Dear all,
Wikimedia projects would not be possible without the work of the countless volunteers, passionately working on bringing free knowledge to the world. Through the year we WikiCelebrate https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate different volunteers and their amazing work. [1]
This time we celebrate Alberto Leoncio, a Wikimedian who likes to work on the backstage of the Portuguese Wikimedia projects. There are many reasons to celebrate Alberto, nowadays he manages bots, scripts, filters, templates and modules. He helps beginners to understand Wikipedia rules and policies, and engages in administrative work: protecting pages, and blocking vandals. “I wish whoever reads Wikipedia understands that it is not just a website to look for information, that Wikipedia is just one aspect of something much bigger, that there are several editors behind a single article, that there is a community behind each Wikipedia and that it goes much beyond that, with many projects in the wiki movement created by volunteers for free knowledge.” - he says. Visit WikiCelebrate https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Alberto_Leoncio [2] page to learn more about Alberto and congratulate him. You can also read about him on Diff https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/04/celebrating-alberto-leoncio/ [3] (the post is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Arabic).
Each month we will celebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the great people that have contributed so much to bringing us to where we are today, and continue to do so. We warmly invite you to write about the people celebrated each month. If you know them, share some wiki love. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that you think should be celebrated, recommend them https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate.[4]
Happy celebrating
Giyu, Natalia and Mehrdad
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Alberto_Leoncio
[3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/04/celebrating-alberto-leoncio/ [4] https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate