Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Denny Vrandecic
For Wikipedia's 15th birthday I wish that we will move towards thinking how to massively increase the effectivity of each and every single contributor and their reach. I wish us to think how we can, by 2020, create well-sourced, high quality, comprehensive Wikipedias in more than 200 languages, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread WereSpielChequers
A few hours ago I had the pleasure of celebrating Wikipedia's fifteenth birthday here in Tbilisi with Wikimedia Georgia. Press and Television were both in attendance. We had some interesting discussions

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Leung Chung-ming
Just concluded our WP15 celebrations. Was having happy moments with fellow Wikipedians from HK and Taipei and sharing our vision and thought on the future of Wikipedia. We cut a cake and sang a birthday song[1] to Wikipedia, just as our Italian counterparts did. We wish that Wikipedia can serve

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Ivan Martínez
Thanks for sharing, my friend! 2016-01-15 10:55 GMT-06:00 Lila Tretikov : > Mardetanha, thank you for kicking off the celebration from Tehran. > Congratulations > Wikimedians of the world on your massive achievement. > > Lila > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Mardetanha > wrote: > > > Dear F

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Lila Tretikov
Mardetanha, thank you for kicking off the celebration from Tehran. Congratulations Wikimedians of the world on your massive achievement. Lila On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Mardetanha wrote: > Dear Fellow Wikimedians > I would like to congratulate you on Wikipedia's 15th birthday, it was > hi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Andrea Zanni
In the tradition of originality that belongs to Wikipedians, here for your enjoyment there is a video of a XVII century version of "Happy Birthday, Wikimedia": https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Happy_Birthday_Wikipedia_2016_-_Flavio_Colusso_-_WM-IT.webm Here's the audio version: https://comm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Florence Devouard
Le 15/01/16 14:31, Amir Ladsgroup a écrit : About the celebration in Tehran, I think this video is worth watching :) P.S. The hashtag we used for the celebration #wikipedia15fa is now being used widely by everyone \o/ Best Wonderful !!!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Andrew Lih
Here’s my piece talking about Wikipedia @15 that ran on The Washington Post this morning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/01/15/wikipedia-just-turned-15-years-old-will-it-survive-15-more/ I’ll post some personal reflections later. Happy 15th all! On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
About the celebration in Tehran, I think this video is worth watching :) P.S. The hashtag we used for the celebration #wikipedia15fa is now being used widely by everyone \o/ Best On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:03 PM Yusuke Matsubara wrote: > O

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Yusuke Matsubara
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > You may think by now we are in the free information world, and the players of > the 1980 Japanese ice hockey team are on Wikipedia. (snip) > Japanese Wikipedia, as far as I can tell, is not better. A team of mystery > persons. Try th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:00:50 +0330 Mardetanha wrote: > Dear Fellow Wikimedians > I would like to congratulate you on Wikipedia's 15th birthday, it was > historic moment for all of us, I am glad to let you know we had a > celebration in Tehran and we were the first country to celebrate it. > you c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Jane Darnell
Thanks for sharing! I was bicycling through New York and stopped in Lake Placid in 2005 to buy a pair of running shoes (long story, but I still have them, though they are really worn down now) and in the sports store and local (Carnegie) library they are still proud of those Olympics and talk about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-15 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2016-01-15 00:30, Mardetanha wrote: Dear Fellow Wikimedians I would like to congratulate you on Wikipedia's 15th birthday, it was historic moment for all of us, I am glad to let you know we had a celebration in Tehran and we were the first country to celebrate it. you can find images here http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-14 Thread Tanvir Rahman
Nice to hear about it, Mardentanha. Great news! Bangladesh has planned to celebrate it in a few hours. :-) More later. Till then, keep celebrating people. T. Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia On 15 January 2016 at 00:30, Mardetanha wrote: > Dear Fellow Wikimedians > I would like to congr

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

2016-01-14 Thread Mardetanha
Dear Fellow Wikimedians I would like to congratulate you on Wikipedia's 15th birthday, it was historic moment for all of us, I am glad to let you know we had a celebration in Tehran and we were the first country to celebrate it. you can find images here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W