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. > > > > > > 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 * > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Анатолій Гончаров mailto:ah...@wikimediaukraine.org.ua ICQ: 364-176-156 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
