Hoi Jay, What I would love is more and better information on what we do to support other languages. In the annual report for instance it says that we support 100 languages. In actual fact it is much more, 298 is the current number for languages and scripts that are supported on Betawiki...

I really want to get into a dialogue with the WMF on how it supports other languages. There is a lot of interest for other languages round about half our traffic is not in English... I spend a lot of energy into supporting other languages and currently I am not impressed by the support given other then the hosting itself. It is also very much that there is nothing in the WMF that supports it. The language committee for instance is ONLY about the support for *new *languages. Thanks, Gerard

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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hey all,

Very pleased to announce the official release of our first-ever Annual Report today.

Hosted on-wiki: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report

And blogged up here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/10/31/wikimedias-first-ever-annual-report/

We'll have lots of time to prep for the next annual report, so please share any feedback or thoughts on how we can make improvements.

Thanks,

-- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609

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2008/10/31 Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org:

Hey all,

Very pleased to announce the official release of our first-ever Annual Report today.

Hosted on-wiki: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report

And blogged up here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/10/31/wikimedias-first-ever-annual-report/

We'll have lots of time to prep for the next annual report, so please share any feedback or thoughts on how we can make improvements.

Hi Jay,

This is a very beautiful document, in design and meaning, and I think it represents Wikimedia really well. I would be really proud to show it to someone and say "I am a part of this".

As a Commoner I am pleased that we have been clear in communicating our milestones. :)

If anything my only complaint would be that I would like to see two or four more pages highlighting the work on the projects. One column for *seven* projects is kind of tragic. Next time ask the community to help write that part?? I am boggling a bit that that didn't happen this time.

From Michael's chair letter:

It would be tragic if, 20 years from now, humanity were still divided into those able to afford edu- cation and those who could not. The idea of universal access to the sum of all human knowledge has been planted in the soil of history. Let us work together in nourishing it, so that it may become a garden.

A last comment...with the donor listings, it may be a nice point to list the number of donors who gave less than $1000 (if not their names :)) as a point about the long tail and how lots of little contributions add up to something significant overall, rather like wiki edits...

cheers Brianna