This is very sad. John S.
Den ons 25 jan. 2023 kl 13:45 skrev Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net>: > A real loss, but his work will remain. > > Peter > > > > *From:* Johan Jönsson [mailto:brevlis...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 25 January 2023 09:38 > *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List > *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] In memory of Holger Ellgaard > > > > Holger Ellgaard – User:Holger.Ellgaard – has died. > > Holger was one of the most prolific article writers on Swedish Wikipedia, > having written thousands of articles, with a couple of hundred thousand > edits on Swedish Wikipedia and another hundred thousand edits on Commons, > where he had uploaded more than fifty thousand photographs since coming to > the Wikimedia movement in the spring of 2007. > > As we know, an edit count says very little in itself – myself, I have a > large number of minor fixes and few excellent articles. Holger, on the > other hand, wrote a large number of featured and good articles, the kind of > texts the community wanted to highlight as its best and put on the main > page for everyone to see. > > Having spent his professional life as an architect and with a passion for > photography, he wrote about buildings and city planning, architecture and > infrastructure. His articles were long, well sourced and full of > illustrations, usually his own photos. He liked to visit a place before > writing about it, photographing it and making sure he had the pictures he > wanted. > > Many of his best articles were more ambitious in scope. He wrote about > Swedish kitchen standard and the redevelopment of central Stockholm from > the 1950s to the 1970s. He wrote about any conceivable aspect of Stockholm > as a city: public toilets in Stockholm, traffic signals in Stockholm, > emergency housing in Stockholm, illuminated signs in Stockholm, railroad > tunnels in Stockholm and about so many other things. > > When Wikimedia Sweden started giving out an annual award to someone who > had contributed to free knowledge, Holger was the inaugural recipient. He > felt like an obvious choice. Not only because of the amount of work he had > put into writing his articles, but also his willingness to help anyone > writing within his area of expertise. > > He was a great public educator. And now he isn’t, and we’re less for his > absence. > > > > //Johan Jönsson > > -- > > > > > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > Virus-free.www.avg.com > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/MZY2RFP7DGRWQNMECGKOGA4QSCDKKPJ2/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >
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