[Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

[M. Williamson]

Wikipedia was started on that date, wasn't it? True, other Wikipedias
didn't exist yet, but I don't think that makes it any less
significant. If you speak a non-English language as your native tongue
and wish therefore to not make any fuss about the date, feel free, but
I'm certain it won't just be en.wp users celebrating.

-m.

2011/1/5 MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com>:
> Steven Walling wrote:
>> "The other Wikipedias weren't started on that date, so they have nothing to
>> celebrate or commemorate."
>>
>> The anniversary is not just about English Wikipedia. If this was just
>> English Wikipedia's celebration, there certainly wouldn't be more than 100
>> events organized in dozens of countries and on every continent except
>> Antarctica.
>
> That's incredibly poor logic. Only the English Wikipedia is going to be ten
> years old on January 15, 2011. If people around the world want to throw
> parties for the English Wikipedia's tenth anniversary, they're of course
> free to. But that doesn't change the facts, even if people will be partying
> in six of seven continents. Don't be silly.
>
> MZMcBride
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