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Hello Wikimedians!

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I’m so happy to be joining you today for the Donostiapedia edit-a-thon. Welcome today in Donostia.

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My name is Katherine Maher, and I’m the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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The Wikimedia Foundation helps support Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects.

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I want to first thank the Basque Wikimedia User Group

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and the countless other volunteers and institutions for making this event possible today.

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Your gathering and work today is an exercise in sharing across languages, cultures, and communities

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- the heart of Wikimedia’s values and purpose.

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Together, you bring knowledge and perspectives from

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Basque, Galician, Occitan, Asturian, Aragonese, and Maltese Wikimedia projects,

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and from a number of Wikimedia affiliates, including Amical Wikimedia, Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Spain.

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All of this is an inspiring example of the global collaboration that makes our movement so strong.

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And it’s fitting that this takes place in San Sebastián, or Donostia, a 2016 European Capital of Culture.

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To be recognized as a capital of culture is a great achievement.

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It speaks to the importance of your past, the vibrancy of your present, and the opportunity for the future.

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That is also what this editathon represents

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the importance of coming together, across countries, languages, and experiences

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the importance of our unique histories, and of our common knowledge.

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It is a declaration for the bright future of your communities, and the importance of diverse language Wikipedias.

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I would like to congratulate Basque Wikipedia today - speaking of diverse Wikipedias.

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It has also recently celebrated an important milestone - 250,000 articles. Congratulations!

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This edit-a-thon is one important way the Wikimedia movement is involved in Donostia, but it’s not the only way.

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Wikipedians in Residence have been working this year at three institutions in San Sebastián,

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including the San Telmo Museum where you find yourselves just outside of today.

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The Basque Wikimedia User Group has also been working with

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teachers, historians, and writers to teach them how to edit Wikipedia.

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There have already been several workshops and meetups so far.

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I’ve even heard you’re planning to make a book of all the Wikipedia articles that you create?

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That is incredible.

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Contributions like these, and the everyday contributions of so many Wikimedians, lead to more free knowledge for the world.

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And it is your collaboration that makes all of that possible.

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From the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, California,

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thank you for being a shining example of how we can do more when we do it together.

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I look forward to hearing about the outcomes of this edit-a-thon

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and what else you accomplish in bringing the Wikimedia projects to San Sebastián in 2016.

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Thank you!