To all Wikimedians near and far -

today is the official launch date of the first Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week. We will try to do something important which affects the success of Wikimedia and its projects every week. This week, participating Wikimedians join forces to build the MediaWiki handbook in multiple languages on Meta.

The current collaboration of the week is featured on the community portals or other exposed pages of the participating wikis, which at the present time are Wikipedias in English, German, Spanish, Sicilian, Norsk (nynorsk), and Chinese. If you haven't already, please promote this idea on your local project and add your wiki to the list:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_COTW#Participating_wikis

Next week's COTW is decided on:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_COTW#Candidates

The current collaboration on the MediaWiki help is coordinated on this page:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_COTW/Help

(Please help to translate these pages!)

Hopefully, the Wikimedia COTW will raise awareness of Wikimedia, bring our projects closer together and, most importantly, help to get things done which need to be done.

I invite you to join the first COTW and help to make it a success.

All best,

Erik