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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Ziko, thank you for everything you have done, both concerning the Netherlands and your international activities. We did not always shared the same views, but you were always open for debate and arguments. And you were always a honest and friendly person, a true Wikimedian.
Whatever your next endeavour will be, they can be happy to have your support.
All the best,
Pavel
Pavel Richter Am 30.03.2014 20:00 schrieb "Ziko van Dijk" vandijk@wmnederland.nl:
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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Despite all the arguments we had, I always respect the wikimedian you are, and with hindsight... even more
Hope to see you soon!
Charles
Le 30 mars 2014 à 19:59, Ziko van Dijk vandijk@wmnederland.nl a écrit :
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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Hope to see you again soon in whatever your next capacity may be!
sincerely, Kim Bruning
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 07:59:45PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
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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2014-03-30 19:59 GMT+02:00 Ziko van Dijk vandijk@wmnederland.nl:
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'.
[...]
Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.
Thank you, Ziko. See you soon.
Cristian
On Mar 30, 2014 6:59 PM, "Ziko van Dijk" vandijk@wmnederland.nl wrote:
After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland; yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.
More time for taking pictures!
Hope to see you again soon, perhaps at Wikimania?
Very sad to hear this - you have done so well. Hie to see you in London.
On 30 March 2014 18:59, Ziko van Dijk vandijk@wmnederland.nl wrote:
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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Farewell and good luck Ziko! You have the dubious notability of being the first Wikimedian I met outside my home country! Hopefully you'll still be active in the community and I'll see you around again!
Charles / User:Chuq Hobart, Australia
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Jon Davies jon.davies@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
Very sad to hear this - you have done so well. Hie to see you in London.
On 30 March 2014 18:59, Ziko van Dijk vandijk@wmnederland.nl wrote:
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
Dr. Ziko van Dijk
Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht http://wikimedia.nl
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Ziko,
Although as Presidents of chapters located on the opposite sides of the world I never had that much to do with you, when I *did* have cause to interact I always found you unfailingly polite, approachable, and unfailingly dedicated to our shared mission. Thankyou for your service, and I wish you all the very best in your future endeavours.
Cheers, Craig Franklin
On 31 March 2014 03:59, Ziko van Dijk vandijk@wmnederland.nl wrote:
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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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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Dear Ziko,
Let me take the opportunity to thank you for all the efforts over the past years. While we do not always agree on everything it was pleasure exchanging ideas with you and I felt that the leadership of the Dutch chapter was in great hands while you where the chair of the Dutch board. I am happy to see that some of your thinking behind the WCA has influenced other collaborations between chapters and thematic organisations. Wikimedia Netherlands has enjoyed three years of your leadership, and is so much the better for it!
Although some are expressing regret at seeing you go I am assuming that you are not going anywhere and that we will see you on the projects or maybe in some other volunteer role in the future.
Jan-Bart de Vreede Chair Wikimedia Board of Trustees
PS: I do not envy your successor for having to fill your role during “speech time”. I enjoyed every one of your introductions and talks at conferences and will miss the sentence “welkom vrienden van vrije kennis” (I hope I am quoting it accurately) and the always inspiring link to something “completely different” which turned out to not be so different after all :)
On 30 Mar 2014, at 19:59, Ziko van Dijk vandijk@wmnederland.nl wrote:
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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I hope it is just a "goodbye" chapter-wise and will be happy to share a beer with you in London (not an English one ;))
Flo
On 30/03/14 19:59, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
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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Thanks for all your hard work Ziko. It has always been appreciated.
Fae
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