Really sad news, I can't even believe it. My heart is with you, guys, and
with Alessio.
Patricio
2014-10-18 10:24 GMT-03:00 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com>:
> It is with great sorrow that Wikimedia Italia announces the death of
> Alessio Guidetti, better known on the projects as Cotton. He has been
> treasurer of the organization for about five years, from 2009 until last
> April.
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> Alessio started to contribute to Wikipedia at the end of 2006: after a few
> months he became already a sysop. He was a tireless translator of English
> articles in the most diverse fields, and also part of the small group of
> the patrollers -and, indeed, he continued his precious work until the last,
> even if invisible for most of the editors.
>
> From the moment he joined Wikimedia Italia, Alessio was very keen to
> contribute effectively, guided by his well-known pragmatism. He run for the
> Board: as soon as he was elected, he took the role of treasurer, a
> difficult task and a fundamental one for us but little recognized. It was
> Alessio who took care of the most delicate and complicated tasks, and he
> did so in the years during which Wikimedia Italia was starting to grow big,
> the years of our quantum leap.
>
> This spring he decided to not run again for the Board, but he kept
> collaborating with his successor for an effective -and not only formal-
> handover. He took care of the accounting, donations and employees'
> paychecks till his very last days. He has been an incredible help:
> trustworthy, precious, always ready for a joke.
>
> Alessio has been a pillar of Wikimedia Italia: his pragmatism, his
> hardworking disposition, his sense of humor were, and are, a part of our
> organization. A part of how it was born and how it is growing. A part of
> what we are.
>
> Wikimedia Italia is close to the family and the friends of Alessio in this
> grievous moment.
>
> We will terribly miss him.
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> Many of you have know Alessio in Wikimanias and conferences.
>
> If you wish, you can leave a last goodbye here on his userpage:
> https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_utente:Cotton#Ciao.
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> Andrea Zanni
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> on behalf of Wikimedia Italia
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