Dear *Douglas Scott*. I have requested to be removed from the mailing list.
Please action ASAP. On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Douglas Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Below is a short blurb I have written and put on the Wikimedia ZA website > about the five millionth article on Wikipedia that was created today. I > want to share it with all of you before I share it with the media tomorrow > morning. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments (or > improvements) about it. There are links to the sources where I got the > figures mentioned in the statement on the version on the Wikimedia ZA > website <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Main_Page>. As you will be able to > tell a large focus of the statement is to call for more South Africans to > get involved in editing Wikipedia. > > Apologies for the short notice on this, I only saw the message about the 5 > millionth article creation a few hours ago. > > --- > > *English Wikipedia: five million articles* > > Today, 1 November 2015, the 5 millionth article was created on English > language Wikipedia about Persoonia terminalis -an Australian shrub- by long > time Wikipedia editor Cas Liber. For more information about this momentous > event in the Wikipedia community see the press statement by the Wikimedia > Foundation at the link here. > > The 5,000,000 articles on English language Wikipedia would not have been > possible without the 126,672 active editors and 1,329 administrators who > have collectively made over 790,000,000 edits on the wiki. Currently > Wikipedia is the 7th most popular website on the internet with only Google, > Facebook, YouTube, Baidu (a Chinese search engine), Yahoo, and Amazon > beating the online encyclopaedia in the rankings. According to Wiki Project > South Africa there are just over 20,000 articles on English language > Wikipedia about the country. Afrikaans language Wikipedia currently has > 37,534 articles with 163 active editors and 11 administrators. Other South > African language Wikipedia's are much smaller and in great need of an > active editing community with languages such as North Sotho (2,687 > articles), Sesotho (292 articles), Zulu (696 articles), Xhosa (417 > articles), Venda (186 articles), and Tsonga (281 articles) having a > Wikipedia in their respective languages. We would like to encourage all > South Africans to contribute more to Wikipedia by editing articles, > especially if they are in one of the less active language Wikipedias or > about South African content or African content generally. There is a need > for more editors from South Africa to help add content to Wikipedia. > > Best regards, > > Douglas. > > -- > Douglas Ian Scott > 司道格 > Skype: douglas0scott > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
