Congratulations to Wikimedia South Africa! Thanks for all of the hard work you all did to get started.

Look forward to partnering with you to build a strong community of Wikimedia contributors in South Africa! Warmest wishes, Barry

Barry Newstead Wikimedia Foundation

-----Original message----- From: Lourie Pieterse louriepieterse@yahoo.com To: WikimediaZA wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, Mar 27, 2011 09:44:07 GMT+00:00 Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia ZA APPROVED!

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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Lourie Pieterse louriepieterse@yahoo.comwrote:

The chapter just got approved by the WMF!

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Wikimedia_South_A...

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That's great news!

Next steps: get Section 21 company registered; get a program of activities under way.

Congratulations to all of you who have put in so much effort to get us to this point!

-- David Richfield e^(πi)+1=0