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Are you a learn10 users who also edits Wikipedia pages? If yes, please think about adding to the learn10 stub on the Wikipedia site. We have included basic information on the page, but it must now be added to by somebody other than us!

The page can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learn10

Many thanks.

With 9678 users (12:00, 22nd March) we are slowly moving towards the 10,000 mark. There have been only a few new links to the site in the last 24 hours, but there are now 17,800 mentions of learnitlists on the Internet. A slower pace of growth suits me just fine as we have some kinks to iron out before we publicise the widget any more. As J & M have pointed out, our first new users started finding us one calendar month ago. I think 10,000 people isn’t a bad basis for a beta test.

I spent a large chunk of yesterday comparing word lists. My assumption had been that I would not know if there was a mis-translation between English and another language that I’m not familiar with. After we lost our French translator, I decided to have a look for myself. M built a system on Friday where words which were the same in both languages were highlighted, and then added another bit so that I could edit the word lists. So… several hours later I have made corrections (courtesy of Alta Vista Babel Fish) to Portuguese, French and Italian. These still need to be loaded up. I hope M will do that tomorrow. Once I have repeated the exercise for all languages in a western script, then we can think about conducting some awareness raising.