I believe Andy arranged for this to happen and there is a blog out there 
somewhere

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> On Dec 28, 2019, at 11:37 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Yury,
> 
> I saw some excitement from people regarding this edit. However, I for one
> have been hesitant to make wider announcements about this. My personal
> concern is that, although I have every reason to believe that the
> contributor is who others claim that she is, the contributor did not self
> publish information that unambiguously communicated her identity in a
> public space in the Wikiverse.
> 
> ENWP can be highly protective of contributors' off wiki identities when
> contributors have not self published that information. ENWP can be so
> protective that there is friction within the community about whether paid
> conflict of interest editors are getting an unreasonable degree of
> protection. In this case, the contributor's username is highly suggestive
> of her identity. I regret if the caution seems to be excessive, but there
> are reasons to be cautious about announcing information about other
> Wikimedia contributors who have implied and not outright stated information
> about their identities.
> 
> I hope that in the near future this contributor will provide a small amount
> of further self disclosure about her off wiki identity, such as by simply
> writing her name on her userpage, and at that time I would be much more
> comfortable celebrating this edit. Again, I regret if this approach feels
> excessively cautious.
> 
> Respectfully,
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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