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have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in
January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at
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Some time ago, I had began envisioning building an online network of local groups and organizations in my city. Recently, it has become increasingly clear to me that I would need to compile and catalogue a list of all the relevant unions, associations, societies and federations in order to move
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Good to see the WikiProject gradually being transformed to the new project structure! For now I have not yet spend time to know how to implement this so you're welcome to do the overhaul. I'm mainly interested in discussing content issues related to organizationsĀ :) (e.g. categorization
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To catalogue and organize localized listings and categories of associations, societies, unions and other non-profit groups in communities around the world. Form and update
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