Before Jovana sends (in Monday) our weekly digest about events related to Wikimedia SCG chapter, I want to say/ask a few things:
- I think that lists Foundation, Wikipedia, Wikinews and email to the Board are good places for such informations. If someone thinks that some list(s)/email(s) should be excluded/included, please, tell us that.
- In the last 7-10 days we had a lot of contacts with media, one rostrum (I think that our dictionaries made correct translation :) this is some kind of lecturer with debate after that) as well as our regular meetings at Sunday with a lot of new people who are interested in developing Wikipedia (in general, Serbian, but others, too) and software for conversion (improvement of Zhengzhu's Chinese and Serbian version and possibility to implement it not only for Serbian version of MediaWiki, but, also for some others with similar needs).
- Thanks to Dragan Ambrozic, our vice president and professional in event making, we have a lot contacts with media. I am surprised with the number of journalists who contacted our PR Jovana and me. In Friday we had 26 new registered users. I looked relations between registered users and users with more then 10 edits and when 26 users register accounts it means that we would have 3 Wikipedians more; if we continue with such progression, we would have 100 new users per month, very soon (to compare: the best month before was August 2005 with 26 new users; also, approximation for December 2005 was that we would have 203 users at all!).
- People outside of the project like our idea very much, many of them are willing to help in different ways. (Finally, we have the article about Jimbo ;) ) And I can say that I am very happy because of recent development: people who are not my close friends are calling me by phone and they are saying "I heard about Wikipedia in the news!".
- It also should be noted that Wikimedia SCG is the first free knowledge organization in Serbia and Montenegro. There are no such organization in Serbia. And in this moment we are covering the hole space related to free knowledge. (There are some organization which promote open content, BUT they are doing that only because it is the new way for getting money from sponsors.)