With great pleasure, I would like to tell you about an announcement that was made just hours ago at the German language Wikipedia mailing list about a three-year-project: The German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Customer Protection [1] is going to fund the improvement of articles in the de-wikipedia that deal with the topic of renewable resources. You will find the announcemend, made by Florian Gerlach of the Nova institute at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikide-l/2007-June/019503.html. The first step of this project will be an assessment of the current articles in that topic. The project site can be found at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Nachwachsende_Rohstoffe The content will strictly adhere the Wikipedia's policies about NPOV, the GFDL license, the encyclopedic tone and so on, the articles will remain open for the public to edit. To my knowledge, this is a worldwide premiere and it is my hope that we will use the experience gained from this project to find new opportunities for supporting Wikipedia and the creation of freely licensed content in general. I would like to ask you to have a close look at this project, to spread the word and to see if anything from this can be applied to other editions of Wikipedia as well. Mathias [1]: http://www.bmelv.de/cln_045/nn_754188/EN/00Home/homepage__node.html__nnn=tr…