be celebrating it on February 19 with a formal event. For the past 15 years, we have been working hard and putting a lot of effort into creating one of the largest South Slavic encyclopedias. Let's celebrate that!

With this in mind, we are organizing various birthday activities. They are the ones which represent the diversity of our vast community, and the impact which we can achieve when we unite in sharing free knowledge. That is why we are now addressing the entire movement, because we want to celebrate this jubilee together and feel that we are all together part of an important story of mankind.

The idea is very simple, it does not take much time, and our community will be encouraged to continue creating free content on Wiki projects. We would like our friends from chapters, thematic organizations and other entities to write the message "Happy birthday to Serbian Wikipedia! from {{{country name}}}," to take pictures with it and put that image in the Serbian Wikipedia 15 category on Wikimedia Commons [1] and social networks with the hashtag #vikipedija15. We will then share it on our social network profiles and finally make a slideshow at the celebration event. Therefore, this message will be a gift to the community from their friends and associates from all over the world. It would be ideal, but not necessary, if you could be photographed next to a particular landmark / symbol of the country which you are coming from.

We hope you will help us surprise our volunteers by showing them how rich and diverse our movement is, and the number of friends around the world with whom they are working on the largest collaborative project. We want to give them encouragement for the next 15 years at least! :)

Thanks in advace, Filip Maljković on behalf of Wikimedia Serbia

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Serbian_Wikipedia_15