[Foundation-l] Announcing a great project within the German language Wikipedia

[Mathias Schindler]

On 6/25/07, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:

> You will find the announcemend, made by Florian Gerlach of the Nova
> institute at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikide-l/2007-June/019503.html.

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/91733 is a translation of
the article that appeared at heise.de this morning, containing more
information about the project.

"German Wikipedia receives state funding

For the first time, the German edition of the open Internet
encyclopedia Wikipedia will be receiving state funding. Germany will
be setting aside part of its budget to improve information about
renewable resources in Wikipedia. Over the next few years, several
hundred articles will be written on this issue."