From Clovermoss and Pine, writing together for this week:

Thanks to User:Dungodung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dungodung for the Serbian translation of What's making you happy this week?

English Wikipedia passed the 6 million article milestone. Determining the exact 6 millionth article is challenging. A community discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Six_million_articles narrowed the list to a few likely possibilities. There is no tool that currently exists that can determine which article is the 6 millionth. One difficulty in determining the winner is that articles are moved and deleted while others are being created.

On the 18:59 timestamp on 23 February 2020, 15 articles were submitted: Auto-trolling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-trolling, Castle Folds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Folds, Mysore Sand Sculpture Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_Sand_Sculpture_Museum, Egon Hartmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Hartmann, Kalashree Seashell Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalashree_Seashell_Museum, Giovanni Ricci (mathematician) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Ricci_(mathematician), Enno Dirksen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enno_Dirksen, Giovanni Prodi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Prodi, David Notkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Notkin, A. Nico Habermann Award https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Nico_Habermann_Award, Videniškiai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videni%C5%A1kiai, Lidia Kulikovski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidia_Kulikovski, Maria Elise Turner Lauder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Elise_Turner_Lauder, Andrei Bolocan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Bolocan, and Raymonde Verlinden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymonde_Verlinden.

The community decided to celebrate the article for Maria Elise Turner Lauder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Elise_Turner_Lauder, who was a Canadian philanthropist and writer. The article was created by User:Rosiestep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rosiestep.

Rosiestep is well known in the community. She joined Wikipedia in 2007 and was elected an administrator in 2009. She is an co-organizer for WikiConference North America https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_North_America and WikiProject Women in Red https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red, and is a member of the Affiliations Committee https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee. On her user page, she shares that her academic degrees include a Bachelor of Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science and a Master of Business Administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administration. She can communicate in English, Spanish, French, and Serbian.

Maria Elise Turner Lauder (1833-1922), was a Canadian teacher, linguist, and author. She wrote under the pen name Toofie Lauder, and was also known as Maria Elise Turner de Touffe Lauder. Lauder spoke several languages fluently, including Greek and Latin. Lauder was a linguist and she taught at Whitby Ladies' College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Castle_School. She was a prominent member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_Christian_Temperance_Union.Lauder travelled extensively and formed friendships with many notable individuals. She received the honour of a private audience with Queen Margherita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Margherita. Lauder and her son were also presented to the papal court of Pope Leo XIII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIII. Her travelling experiences inspired the authorship of three books: My First Visit to England (1865), In Europe (1877), and Legends and Tales of the Harz Mountains (1881). Lauder also published other works during her lifetime, including songs and verse. Her other works include Evergreen Leaves: Being Notes From My Travel Book (1884), and At Last (1894).

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Remembering a public servant

Jim Lehrer, seen in 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Lehrer_(2011).jpgQuote from Jim Lehrer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer, who was a United States Marine Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps veteran, an author, a longtime news anchor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_anchor of PBS NewsHour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS_NewsHour, and a moderator of numerous debates of candidates for the office of U.S. President. Lehrer passed away peacefully on 23 January 2020. This quote is from a speech that he gave at Harvard University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University:

I am grateful my country forced me to serve my country. Not for my country's sake, but for my own. In that diverse company, I learned to be responsible for others. I learned to be dependent on others. I learned there was more to life than me, me, me, me.

Postscript After this week, User:Pine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pine is taking a break from writing What's making you happy this week? and On the bright side for at least the next few weeks. User:Clovermoss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss plans to continue writing for the aforementioned publications in the meantime, and will continue to send weekly emails to the Wikimedia-I mailing list.