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. > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:13:55 -0700 > From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <BANLkTi=butczycpv589iorjqjp1wkvv...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years > since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. > Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these > sites were: > > catalan.wikipedia.com > chinese.wikipedia.com > esperanto.wikipedia.com > french.wikipedia.com > deutsche.wikipedia.com > hebrew.wikipedia.com > italian.wikipedia.com > japanese.wikipedia.com > portuguese.wikipedia.com > spanish.wikipedia.com > russian.wikipedia.com > > (from > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html) > > The idea of having Wikipedias in multiple languages came from Jimbo in > March 2001 ( > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html); > note that the original German Wikipedia was actually set up at that > time, making it the second-oldest Wikipedia. Though the idea of using > two-letter domain codes was first raised then, after the above sites > were brought online in May there was further discussion, and the sites > were switched to two-letter codes a few days later: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000132.html. > > Happy tenth birthday, Wikipedias! (and many more!) May all of our > language editions flourish. > > -- phoebe > > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > <at> gmail.com * > > > > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
