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-----Original Message----- From: WikimediaZA [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Bennett Sent: 02 November 2015 02:16 PM To: [email protected] Cc: wikimediaza Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] English Wikipedia: Five Million Articles 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 _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
