yes. virtual memorials are fine, and we could do an editathon in her name as we did for Kevin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/2016_Women_in_Philosophy_Drive but i think we should organize some scholarships / stipends in her name. i will raise this at Wikimedia DC meeting in June. if anyone else is interested, let me know.
Jim Hayes On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 2:32 PM <ciell.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Very sorry to hear about their passing. > > I've been involved with handling the 'administrative side' for a few > Wikimedians from the Dutch community we lost last year, and the people that > handle the en-Wikipedia page saw my edits and reached out to me and asked if > I could write a small in memorial about two of them who also were > internationally active: the team is quite pro-active in this. The in > memorials were published in the English Signpost. > Also, since a few years Jimmy mentions the people we lost as a movement in > his speech on Wikimania (after an email on wikimedia-l, and maybe other > places, to share the usernames of the people we lost in the past year) and we > even had a small memorial site at Wikimania 2019. Very nicely done, under a > tree, in the grass field next to the main building. > > I guess every community needs to find it's own way in this, the en-wp page is > imho a good point to start if you would like to create a page for your lost > ones. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians > > Ciell > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list -- gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to gendergap-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list -- gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to gendergap-le...@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s
