English subtitles for clip: File:Ukrainian Wikipedia 15th birthday - Greetings from Katherine.webm

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З Днем народження, українська Вікіпедія!
Happy Birthday, Ukrainian Wikipedia!

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My name is Katherine Maher

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and I'm the Executive Director
of the Wikimedia Foundation

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and I'm sending you this birthday wish
from the beauty of the Alps in Switzerland.

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It is truly my great pleasure
to congratulate you

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at everything you've accomplished
on this birthday.

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Through your dedicated
work and commitment,

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you've built the 16th largest
Wikipedia in the world.

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And you're doing a fantastic job
of continuing to grow this Wikipedia

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and engaging more editors.

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In fact, this past year, in 2018,

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11% more editors joined
Ukrainian Wikipedia than in 2017.

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And participation in Ukrainian Wikipedia grew to
22 people per million speakers

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making it among one of the higher
participation rates in all of Wikipedia.

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More importantly, though,

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your work has strengthened the Ukrainian language
and sense of community.

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You've written over 818,000 articles

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helping document and preserve
your rich language and heritage

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in ways that otherwise not be possible.

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You've also played a huge role
in your region

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empowering other groups to create
knowledge through the Wikimedia CEE cooperative.

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This work is helping others
learn from your efforts

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and directly benefit
everything that you do.

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Today marks a start of a
year's editing marathon.

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I can't think of a better way
to celebrate this birthday

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than by honoring Ihor Kostenko's wish
to engage as many people as possible

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in working [on] at least one article
on Ukrainian Wikipedia.

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Thank you for everything that you're doing
to keep his dream alive.

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Thank you for everything that you're doing
to bring knowledge in Ukrainian to the world.

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Thank you for everything that you do
as part of our Wikimedia community.

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Happy birthday.