I'd like us to consider a more serious set of obits, after the fashion of the astronomers <https://baas.aas.org/obituaries>.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 6:25 PM Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com> wrote: > In some ways we do https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:In_Memoriam > > On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 04:46, Camelia Boban <camelia.bo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi everybody. >> >> Today, on the social media channels, we received the news about another >> wikimedian who is passed away: Steve Suleeman (User:Stephensuleeman from >> idwiki). As others in the recent or distant past: Spasimir Pilev >> (User:Спасимир Пилев from bgwiki), Pier Luigi Rocco (User:Moroboshi from >> itwiki), Elena Sanz Queiruga (User:ElsaBornFree from >> eswiki), User:SlimVirgin from enwiki, Krzysztof Machocki >> (User:Halibutt from plwiki). >> >> For these losses, I think we - as a community, through the Wikimedia >> Foundation - need to set up a fund to build a commemorative plaque to >> remember all the wikimedians we have lost. >> >> I would suggest it to be a thought from the community, extended also to >> all other major events of a wikimedian's life (marriage, birth of a child). >> We know a wikimedian often sacrifices the free time, dedicating a large >> part of their own real life to our projects and the movement. Would be a >> recognition from the community for the work done and a memory for the >> families, a "small gratitude to our fellow wikimedians" as someone said. >> >> I know that some affiliates are already doing this (eq. Wikimedia >> Indonesia), would be a lovely idea to do it in a centralized way at the >> level of the whole movement. >> >> What do you think? >> Camelia >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/GEA6C3J5KQA7C5A4HBRQ4VF4RLEOHWAA/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > -- > GN. > * 2021* > *Celebrating 20 years of Wikipedia* > > > Wikimania: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gnangarra > Noongarpedia: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys/Main_Page > My print shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Gnangarra/shop?asc=u > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/VMZ7GWTWBNLKNY3KR46UG7HDWF7ME2BW/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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