<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">Wikipedia was launched on January 15 2001, coincidentally the same day<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons" title="Creative Commons" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif">Creative Commons</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="http://whois.domaintools.com/creativecommons.org" style="color:rgb(102,51,102);padding-right:13px;font-family:sans-serif">registered their website</a>. As you may know January 1 2019 was  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day" title="" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);font-size:14px;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif">Public Domain Day</a> when, for the first time in some years, a <a href="https://observer.com/2018/12/2019-copyright-works-entering-public-domain/">bunch of US stuff</a> became copyright free. Today we celebrate these three elements which, combined with plenty of effort from people like you, are what have given us this remarkable resource.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_default"></div><br><u></u><div class="gmail-m_-4108135988369668310subscription-body-tag"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" style="width:748px;background:rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" class="gmail-m_-4108135988369668310subscribe-body" style="width:728px;padding:10px"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="gmail-m_-4108135988369668310subscribe-wrapper" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="8" class="gmail-m_-4108135988369668310subscribe-header-wrap" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:8px"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-m_-4108135988369668310the-post"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody></tbody></table><div class="gmail-m_-4108135988369668310post-content" style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/wikidaynyc2019" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><img border="0" class="gmail-m_-4108135988369668310size-medium gmail-m_-4108135988369668310wp-image-10830" src="https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/wikidaynyc2019-300x169.png" alt="livestream" width="300" height="169" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a>Part celebration and part conference, the <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2019" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Wikipedia Day 18th Birthday Bash</a></strong> will be held on <strong>Sunday, January 13, 2019</strong> at the Ace Hotel New York, hosted by <strong><a href="https://nyc.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Wikimedia NYC</a></strong>. One of a number of <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Wikipedia Days worldwide</a></strong>, the day will feature keynote presentations, breakout group discussions, lightning talks and yes, for those present, cake. More than 150 people are expected to join conversations about Wikimedia and allied projects presented by <strong><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_Alliance_NYC" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Free Culture Alliance NYC</a></strong> partners. The entire event will be webcast on the <strong><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/wikidaynyc2019" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a></strong>.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"></p><p style="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