One thing to keep in mind is that there are a couple of million Wikimedia
accounts. Just by the law of averages, it's likely that someone who has a
Wikimedia account dies every day. Most of the time, we will never know
about it. I'd guess that a good percentage of the accounts that have been
That would enter the domain of naming guidelines and we don't have those in
general. Again, I have been pointing out since the first years of SUL.
For example a string can look terrible in one language but not another, you
have a normal user experience in one Wikipedia, and than you realize
Maybe a good approach would be also to have a global rename of the user
account to add something like _(.) so it is systematic and 'obvious' across
all Wikimedia projects - no?
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Deceased_editors I have created a stub.
It will grow.
it is just time, if we don't start to focus on one page, we will have this
discussion again and again. Now we can use that talk page or show the page as
target for future discussion.
You can start for
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
Seems a reasonable idea. Cheers, Peter
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If you want to do something outside, you have to do something properly here
first. You are not going to escape this step, IMHO.
A family might be also surprised if they discover that somebody had recognition
while their relative did not get it the same way. This would convince them of
the
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.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 6:25 PM Gnangarra wrote:
In some ways we do https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:In_Memoriam
Is not the same. In memoriam wiki pages are indelible memories for us as
wikimedians (thank you Risker/Anne for the response), but could mean less for
the families which are
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
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