Hi all,

As you may have heard, we recently lost Adrianne Wadewitz (User:Wadewitz) to a climbing accident.

Adrianne served on the board of the Wiki Education Foundation. She had a Ph.D. in English Literature and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Digital Learning and Research at Occidental College.

You can watch a video of her discussing Wikipedia at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_of_Wikipedia_Adrianne_Wadewitz.webm. You may recognize her from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_Of_Wikipedia.webm.

Relevant links are below. Condolences are being left on her talk page on English Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wadewitz. Her partner has posted on her talk page that memorial services will be held Monday, April 14 in Los Angeles and Saturday, April 26 in Indiana.

Pine

* https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedian_activist_Adrianne_Wadewitz_dies
* http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2014/04/10/remembering-adrianne-wadewitz-scholar-communicator-teacher-leader
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wadewitz