I wholeheartedly join this well-deserved tribute to one of the most passionate, affable, active, and competent Wikipedians in the pursuit of free and universal knowledge I know, whom I had the great pleasure of meeting in person a few weeks ago. A big hug to Alberto, and thank you very much!
Paulo Giselle Bordoy <[email protected]> escreveu no dia segunda, 4/12/2023 à(s) 16:36: > Dear all, > > Wikimedia projects would not be possible without the work of the countless > volunteers, passionately working on bringing free knowledge to the world. > Through the year we WikiCelebrate > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate> different > volunteers and their amazing work. [1] > > This time we celebrate Alberto Leoncio, a Wikimedian who likes to work on > the backstage of the Portuguese Wikimedia projects. There are many reasons > to celebrate Alberto, nowadays he manages bots, scripts, filters, > templates and modules. He helps beginners to understand Wikipedia rules and > policies, and engages in administrative work: protecting pages, and > blocking vandals. “I wish whoever reads Wikipedia understands that it is > not just a website to look for information, that Wikipedia is just one > aspect of something much bigger, that there are several editors behind a > single article, that there is a community behind each Wikipedia and that it > goes much beyond that, with many projects in the wiki movement created by > volunteers for free knowledge.” - he says. Visit WikiCelebrate > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Alberto_Leoncio> > [2] page to learn more about Alberto and congratulate him. You can also > read about him on Diff > <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/04/celebrating-alberto-leoncio/> [3] > (the post is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Arabic). > > Each month we will celebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the > great people that have contributed so much to bringing us to where we are > today, and continue to do so. We warmly invite you to write about the > people celebrated each month. If you know them, share some wiki love. If > there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that you think should be celebrated, > recommend > them <https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate>.[4] > > > Happy celebrating > > Giyu, Natalia and Mehrdad > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate > > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Alberto_Leoncio > > [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/04/celebrating-alberto-leoncio/ > [4] https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate > > -- > > Giselle Bordoy (ella/she/her) > > Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (Latin America) > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], 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/[email protected]/message/JWAW4J6DTKQLWPQUXKMJWWIZREV4UKUE/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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