Thank you Ziko for your huge contribution to WMNL, to the chapters, and to the movement in general.
בהצלחה (Good luck) on whatever you going to do next.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Ziko van Dijk vandijk@wmnederland.nlwrote:
Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,
After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland; yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.
In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the movement was achieved, though.
Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation: coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community. And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some members.
But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.
Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of transition. Office space and employees, more members including more members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money, more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.
Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.
Kind regards Ziko
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland
Dr. Ziko van Dijk
Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht http://wikimedia.nl
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