After 4 years of efforts improving 414 articles, in collaboration with the World Health Organization Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products, the list has made the main page of EN Wikipedia. Many thanks to all involved :-)
Work continues to translate the leads of each of the individuals articles into as many other languages as possible in collaboration with Translators Without Borders among others. James On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > I enjoy seeing this photo that was selected as the Commons Picture of the > Day to mark World Environment Day on 5 June: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polar_bear_(Ursus)_ > maritimus_female_with_its_cub,_Svalbard_(2).jpg > > I went to the photographer's talk page on Commons to learn more about him. > He says that he is a resident of Germany, has a Ph.D. in biology, and > enjoys photographing the Arctic. > > The photo was taken in Svalbard, which has a nice page on Wikivoyage here > <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Svalbard>. On that page I learned that > "Svalbard's visitors come mostly to experience Arctic nature at its rawest > and most powerful. The islands have untouched glaciers and craggy > mountains, but also polar bears, caribou, a peculiar short legged reindeer, > polar foxes, whales, seals and walruses. Svalbard is renowned for its > variety of birds, including Arctic Terns, Arctic Fulmar and Puffins. Whales > can be spotted off the coastlines particularly during late summer. Humpback > whales, Orcas, Beluga whales, and Narwhals all frequent the ocean waters > near Svalbard." > > What's making you happy this week? > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
