Thanks, Tilman and Ivan. It sounds like there is some great material for a remembrance of a legendary thinker and Wikipedia advocate on the blog. Perhaps we can take a day or two to pull it all together.
Best, Jeff Jeff Elder Digital communications manager Wikimedia Foundation 704-650-4130 @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Wikinews did an interview with him in 2010, see e.g. the summary at > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-08-09/In_the_news > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Ivan Martínez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah! I will search some quotes/paragraphs to add. I think our friends of > > Wikimedia Italia can support also. > > > > > > 2016-02-19 20:05 GMT-06:00 Jeff Elder <[email protected]>: > >> > >> Hi Ivan, > >> > >> We have posted three times so far about Mr. Eco, but not yet about his > >> contributions to Wikipedia. That sounds like it would make a great blog > >> post. Let me bring it up with the team. Do you have some links or > examples > >> you think would be good to include? > >> > >> Jeff Elder > >> Digital communications manager > >> Wikimedia Foundation > >> 704-650-4130 > >> @jeffelder > >> @wikipedia > >> The Wikimedia blog > >> > >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Ivan Martínez <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi > >>> A few hours ago author and philosopher Umberto Eco passed away. AFAIK > he > >>> was a permanent viewer, critic and an public enthusiast of Wikipedia, > and > >>> wrote some articles related to the encyclopedia. I think it was > valuable > >>> that a thinker of its importance pointed at least since 2008 the > importance > >>> of Wikipedia in the contemporary world. > >>> > >>> Can we post something about him in the social networks? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> -- > >>> Iván Martínez > >>> Presidente - Wikimedia México A.C. > >>> User:ProtoplasmaKid > >>> @protoplasmakid > >>> > >>> Hemos creado la más grande colección de conocimiento compartido. Ayuda > a > >>> proteger a Wikipedia, dona ahora: > >>> https://donate.wikimedia.org > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Social-media mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Social-media mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Iván Martínez > > Presidente - Wikimedia México A.C. > > User:ProtoplasmaKid > > @protoplasmakid > > > > Hemos creado la más grande colección de conocimiento compartido. Ayuda a > > proteger a Wikipedia, dona ahora: > > https://donate.wikimedia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Social-media mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > > > > > -- > Tilman Bayer > Senior Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >
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