[Foundation-l] (Japanese) Wikipedia won "Web of the year" in Japan

[Shun Fukuzawa]

Brian,

Thank you for your cooperation. I'll tell this to Japanese contributers.

Brian McNeil wrote:
> I have forwarded this message onto Wikinews-l. If you have any Japanese
> contributors that want to work on doing an article for en.wikinews I'd be
> delighted to help out, polish English, and put them on the right track.
> 
> Just tell them to drop me a mail or leave a note on my talk and dive in and
> start writing. I'll be stuck using Google or Babelfish to translate any
> Japanese sources (which always gives you some "interesting" turns of
> phrase).
> 
> We can then put that on our wikinewsreports blog which Google news picks up.
> 
> Oh, and as an aside I'm expecting a new report from David Shankbone in the
> next day or so. Yesterday the gaggle of technology journalists he's with met
> Shimon Perez, so I'm interested to see what - other than photos - we get
> from that.
> 
> 
> Brian McNeil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Shun Fukuzawa
> Sent: 21 December 2007 10:58
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] (Japanese) Wikipedia won "Web of the year" in
> Japan
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Florence Devouard wrote:
>> Shun Fukuzawa wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Japanese Wikipedia won the first prize of "Web of the year" in Japan!
>>> Congratulation!
>>> http://woy2007.sbcr.jp/ (Japanese page)
>>> # Sadly, they don't make English page :(
>>>
>>> We won the prize last year also, this is for 2nd straight year.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
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>> Very cool !!!
>>
>> Perhaps a little bit of promotion would be nice ? Mention in the 
>> Wikimedia Foundation news ? Press release ?
>>
> Fortunately, we don't promote Wikipedia in Japan. It became popular 
> naturally in these years.
> 
> And please write a news about this prize.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
>> Ant
>>
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