Congratulations Salicyna, you deserved it!
For those of you who don't edit Polish Wikipedia (you really should, people
there are amazing!), if you see an article edited by Salicyna you can be
sure that it meets all the criteria. Most of her DidYouKnow articles go
through confirmation without any discussion and corrections. It is a
pleasure working with her.
I hope you can meet her this summer at Wikimania 2024 in Katowice, Poland!
Cheers,
--
Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (He/him)
Wikimania 2024 Poland – Team Lead
Wikimedia Europe Board Member
Wikipedia Administrator
User:Nadzik <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nadzik>
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wt., 12 mar 2024 o 13:21 Natalia Szafran <nszafran(a)wikimedia.org>
napisał(a):
Hi all,
Once again we celebrate an exceptional Wikimedian, this time - an admin, a
contributor, a person with many roles in Wikimedia projects.
Salicyna <https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikiskryba:Salicyna>knows the
struggle of lacking access to knowledge all too well. Growing up in rural
Poland, she was a passionate reader with no access to well-stocked
libraries and cultural institutions. This was still in the pre-Internet
times, and her family, struggling financially, couldn't provide the
resources she yearned for. "I remember this unsatisfied hunger for
knowledge as stronger and more severe than the physical hunger," she
reflects. “Sadly”, she says “millions still face this very knowledge hunger
today, restricted by geographical location, poverty, disabilities, or
illness”. Salicyna sees Wikimedia projects, with their free access to
knowledge and culture, as a powerful tool to help alleviate this yearning,
at least partially.
Driven by a desire to offer others what she lacked as a child, Salicyna
has become a prolific contributor to the Wikimedia movement, boasting over
680,000 contributions across various projects. She wears many hats: a
Wikisource admin, an author of well-regarded medical articles on Wikipedia,
a Wikibooks contributor, and a passionate photographer on Wikimedia
Commons, specializing in roses and seedlings.
Today we WikiCelebrate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate> her
contributions to the Wikimedia Movement!
Learn more about her Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource contributions and
her story on Diff blog
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/03/12/roses-are-red-salicyna-makes-their-links-blue-we-celebrate-her-and-the-content-she-grew/>
(available in English, French, Polish, Spanish) or Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Salicyna>
(where you can also congratulate Salicyna!).
Each month we WikiCelebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the
amazing community, the pillars of our movement. We warmly invite you to
participate in the celebrations. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that
you think should be celebrated, recommend them
<https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate>.
Happy celebrating!
--
*Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska* (she/her)
Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (European Region)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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