You can add info here if you knew him and some of his Wikimedia work and accomplishments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-08-04/Obituary
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I was friends with Kevin and talked to him often over email. He was a > tireless advocate of addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia and making the > projects less toxic. Besides his significant volunteer work on-wiki, he was > also a moderator of the gendergap mailing list (a difficult and thankless > job). He was always an advocate for those whose voices were not being heard > or those who were afraid to speak up due to fear of being attacked. He ran > for English Wikipedia ArbCom last year, and addressed some of these issues > in his candidate statement: "Our encyclopedia aims to encompass the sum of > all human knowledge - a lofty goal that we cannot possibly accomplish > unless we take steps to ensure that, to borrow from a recent public > comment, we’re sending no demographic into a cultural buzzsaw." > > Kevin was one of the countless unsung heroes of our movement, and his > passing is a tragic loss. I hope we can pay tribute to his memory by > continuing to work towards addressing the gender gap and eliminating > harassment on our projects. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
