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:Salicynaknows 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!
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@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:Salicynaknows 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/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/... To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
This was a beautiful read.
My interest in Polish Wikipedia and life in rural Poland has just piqued.
Congratulations Salicyna, You've got a new fan.
Thank you Natalia for writing so beautifully too.
Best,
On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 5:28 PM Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz < macieknadzikiewicz@gmail.com> wrote:
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
ᐧ
wt., 12 mar 2024 o 13:21 Natalia Szafran nszafran@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:Salicynaknows 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/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/... To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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