[Foundation-l] Re: More news from Serbia and Montenegro chapter

Sun Jan 22 07:25:20 UTC 2006

Milos Rancic wrote:
> Before Jovana sends (in Monday) our weekly digest about events related
> to Wikimedia SCG chapter, I want to say/ask a few things:
> 
> - I think that lists Foundation, Wikipedia, Wikinews and email to the
> Board are good places for such informations. If someone thinks that
> some list(s)/email(s) should be excluded/included, please, tell us
> that.

Yes :-)
Please, remove the board address. We read this list already :-)

Thanks for the feedbacks :-)

ant

> - In the last 7-10 days we had a lot of contacts with media, one
> rostrum (I think that our dictionaries made correct translation :)
> this is some kind of lecturer with debate after that) as well as our
> regular meetings at Sunday with a lot of new people who are interested
> in developing Wikipedia (in general, Serbian, but others, too) and
> software for conversion (improvement of Zhengzhu's Chinese and Serbian
> version and possibility to implement it not only for Serbian version
> of MediaWiki, but, also for some others with similar needs).
> 
> - Thanks to Dragan Ambrozic, our vice president and professional in
> event making, we have a lot contacts with media. I am surprised with
> the number of journalists who contacted our PR Jovana and me. In
> Friday we had 26 new registered users. I looked relations between
> registered users and users with more then 10 edits and when 26 users
> register accounts it means that we would have 3 Wikipedians more; if
> we continue with such progression, we would have 100 new users per
> month, very soon (to compare: the best month before was August 2005
> with 26 new users; also, approximation for December 2005 was that we
> would have 203 users at all!).
> 
> - People outside of the project like our idea very much, many of them
> are willing to help in different ways. (Finally, we have the article
> about Jimbo ;) ) And I can say that I am very happy because of recent
> development: people who are not my close friends are calling me by
> phone and they are saying "I heard about Wikipedia in the news!".
> 
> - It also should be noted that Wikimedia SCG is the first free
> knowledge organization in Serbia and Montenegro. There are no such
> organization in Serbia. And in this moment we are covering the hole
> space related to free knowledge. (There are some organization which
> promote open content, BUT they are doing that only because it is the
> new way for getting money from sponsors.)
> 
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