ウィキペディア15周年/メディア/プレスリリース/サンプル

これはウィキペディア15周年記念日向けのプレスリリースのサンプルです。必要に応じ、翻訳・修正し、自由に用いて下さい。注意個所は太字で示してあります。

サンプル・プレスリリース:ウィキペディア15周年

フリーな知識源として、ウィキペディアは15周年を迎えます。

ウィキペディア15周年を記念し、世界のウィキペディアンは、各地でパーティやイベントを開催します。

2016年1月15日、[都市名、国名（都市が有名でない場合）] - 今日は、誰でも編集できるフリー百科事典ウィキペディアの15周年の記念日です。今週は、世界中の編集者や読者が15年の間に蓄積したフリーな知識とそれを得られる歓びに沸いています。[地元でのお祝いの計画]

ウィキペディアは2001年1月15日に「人類みんなが全ての知識の集積を自由に共有できる世界」という大胆なビジョンのもとで始まりました。当時、世界中の人々が1つの百科事典を作り上げるのに無償で協力するというのは信じられない考え方でした。それから、世界中の何億人ものユーザーのおかげで300近い言語で3500万本もの記事ができるまでになりました。ウィキペディアは現在でも世界のボランティアによって成り立っています。毎月、8万人のボランティアがこのサイトに投稿しているのです。

ウィキペディアが15周年ということは、世界で今生きている人の28%はウィキペディアのない世界を知りません。インターネットはほとんどがプライベートなスペースで発達してきましたが、ウィキペディアは背景や年齢にかかわらず地球上のみんなに提供されています。

January 15 marks not just the birth of Wikipedia, but the beginning of a movement. Wikipedia is much more than a website. Wikipedia and its sister Wikimedia projects represent a global, ever-expanding resource and community for free knowledge. Here are just a few examples:

• Wikipedia started in January 2001 in English, but soon expanded to other languages—within the first year, it grew to 18 languages. Today, it is available in hundreds of languages.
• Volunteers constantly edit and improve Wikipedia. Every hour, roughly 15,000 edits are made to Wikipedia. Every day, 7,000 new articles are created.
• Wikipedia became one of the top 10 websites in the world in 2007, and the only non-profit website anywhere near the top.
• It’s not just Wikipedia. Wikimedia has 11 other free knowledge projects, including the Wikimedia Commons as well as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, and more.
• Wiki Loves Monuments, a global photo competition, was launched in 2010 to document images of cultural heritage. In 2011, the contest was named the largest photo competition in the world. Companion projects, such as Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Africa, and Wiki Loves Cheese, are global photographic competitions focused on other topics.
• Volunteers around the world have built hundreds of partnerships with galleries, libraries and museums to make institutional collections more broadly available.
• [Feel free to pick and choose which milestones you’d like to highlight, and add a few of your own! We’re collecting ideas here. ]

"Wikipedia challenged us to rethink how knowledge can be gathered and shared." said Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, "Knowledge is no longer handed down from on high, instead it is freely shared by everyone online. Wikipedia seemed like an impossible idea at the time—an online encyclopaedia that everyone can edit. However, it has surpassed everyone's expectations over the past 15 years, thanks to the hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the world who have made Wikipedia possible."

Today, we celebrate not only Wikipedia, but all of the projects, partnerships, events, and joy it has spurred over the past 15 years, with many still to come. The Wikimedia community of editors around the world are hosting parties, conferences, and other events to bring together community members and celebrate Wikipedia’s 15th birthday. [Place to discuss your own community’s plans.]

If you’d like to get involved, check out our dedicated Wikipedia 15 page where events are being coordinated. You can use social media to tell us what Wikipedia means to you by tagging @Wikipedia [or your local social media account] and using the hashtag #wikipedia15.

ウィキペディアについて

Wikipedia is the largest collection of collaboratively built free knowledge in human history. It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people from around the globe since it was created in 2001: anyone can edit it, at any time. Wikipedia is offered in hundreds of languages and contains more than 35 million articles. Each month, it receives more than 15 billion pageviews. Wikipedia’s content is contributed and edited by a community of around 80,000 volunteer editors each month.

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