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From: WikimediaZA [mailto:wikimediaza-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Edward
Bennett
Sent: 02 November 2015 02:16 PM
To: theresa.hume(a)wikimedia.org.za
Cc: wikimediaza
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] English Wikipedia: Five Million Articles
Dear *Douglas Scott*.
I have requested to be removed from the mailing list.
Please action ASAP.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
Below is a short blurb I have written and put on the Wikimedia ZA
website about the five millionth article on Wikipedia that was created
today. I want to share it with all of you before I share it with the
media tomorrow morning. Please let me know if you have any questions
or comments (or
improvements) about it. There are links to the sources where I got
the figures mentioned in the statement on the version on the Wikimedia
ZA website <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Main_Page>. As you will be
able to tell a large focus of the statement is to call for more South
Africans to get involved in editing Wikipedia.
Apologies for the short notice on this, I only saw the message about
the 5 millionth article creation a few hours ago.
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*English Wikipedia: five million articles*
Today, 1 November 2015, the 5 millionth article was created on English
language Wikipedia about Persoonia terminalis -an Australian shrub- by
long time Wikipedia editor Cas Liber. For more information about this
momentous event in the Wikipedia community see the press statement by
the Wikimedia Foundation at the link here.
The 5,000,000 articles on English language Wikipedia would not have
been possible without the 126,672 active editors and 1,329
administrators who have collectively made over 790,000,000 edits on
the wiki. Currently Wikipedia is the 7th most popular website on the
internet with only Google, Facebook, YouTube, Baidu (a Chinese search
engine), Yahoo, and Amazon beating the online encyclopaedia in the
rankings. According to Wiki Project South Africa there are just over
20,000 articles on English language Wikipedia about the country.
Afrikaans language Wikipedia currently has
37,534 articles with 163 active editors and 11 administrators. Other
South African language Wikipedia's are much smaller and in great need
of an active editing community with languages such as North Sotho
(2,687 articles), Sesotho (292 articles), Zulu (696 articles), Xhosa
(417 articles), Venda (186 articles), and Tsonga (281 articles) having
a Wikipedia in their respective languages. We would like to encourage
all South Africans to contribute more to Wikipedia by editing
articles, especially if they are in one of the less active language
Wikipedias or about South African content or African content
generally. There is a need for more editors from South Africa to help add content to
Wikipedia.
Best regards,
Douglas.
--
Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
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