Actually, many projects maintain the list of deceased users. English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians
Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deceased_contributors Meta is up the thread. We should also realize that a significant part of our active editors / administrators are over 50, meaning that in 10 years we will have many more names than we have now. Best Yaroslav On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 1:45 PM Peter Southwood <peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > Seems a reasonable idea. Cheers, Peter > > > > *From:* Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l [mailto: > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org] > *Sent:* 09 November 2021 14:16 > *To:* 'Wikimedia Mailing List' > *Cc:* Alessandro Marchetti > *Subject:* [Marketing Mail] [Wikimedia-l] Re: Small gratitude to our > fellow wikimedians > > > > > > Yes, a user status/right “deceased" is IMHO important. It was also the > reason why I expected a SUL policy to be created soon or later. I tried two > or three time to raise the issue since 2016. > > > > Now some projects block accounts, but it's not a standard process. It has > to be fixed soon or later. At the moment, a relative can reuse an old > account in theory on another platform, if they wish to do so. For example I > find archive of images of my deceased partner and despite the user being > blocked on a local wikipedia, I start to upload them on Commons in their > name. Everybody has their way to cope with grief. Do we accept this or not? > > > > Alessandro > > Il martedì 9 novembre 2021, 10:17:51 CET, Geert Van Pamel < > geert...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > > > > I do find this an excellent proposal. > > > > Wouldn’t it be good to also implement a user status/right “deceased” to > identify those accounts? > > > > This information could be shown to their user rights page e.g. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights/Geertivp? > > > > One could get a list of volunteers that are no longer amongst us via > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers. > > > > *Geert Van Pamel* > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines%20>and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/VVK2TIYRJ56RL7JB2SDBZ2VPLZLSC7L3/ > > > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > Virus-free. www.avg.com > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/SB672P4RHNHF3F3E7TIDXBT56ZKQMUJ4/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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