[Foundation-l] First-ever Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

[Jay Walsh]

This is a good point, Gerard.  We were chapters/people/foundation  
focussed this time around, but I think there will be a nice way to  
spend a few pages on the breadth of languages covered in the next  
version.

Thanks!

-- 
Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609

On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:00 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> Hoi Jay,
> What I would love is more and better information on what we do to  
> support
> other languages. In the annual report for instance it says that we  
> support
> 100 languages. In actual fact it is much more, 298 is the current  
> number for
> languages and scripts that are supported on Betawiki...
>
> I really want to get into a dialogue with the WMF on how it supports  
> other
> languages. There is a lot of interest for other languages round  
> about half
> our traffic is not in English... I spend a lot of energy into  
> supporting
> other languages and currently I am not impressed by the support  
> given other
> then the hosting itself. It is also very much that there is nothing  
> in the
> WMF that supports it. The language committee for instance is ONLY  
> about the
> support for *new *languages.
> Thanks,
>      Gerard
>
>
> http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh at wikimedia.org>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Very pleased to announce the official release of our first-ever  
>> Annual
>> Report today.
>>
>> Hosted on-wiki:
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report
>>
>> And blogged up here:
>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/10/31/wikimedias-first-ever-annual-report/
>>
>> We'll have lots of time to prep for the next annual report, so please
>> share any feedback or thoughts on how we can make improvements.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Jay Walsh
>> Head of Communications
>> WikimediaFoundation.org
>> +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609
>>
>>
>>
>>
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