[Foundation-l] 5th Birthday of the Polish Wikipedia

[Delphine Ménard]

/me hopes for billions more of those birthdays.

Long life etc.

Be good and don't abuse the champagne.

Delphine

On 9/26/06, Łukasz Garczewski <tor at oak.pl> wrote:
> [Argh... Reposting this, since the first mail apparently didn't reach
> the list... :/]
>
> Dear All,
> a quick report from the 5th Birthday of the Polish Wikipedia, which
> took place last Saturday.
>
> We met at the Warsaw School of Economics around 5 p.m. After a brief
> introduction by Justyna (Creative Commons Poland) Jimbo gave his talk
> on Wikipedia and wikis in general, Polish Wikipedia and Wikia Poland.
> After that there was a session of questions and answers (a bit too
> long, perhaps, but quite interesting at times even to a long time
> Wikipedian such as myself).
>
> Next, we move to two very brief presentations by Wikimedia Poland
> members: Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz outlined plwiki's first days and
> history, I talked a bit about the future (as in the future of the
> project and the future moves and goals of WMPL).
>
> After that it was time to... party! We had a beautiful cake (see [1],
> [2]) and champagne (see [3]). There was time for a few interviews and
> some socializing. We also sung "Sto lat" ("Happy birthday").
>
> Later we moved to a nearby pub for even more socializing, this time
> without the media. You know, the usual geeky gathering - linux jokes,
> the latest trolls on wikipl and all that stuff wikipedians like to
> chat about. Alek (CCPL) even got Jimbo to drink something we call
> "wściekły pies" (Polish for "rabid dog" - vodka with raspberry juice).
> Don't worry, Jimmy survived it and only coughed for a little while. ;)
>
> It was a very nice and cheerful event. The only downside was
> attendance - we had thought more people would come. I can only hope that
> next year there will be more interest.
>
> [1] *The* Cake
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:5._urodziny_polskiej_Wikipedii_-_Wikitort_01.JPG>
> [2] Jimbo with *The* Cake
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:5._urodziny_polskiej_Wikipedii_-_Jimbo_Wales_%28krojenie_tortu%29_01.JPG>
> [3] Champagne... and a lot of it
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:5._urodziny_polskiej_Wikipedii_-_Szampany.JPG>
> [4] Wikimedians (and a few CC guys and gals ;))
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Pi%C4%85te_urodziny_pl_wiki_rodzina_wikipedyst%C3%B3w.jpg>
>
> More photos here:
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/5th_birthday_of_Polish_Wikipedia>
>
> --
> Lucas "TOR" Garczewski
> President of Wikimedia Poland
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>


-- 
~notafish