Hi everybody. 

Today, on the social media channels, we received the news about another wikimedian who is passed away: Steve Suleeman (User:Stephensuleeman from idwiki). As others in the recent or distant past: Spasimir Pilev (User:Спасимир Пилев from bgwiki), Pier Luigi Rocco (User:Moroboshi from itwiki), Elena Sanz Queiruga (User:ElsaBornFree from eswiki), User:SlimVirgin from enwiki, Krzysztof Machocki (User:Halibutt from plwiki).

For these losses, I think we - as a community, through the Wikimedia Foundation - need to set up a fund to build a commemorative plaque to remember all the wikimedians we have lost. 

I would suggest it to be a thought from the community, extended also to all other major events of a wikimedian's life (marriage, birth of a child). We know a wikimedian often sacrifices the free time, dedicating a large part of their own real life to our projects and the movement. Would be a recognition from the community for the work done and a memory for the families, a "small gratitude to our fellow wikimedians" as someone said.

I know that some affiliates are already doing this (eq. Wikimedia Indonesia), would be a lovely idea to do it in a centralized way at the level of the whole movement.

What do you think?

Camelia

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