2012 — the big year: The movement, now in its second decade, is growing apace in its international reach, cultural and linguistic diversity, technical development, and financial complexity.
Narender9's rear view of the Taj Mahal on 12 September, a foggy morning. The picture won sixth place in the 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments competition.The past 12 months have seen the emergence of many issues and events in the Wikimedia Foundation, the movement at large, and the English Wikipedia. The movement, now in its second decade, is growing apace in its international reach, cultural and linguistic diversity, technical development, and financial complexity; and many factors have combined to produce what has in many ways been the biggest, most dynamic year in the movement's history. Looking back at 2012, we faced a difficult task in doing justice to all of the notable events in a single article; so rather than trying to cover every detail, the Signpost has selected just a few examples from outside the anglosphere, from the English Wikipedia, and from the Wikimedia Foundation.
