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=== [[Wikipedia Announcements]]: February 2002 ===

'''February 13, 2002'''

[[Larry Sanger]] has made [http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Announcement_about_my_involvement_in_Wikipedia_and_Nupedia--Larry_Sanger an important announcement] about his involvement in Wikipedia and Nupedia.  He hopes you'll read this.

'''February 12, 2002''' 

Numerous bugfixes and optimizations to the new [[wikipedia:PHP script|PHP/MySQL-based software]] have brought Wikipedia back up to speed. Please continue to [[Wikipedia bugs|report bugs]].

Well done, guys!

'''February 7, 2002'''

Today, February 7th, Spanish Wikipedia met the challenge. We reached our first 1.000 useful articles.
<br>Stats:
<br>Pages (total):1.502
<br>"Comma" pages:1.131
<br>Meta-wikipedia pages:-113
<br>Useful articles pages:'''1.018'''
<br>[[Edgar]]

'''February 4, 2002'''

The main page recently announced that we broke the 23,000 article mark.  This is in spite of the fact that, in the few weeks since we've switched to the new [[wikipedia:PHP script|PHP/MySQL-based software]], the website has been running annoyingly slowly.  This is a problem our team of programmers has been working on; join [[Wikipedia-L]] (or see the archives) for details.  Hopefully, this problem will be solved soon, but we can't make any guarantees yet.  Thanks very much to the volunteers.  :-)
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[[category:Foundations]]
The '''Long Now Foundation''' was established in [[1996]]. It is a private organization that has set itself a two-fold mission of educating the general public of their belief that the human race needs a long-term perspective of its future to enhance its survival.  Members believe that [[digital]] information storage is always in inherent danger of destruction due to its often transient nature and that steps must be taken to preserve human knowledge using durable methods and [[medium|media]].

At the time of this writing, the Foundation has several ongoing projects, including a 10,000 year clock, called the ''[[Clock of the Long Now]]'', and, in association with [[The Lazy Eight Foundation]], the ''[[Rosetta Project]]''.

The purpose of the ''Clock of the Long Now'' is to construct a timepiece that will operate with minimum [[human]] intervention for ten [[millennium|millennia]]. It is to be constructed of durable materials and to be easy to repair. It is to be made of largely valueless materials in case knowledge of the [[Clock]] is lost or it is deemed to be of no value to an individual or possible future [[civilization]]; in this way it is hoped that the Clock will not be [[looting|looted]] and destroyed. Its power source or sources should be renewable but also not lootable. A prototype of a potential final clock candidate was activated on [[December 31]] [[1999]]. The prototype is on display at the Science Museum of [[London]]. The Foundation hopes to construct the finished Clock at a location near [[Ely, Nevada]].

The ''Rosetta Project'' is an effort to preserve up to one thousand [[language]]s that have a high likelihood of extinction over the period from [[2000]] to [[2100]]. These include many languages whose [[native speaker]]s number in the thousands or less. Other languages with many more speakers are considered endangered by the project due to the increasing importance of [[English language|English]] as an international language of commerce and culture. Samples of such languages are to be inscribed onto a disk of [[nickel]] alloy two [[inch]]es (5.08 [[centimetre|cm]]) across. A "Version 1.0" of the disk was completed in the [[Autumn|Fall]] of [[2002]]. 

The ''Seminars on Long Term Thinking'' are a series of monthly lectures in [[San Francisco]], [[California|CA]] presented by the Foundation.  The seminars are intended to "nudge civilization toward making long-term thinking automatic and common."  Topics have included preserving [[environmental movement|environmental]] resources, the extension of the human [[lifespan]], the likelihood of an [[asteroid]] strike in the future, [[SETI]], and the nature of [[time]]. 

The members of The Long Now Foundation include [[Danny Hillis]] (inventor of the [[Connection Machine]]), [[Stewart Brand]], and [[Brian Eno]].

In [[2005]], inspired by the Long Now Foundation, Gordon Charlton started the first [[Diary]] of the Long Now, a diary of 10,000 years, with one entry for each year.

==External links==
* [http://www.longnow.org/ The Long Now Foundation]
* [http://www.rosettaproject.org/ The Rosetta Project]
* [http://www.longbets.org/ The Long Bets Foundation]
* [http://longnowdiary.blogspot.com/ A Diary of the Long Now]

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