Editing EuroBillTracker (section)

== Characteristics ==
EuroBillTracker is an international non-profit volunteer team dedicated to tracking euro notes around the world. The site is made up of people who simply enter the information from the notes in their possession. Each user enters the [[serial number]]s and location information for each note they obtain into EuroBillTracker. A user can then see any comments from other people who have had that note. From this information, the site extracts:
* Diffusion information: Each euro country has its own range of note serial numbers and from this information EBT can generate diffusion graphs that tell us how the notes travel to other countries. See the Diffusion section for more information.
* Tracking information: When a note is re-entered, the users who previously entered it are notified via email. These hits can be seen in the statistics section.
* Statistics and rankings: Who enters the most notes, which are the top countries? Where are the notes currently situated?

Euro banknotes and coins were put into circulation on 1 January 2002 and EBT has been tracking notes since then. The site was initially created by Philippe Girolami (giro). Anssi Johansson (avij) has been assisting with running the site since mid-2003. Site translation and various other tasks are handled by a group of active EBT users.

EuroBillTracker is not affiliated with the [[European Union]], [[European Central Bank]], national central banks or other financial institutions. Using EBT is completely free. Unlike [[Where's George?]], EuroBillTracker requires users to register an account before they can enter details of banknotes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurobilltrackerforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=10810 |title=EuroBillTracker :: View topic – how to enter notes? |publisher=Eurobilltrackerforum.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-13}}</ref>

From February 2008 onwards, the website is supposed to be run by a non-profit organization based in [[France]], and called the [[European Society for EuroBillTrackers]] or [[Association des Eurobilltrackers]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurobilltrackerforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=10510 |title=EuroBillTracker :: View topic – Gennevilliers Agreement |publisher=Eurobilltrackerforum.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-13}}</ref> This organisation, operating generally similar to the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], will be in charge of protecting the EuroBillTracker database and ensuring it is free of charge. Proceedings for the founding of the association are under way as of January 2008; they were launched after disagreements between the founder of the website and other webmasters caused a split of EuroBillTracker into two different sites on 24 December 2007. The two sites reunited in early 2008.