Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Coyau

2016-12-09 Thread Shlomi Fish 
On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:22:26 -0800
Guillaume Paumier  wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> It is with great sadness that I must share the news of the passing of
> User:Coyau, a pillar of the francophone Wikimedia community.
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coyau
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coyau
>

Sorry to hear about that.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Coyau

2016-12-08 Thread Anna Stillwell 
Great sadness, indeed.

"He had made over 1.5 million edits across Wikimedia projects." A
significant legacy.

Warmly,
/a

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Sydney Poore 
wrote:

> I'm sorry to hear this news about the passing of User:Coyau. My
> condolences to his wiki friends and colleagues.
>
> Thank you, Guillaume, for suggesting a way that we can recognize and
> honor him by adding his images to articles. I'll pass that suggestion
> on to Wikimedians I know.
>
> Warm regards,
> Sydney
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Guillaume Paumier
>  wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It is with great sadness that I must share the news of the passing of
> > User:Coyau, a pillar of the francophone Wikimedia community.
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coyau
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coyau
> >
> > He joined our community over a decade ago, and had become an active
> > editor on several French-language wikis (Wikipedia, Wikisource,
> > Wiktionary), as well as a prolific contributor to Commons and
> > Wikidata. He had made over 1.5 million edits across Wikimedia
> > projects. We learned of his death on Tuesday; he was 38.
> >
> > He was deeply committed, delightfully absurd, and absolutely genial.
> > You may have met him if you've ever had drinks with Wikimedians in
> > Paris. He also had a blog in French where he wrote about Wikimedia
> > projects and shared tutorials about topics like photo processing for
> > other Wikimedians to learn:
> > http://coyau.blogspot.com/
> >
> > He was a genuine and soulful human being, whose sudden death has left
> > many of his wiki friends and colleagues heartbroken. His loss is felt
> > profoundly among the communities, where people have been expressing
> > their grief and condolences on his talk page:
> > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_utilisateur:Coyau#Bip_bip_bip.
> ..
> >
> > He had uploaded thousands of files on Commons, among which a photo of
> > a deflated yellow balloon in a tree (which has become emblematic of
> > him), and a stitched 360° panorama assembled from 219 photos of a
> > seemingly random Parisian street:
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quai_de_la_Seine_(
> Paris),_baudruche.jpg
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris,_Rue_Watt.jpg
> >
> > As an homage, you are invited to browse his photos on Wikimedia
> > Commons and add them to articles and pages in need of relevant
> > pictures:
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_by_User:Coyau
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Paumier
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Coyau

2016-12-08 Thread Sydney Poore 
I'm sorry to hear this news about the passing of User:Coyau. My
condolences to his wiki friends and colleagues.

Thank you, Guillaume, for suggesting a way that we can recognize and
honor him by adding his images to articles. I'll pass that suggestion
on to Wikimedians I know.

Warm regards,
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight





On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Guillaume Paumier
 wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It is with great sadness that I must share the news of the passing of
> User:Coyau, a pillar of the francophone Wikimedia community.
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coyau
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coyau
>
> He joined our community over a decade ago, and had become an active
> editor on several French-language wikis (Wikipedia, Wikisource,
> Wiktionary), as well as a prolific contributor to Commons and
> Wikidata. He had made over 1.5 million edits across Wikimedia
> projects. We learned of his death on Tuesday; he was 38.
>
> He was deeply committed, delightfully absurd, and absolutely genial.
> You may have met him if you've ever had drinks with Wikimedians in
> Paris. He also had a blog in French where he wrote about Wikimedia
> projects and shared tutorials about topics like photo processing for
> other Wikimedians to learn:
> http://coyau.blogspot.com/
>
> He was a genuine and soulful human being, whose sudden death has left
> many of his wiki friends and colleagues heartbroken. His loss is felt
> profoundly among the communities, where people have been expressing
> their grief and condolences on his talk page:
> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_utilisateur:Coyau#Bip_bip_bip...
>
> He had uploaded thousands of files on Commons, among which a photo of
> a deflated yellow balloon in a tree (which has become emblematic of
> him), and a stitched 360° panorama assembled from 219 photos of a
> seemingly random Parisian street:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quai_de_la_Seine_(Paris),_baudruche.jpg
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris,_Rue_Watt.jpg
>
> As an homage, you are invited to browse his photos on Wikimedia
> Commons and add them to articles and pages in need of relevant
> pictures:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_by_User:Coyau
>
> --
> Guillaume Paumier
>
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