Roses are red, Salicyna made their links blue and we are here, to Wikicelebrate her with you! - Wikimedia-l

12 Mar 2024

Hi all,

Once again we celebrate an exceptional Wikimedian, this time - an admin, a
contributor, a person with many roles in Wikimedia projects.

Salicyna <https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikiskryba:Salicyna>knows the
struggle of lacking access to knowledge all too well. Growing up in rural
Poland, she was a passionate reader with no access to well-stocked
libraries and cultural institutions. This was still in the pre-Internet
times, and her family, struggling financially, couldn't provide the
resources she yearned for. "I remember this unsatisfied hunger for
knowledge as stronger and more severe than the physical hunger," she
reflects. “Sadly”, she says “millions still face this very knowledge hunger
today, restricted by geographical location, poverty, disabilities, or
illness”. Salicyna sees Wikimedia projects, with their free access to
knowledge and culture, as a powerful tool to help alleviate this yearning,
at least partially.

Driven by a desire to offer others what she lacked as a child, Salicyna has
become a prolific contributor to the Wikimedia movement, boasting over
680,000 contributions across various projects. She wears many hats: a
Wikisource admin, an author of well-regarded medical articles on Wikipedia,
a Wikibooks contributor, and a passionate photographer on Wikimedia
Commons, specializing in roses and seedlings.

Today we WikiCelebrate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate> her
contributions to the Wikimedia Movement!

Learn more about her Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource contributions and her
story on Diff blog
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/03/12/roses-are-red-salicyna-makes-their-links-blue-we-celebrate-her-and-the-content-she-grew/>
(available in English, French, Polish, Spanish) or Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Salicyna>
(where you can also congratulate Salicyna!).

Each month we WikiCelebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the
amazing community, the pillars of our movement. We warmly invite you to
participate in the celebrations. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that
you think should be celebrated, recommend them
<https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate>.

Happy celebrating!

-- 
*Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska* (she/her)
Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (European Region)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>