Ziko, Although as Presidents of chapters located on the opposite sides of the world I never had that much to do with you, when I *did* have cause to interact I always found you unfailingly polite, approachable, and unfailingly dedicated to our shared mission. Thankyou for your service, and I wish you all the very best in your future endeavours.
Cheers, Craig Franklin On 31 March 2014 03:59, Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge, > > After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland; > yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'. > > In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great > people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps > and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free > knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the > movement was achieved, though. > > Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation: > coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the > average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I > was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community. > And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian > literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some > members. > > But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no > nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch > custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad. > > Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of > transition. Office space and employees, more members including more > members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money, > more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus > on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved > that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the > appropriate pride and good feelings about the future. > > Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at > whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting. > > Kind regards > Ziko > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Ziko van Dijk > > Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland > Postbus 167 > 3500 AD Utrecht > http://wikimedia.nl > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
