All I know is what is reported on her Wikipedia userpage 2014-04-11 18:32 GMT+02:00, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <danc...@frontiernet.net>: >>Subject: [Gendergap] Blogger and Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz died >>whilerock-climbing > >>This is to inform you that one of the contributors to this list who >>spent a lot of time working on the Gendergap issue and ways to solve >>it, has died in a rock-climbing accident. >>http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/blog/adrianne-wadewitz/ > > How truly sad. > > While I did not work with her on any gendergap-related issues, I remember > her well as a tenacious reviewer of DYK submissions, mine included. We > didn't always agree, but I never doubted her integrity and commitment to the > ideals of Wikipedia and Wikimedia. > > I would note for this list her high output of featured articles, many of > them on works of women like Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from her chosen > period of literary study, the late 18th and early 19th century, as well as > biographies of some major and minor figures of that epoch (including the > now-infamous [[Fanny Imlay]] article, one of the few nominated for deletion > (albeit strategically) on the same day it was on the main page. Nobody *but* > her could have defended that article on the talk page as well as she did > (compare with yours truly, a few grafs down)). Oh, and a nice collaboration > with another editor on [[Joseph Priestley House]]. > > Are there any further details on the circumstances of her death, like where > and what she was doing or attempting to do at the time? I ask only because > they will inevitably be reported in this year's "Accidents in North American > Mountaineering" along with the usual critique, and it would be useful to > know before reading it since names are not usually given and I would like to > know so I know when I'm reading about the death of an acquaintance. > > Daniel Case > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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