[Foundation-l] First use/contribution by Canadians of Wikipedia
Tim Starling
tstarling at wikimedia.org
Wed Feb 20 09:34:29 UTC 2008
Mike Godwin wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> In order to pursue our trademark registration in Canada, we would like
> to document the earliest uses of Wikipedia by Canadians. Our Canadian
> staff members (Sue Gardner and Jay Walsh) believe the first Canadian
> uses of Wikipedia date back near the origins of
> Wikipedia itself. Considering that Wikipedia started in early 2001,
> this should mean that by early 2002 there was significant Canadian
> use of the English-language Wikipedia project. I assume there was
> also early use of the French-language Wikipedia project by French
> Canadians -- that would also help us here.
>
> Does anyone here have any thoughts about how we might document the
> (likely) fact that Canadians were engaged with Wikipedia early on?
>
No doubt our good friend [[User:24.150.61.63]] will be happy to help you
out ;)
-- Tim Starling
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