This was a beautiful read. My interest in Polish Wikipedia and life in rural Poland has just piqued.
Congratulations Salicyna, You've got a new fan. Thank you Natalia for writing so beautifully too. Best, On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 5:28 PM Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz < macieknadzikiew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations Salicyna, you deserved it! > > For those of you who don't edit Polish Wikipedia (you really should, > people there are amazing!), if you see an article edited by Salicyna you > can be sure that it meets all the criteria. Most of her DidYouKnow articles > go through confirmation without any discussion and corrections. It is a > pleasure working with her. > > I hope you can meet her this summer at Wikimania 2024 in Katowice, Poland! > > Cheers, > -- > > > Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (He/him) > > Wikimania 2024 Poland – Team Lead > > Wikimedia Europe Board Member > > Wikipedia Administrator > > User:Nadzik <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nadzik> > > ᐧ > > wt., 12 mar 2024 o 13:21 Natalia Szafran <nszaf...@wikimedia.org> > napisał(a): > >> Hi all, >> >> Once again we celebrate an exceptional Wikimedian, this time - an admin, >> a contributor, a person with many roles in Wikimedia projects. >> >> >> Salicyna <https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikiskryba:Salicyna>knows the >> struggle of lacking access to knowledge all too well. Growing up in rural >> Poland, she was a passionate reader with no access to well-stocked >> libraries and cultural institutions. This was still in the pre-Internet >> times, and her family, struggling financially, couldn't provide the >> resources she yearned for. "I remember this unsatisfied hunger for >> knowledge as stronger and more severe than the physical hunger," she >> reflects. “Sadly”, she says “millions still face this very knowledge hunger >> today, restricted by geographical location, poverty, disabilities, or >> illness”. Salicyna sees Wikimedia projects, with their free access to >> knowledge and culture, as a powerful tool to help alleviate this yearning, >> at least partially. >> >> Driven by a desire to offer others what she lacked as a child, Salicyna >> has become a prolific contributor to the Wikimedia movement, boasting over >> 680,000 contributions across various projects. She wears many hats: a >> Wikisource admin, an author of well-regarded medical articles on Wikipedia, >> a Wikibooks contributor, and a passionate photographer on Wikimedia >> Commons, specializing in roses and seedlings. >> >> Today we WikiCelebrate >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate> her >> contributions to the Wikimedia Movement! >> >> Learn more about her Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource contributions and >> her story on Diff blog >> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/03/12/roses-are-red-salicyna-makes-their-links-blue-we-celebrate-her-and-the-content-she-grew/> >> (available in English, French, Polish, Spanish) or Meta >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Salicyna> >> (where you can also congratulate Salicyna!). >> >> Each month we WikiCelebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the >> amazing community, the pillars of our movement. We warmly invite you to >> participate in the celebrations. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that >> you think should be celebrated, recommend them >> <https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate>. >> >> Happy celebrating! >> >> -- >> *Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska* (she/her) >> Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (European Region) >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/BQX5TBF4POHXXRHSACEHO35A343JZUSR/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/DATKART4NFL7QROXN7FSWH6QKUAEIXU4/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- *Wilson Oluoha* UTC+1 Skype: studywilson1106 | Telegram: @Wilsn_Oluoha | Whatsapp: message <https://wa.me/2348069451106> Wikimedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:OtuNwachinemere>| <https://www.linkedin.com/in/devouard/>LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilson-oluoha-a2b4a6181/> | Website <https://www.wikilovesafrica.net/> | Instagram <https://instagram.com/i_see_a_picture> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/OluohaWilson> Hear my name <https://namedrop.io/wilsonoluoha>
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