On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Quim Gil <quim....@nokia.com> wrote: > On 5/10/2011 4:13 PM, ext phoebe ayers wrote: >> Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years >> since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. > > Joan and Анатолій have mentioned this already but here goes a bit more > detail: > > The first non-English Wikipedia created was the German on March 16, 2001 > > The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, March 16, > 2001, made to the Catalan Main Page. The first contribution in a > non-English article dates from March 17 at 01:41 UTC in the article > http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80bac > > Sources: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#History > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Wikipedia#Creation > > fwiw I learned all this back in March when the Catalan Wikipedia was > celebrating the 10th anniversary with a big banner in all > ca.wikipedia.org pages. > > -- > Quim (son of German mother and Catalan father, based in USA) ;) > > > On 5/11/2011 4:34 AM, ext Анатолій Гончаров wrote: > > German and Catalan wikis was created on March 2001 > > > > 2011/5/11<foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > >> Happy birthday. > >> > >> If you read carefully the mail you are pointing to there it says: > >> > >> "Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix." > >> > >> But in the list there are 11 languages. > >> > >> The difference is because it was not the first group of non-English > >> Wikipedias coming online.
Thanks Quim & Анатолій, of course it was the *second* big group of languages (I knew Catalan was early, but wasn't sure if it was created before the rest -- it's not well documented). Thanks for the note about the first edit to Catalan! At any rate, I am sorry to miss marking March 16 as an anniversary as well -- though perhaps the lesson is we should just celebrate all spring (and beyond). -- phoebe p.s. "The Wikipedia Revolution" does treat this topic briefly; though I have to say, I am looking forward to the day a historian sits down and produces a dry and scholarly multi-volume history of Wikipedia, with appropriate exigesis & footnotes. It's a lovely subject, with just enough of the records missing to be mysterious. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l