Thank you so much for posting this Jake. I will dearly miss Jackson and his flow of good spirit and ideas.
SJ On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Jake Orlowitz <jorlow...@gmail.com> wrote: > User:Jackson Peebles is no longer with us, he passed away in late > October. Jackson was a Western Michigan University Honors student > studying behavioral science and biology. He worked as an ice hockey > referreee and volunteered with the Red Cross. His Wikipedia efforts > focused on counter-vandalism and adoption, "greeting new users, > encouraging civility, and [obsessively] reviewing recent changes". > > Jackson was a Teahouse host, an instructor in the Education Program, > and the lead on a Video Tutorials Project through the WMF. User:Go > Phightins! originaly adopted Jackson but he went on to run his own > adoption school and facilitated a Western Michigan University course > himself. Among his userboxes he said, "This user is not a Wikipedia > administrator but would like to be one someday." > > Jackson was born in 1992 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He graduated Mattawan > High School and was Senior Class President there. At Western Michigan > University, he was a 2011 Medallion Scholar. He worked at the Waldo > Library at the reference desk and volunteered for the National > Alliance for Mental Illness. He was one of three students in the > nation invited to represent the US at the International Red Cross and > Red Crescent’s Global Youth Conference in Vienna in 2012. > > Jackson had recently proposed a WMF Individual Engagment Grant called > Reimagining Wikipedia Mentorship. "I think this project is incredibly > important and should be pursued," User:EpochFail wrote in an > endorsement. The grant scored highly and looked likely to be funded. > "A very interesting concept...may become a 'keystone piece' in the new > editor onboarding process." wrote one IEG committee member. Another > wrote, "Taking a 'Teahouse approach' in building sustained motivation > and preventing editor dropouts is a wonderful opportunity to develop a > true mentor-mentee support system that would increase the activity of > new contributors." Finally, "Proposers are highly qualified and driven > mentors with a useful background in teaching new editors and > understanding the learning process." > > He was excitedly planning a trip to Australia in the coming weeks. > > On Wikipedia, Jackson earned barnstars in Mentorship, Random Acts of > Kindness and Resilience. Friends and teachers glowingly recalled his > sense of humor and his hard work ethic. > > His last edit to our site was on October 21 2013, the day he died. > Jackson welcomed an i.p. editor to Wikipedia: "Thank you for your > contributions, such as the one you made to Nikah mut‘ah. I hope you > like the place and decide to stay." > > Please leave remembrances and condolences at > http://enwp.org/User_talk:Jackson_Peebes. We'll try and contact the > family and share your thoughts with them. You can read more > reflections on Jackson's amazing life there. Donations to the > Kalamazoo NAMI chapter would have made Jackson very happy and are the > family's wish. > > --Ocaasi14:26, 20 November 2013 (UTC) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>