Actually, many projects maintain the list of deceased users.
English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians
Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deceased_contributors
Meta is up the thread.
We should also realize that a significant part of our active editors / administrators are over 50, meaning that in 10 years we will have many more names than we have now.
Best Yaroslav
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 1:45 PM Peter Southwood peter.southwood@telkomsa.net wrote:
Seems a reasonable idea. Cheers, Peter
*From:* Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l [mailto: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org] *Sent:* 09 November 2021 14:16 *To:* 'Wikimedia Mailing List' *Cc:* Alessandro Marchetti *Subject:* [Marketing Mail] [Wikimedia-l] Re: Small gratitude to our fellow wikimedians
Yes, a user status/right “deceased" is IMHO important. It was also the reason why I expected a SUL policy to be created soon or later. I tried two or three time to raise the issue since 2016.
Now some projects block accounts, but it's not a standard process. It has to be fixed soon or later. At the moment, a relative can reuse an old account in theory on another platform, if they wish to do so. For example I find archive of images of my deceased partner and despite the user being blocked on a local wikipedia, I start to upload them on Commons in their name. Everybody has their way to cope with grief. Do we accept this or not?
Alessandro
Il martedì 9 novembre 2021, 10:17:51 CET, Geert Van Pamel < geertivp@gmail.com> ha scritto:
I do find this an excellent proposal.
Wouldn’t it be good to also implement a user status/right “deceased” to identify those accounts?
This information could be shown to their user rights page e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights/Geertivp?
One could get a list of volunteers that are no longer amongst us via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers.
*Geert Van Pamel*
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