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Press releases see also the other press releases on Meta Wikimedia Foundation Announces Interim Executive Director 06/12/2006 English Wikipedia Announces Thousandth Featured Article 06/08/2006 English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article 03/01/2006 Wikimedia Foundation launches year-end fundraiser 12/16/2005 Nature compares Wikipedia and Britannica 12/15/2005 Wikipedia tightens editorial control 12/06/2005 Kennisnet supports Wikimedia Projects 05/26/2005 (Dutch version) Wikimedia announces Yahoo support 04/07/2005 (en français) German Wikipedia available on DVD 04/06/2005 (auf Deutsch) English Wikipedia reaches 500,000 articles 3/18/2005 Wikipedia hits 1,000,000 articles in 100 languages 9/20/2004

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Press contacts

You can contact Wikipedia founder Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales directly:

• by email - jwales (at) wikimedia.org
• by phone - contact Danny Wool at 727-231-0101.

"My travel schedule is here. I am eager to meet journalists everywhere I go. Even if I am out of the U.S. do not assume you can't reach me -- I try to stay in constant contact with email and/or phone to Danny. I speak only English, but if you want to do an email interview in some other language, we can easily find someone to assist us." -- Jimmy Wales

General press inquiries may be sent to press@wikimedia.org.

The Americas

United States

• Kat Walsh, Herndon, VA

mindspillage (at) gmail (dot) com

• Mark Pellegrini, Newark, DE

mapellegrini (at) comcast (dot) net

• Samuel Klein, Boston, MA

metasj (at) gmail (dot) com

617.529.4266

Canada

• Nicholas Moreau, Toronto ON (English)

nicholasmoreau@gmail.com

Europe

Belgium Walter Vermeir walter (at) wikipedia (dot) be France Florence Devouard - Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation fdevouard (at) wikimedia (dot) org Nicolas Weeger, Paris nicolas.weeger (at) wikimedia (dot) fr Germany, Switzerland and Austria See Presse Kurt Jansson, Berlin kurt.jansson (at) wikimedia (dot) de Arne Klempert, near Frankfurt arne.klempert (at) wikimedia (dot) de Italy Elfrieda Brioschi ubifrieda (at) gmail (dot) com

Norway See Presse Chris Nyborg chris.nyborg (at) katolsk (dot) no Sweden See Press och media Mats Halldin Email: matshalldin**at**gmail**dot**com Phone: (+46)-08-843794 or (+46)-0733-555274 UK Angela Beesley, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation Email: abeesley@wikimedia.org Phone: (+44)-208-816-7308 David Gerard, Walthamstow, London wp (at) davidgerard.co.uk