New subject: English Wikipedia: Five Million Articles

2 Nov 2015

Douglas

I already did that.  I have been re added by someone on your side.  Very irritating.  I
have no idea why I'm even getting these emails - I answered a survey once and now
I'm sent random emails that have nothing to do with me. 

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-------- Original message --------
From: Douglas Scott &lt;douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com&gt; 
Date: 11/02/2015  12:22  (GMT+00:00) 
To: Theresa Hume &lt;theresa.hume(a)wikimedia.org.za&gt; 
Cc: wikimediaza &lt;wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] English Wikipedia: Five Million Articles 

Hi Edward,

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Thanks,

Douglas.

On 2 November 2015 at 14:16, Edward Bennett &lt;bentten.training(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

...
  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 &lt;douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com&gt;
 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.

 ---

 *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.

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 South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
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