[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd:happy birthday, Wikipedias

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Just a small piece of history of the Global Wikipedia movement, see below
mail thread. Thought to share it here also.

For those who are wondering about the origin of Indic / Indian subcontinent
language Wikipedias, here it is.

*2002*
*June*: *Assamese*,*Punjabi*, *Nepali*, *Oriya( Odia)*
*December* : *Malayalam*

*2003*
*February: Bhojpuri
May: Marathi
June: Kannada
July: Hindi, Kashmiri
September: Tamil
December: Telugu, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Sindhi*

*2004*
*January: Bengali, Urdu, Sinhala*

Regards
Tinu Cherian

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:43 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these
sites were:

catalan.wikipedia.com
chinese.wikipedia.com
esperanto.wikipedia.com
french.wikipedia.com
deutsche.wikipedia.com
hebrew.wikipedia.com
italian.wikipedia.com
japanese.wikipedia.com
portuguese.wikipedia.com
spanish.wikipedia.com
russian.wikipedia.com

(from http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html)

The idea of having Wikipedias in multiple languages came from Jimbo in
March 2001 (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html);
note that the original German Wikipedia was actually set up at that
time, making it the second-oldest Wikipedia. Though the idea of using
two-letter domain codes was first raised then, after the above sites
were brought online in May there was further discussion, and the sites
were switched to two-letter codes a few days later:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000132.html.

Happy tenth birthday, Wikipedias! (and many more!)  May all of our
language editions flourish.

-- phoebe


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