[WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Quarto

[Anthere]

Since Wikipedia has been dead for at least 15 minutes now... I use the 
opportunity (I need to satisfy my wikipediholism) to remind you of 
Wikimedia Quarto, our quartely (well, as much as availability allow in 
truth, as well as mood...) publication, which tries to :

* report on the Foundation activity. Read more on our last grants. Did 
you know we just got 40000 dollars to help the projects ?

* keep you informed on new projects and generally on projects evolution 
aside from the english wikipedia. Do you know in how many languages 
Wikinews is currently developped ? Do you know how to say "Merry 
Christmas and Happy New Year" in Italian ?

* keep you updated with last trimester technical stuff. Did you know 
that we had now three servers in Paris to help the Florida cluster ?

* keep you informed on past meetings and future meetings. Do you know 
the name of the great organiser of last netherlands meetup ? (Tip : he 
is bald). Have you thought of organising a meeting yourself ? Do you 
plan to come to Wikimania ?

* update you on local chapters existence and activity. Quizz : does the 
french chapter exist or does not exist ? Which languages are trying to 
set up a chapter ?

* keep you informed with the media opinion on what wikipedia is... Do 
you know which one refers to Jimbo as the king of England ?

Anyway, plenty of great stuff, now completed in english (but for a board 
letter which I had the insuffurably crazy idea to write in french and 
which I lack courage to translate for now, you are welcome to help).

You are welcome to read this letter, entirely, or only the parts you 
feel like reading, AND to correct mistakes, typos, anything you feel 
need improvement in style. We need proofreaders :-)

Many people participated to that letter, and many are not english 
speaking, so it *might* be that some of you feel like correcting the 
language.
Please do so, but please DO NOT add "sic" behind poorly spelled words, 
as this is a reason for blocking people on meta.



http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/2



Thanks

Anthere

PS : if you have helped write the letter and are not mentionned in the 
writers, please add your name without shyness, or complain to me in 
private so that I can do it :-)