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Dutch 2011 Hack-a-ton a great success

Wikipedia birthday cakes during the celebrations  in Amsterdam (Derk-Jan Hartman, CC-BY-SA 3.0 ) So here we are... One day after the 10 year anniversary of Wikipedia and I think that I'm not the only Wikipedian who will testify that it has been a great couple of days. Lots of online friends meeting in real life at one of the 450 or so events , lots of very nice press attention for our once so humble project and just all out fun. Myself I participated in the first Dutch Hackathon . The day kicked of Friday 14th, at 10 in the morning in the offices of Kennisland in Amsterdam. Since I was working on friday, I joined in on the fun at around 18:30 during pizza-time. There were about 15 or so developers as well as a dozen or so Wikimedians and people from a Wikipedia editing workshop that took place during the day. They assisted in the brainstorming, provided feedback and were kind enough to drink beers with us :D Several projects had been selected in advance and a great deal ...