It's shocking, horrible news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AaronSw/Election - he ran for the
Board in 2006. See
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians
"Making More Wikipedians".
Some more links and memories at
http://www.metafilter.com/123777/Open-access-open-internet-closed-book .
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation