[Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

[Thomas Dalton]

On 6 January 2011 00:59, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's the 10th birthday of both the English Wikipedia and Wikipedia in
general. The different language versions are not completely
independant entities, they are all part of one multi-lingual project.