Hi Kezia, people who selected to join the mailing list whilst filling out
the survey on Wikipedia were added to the mailing list. I have asked
Theresa to look into why the mail opt-out system does not seem to be
working.
Thanks,
Douglas.
On 2 November 2015 at 14:31, kezia.lilenstein <kezia.lilenstein(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Douglas
I already did that. I have been re added by someone on your side. Very
irritating. I have no idea why I'm even getting these emails - I answered
a survey once and now I'm sent random emails that have nothing to do with
me.
Sent from Samsung Mobile
-------- Original message --------
From: Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
Date: 11/02/2015 12:22 (GMT+00:00)
To: Theresa Hume <theresa.hume(a)wikimedia.org.za>
Cc: wikimediaza <wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] English Wikipedia: Five Million Articles
Hi Edward,
If you, or anyone else, wishes to be removed from the mailing list you may
do so at the link here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
It is not our policy, as an organisation run by volunteers, to remove
people from the mailing list nor add people to the mailing list unless they
have explicitly stated that they wish to be added.
Thanks,
Douglas.
On 2 November 2015 at 14:16, Edward Bennett <bentten.training(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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 <
douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
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
WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
_______________________________________________
WikimediaZA mailing list
WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
--
Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
_______________________________________________
WikimediaZA mailing list
WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
_______________________________________________
WikimediaZA mailing list
WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
--
Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727