On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians
Oh dear. I see from reading that page that not only have we lost
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians
Oh dear. I see from reading that page that not only have we lost Ben
Yates, but also Slrubenstein.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Rubenstein
I realize in my first note that I forgot to link Ben's meta page...
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tlogmer
a quick look at his contributions will remind some of us about the old
fundcom, Wikimania 2006 designs, Associations of Wikipedians and the
old store... Ben was one of the strongest
Those of you who have been around for a few years may remember
user:Tlogmer, aka Ben Yates -- co-author with Charles Matthews and I
on How Wikipedia Works.
I got an email from his mother this morning with the very sad news
that Ben passed away yesterday. I do not know the details. He was in
his
Oh, wow. I actually just got a copy of that book (wonderful book, by the
way) when I visited the office a couple weeks ago. I'm sorry to hear he
died so young.
The tradition of Wikipedia is to remember the fallen editors at the
Deceased Wikipedians page, if anyone has any appropriate
