Very sad new! My condolences to the family and all his friends in the
community.
B/R!
Hasive
User: Nhasive
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
subhashish(a)cis-india.org> wrote:
Really sad news! Condolences to the family.
Best!
Subha
On 19 ଅକ୍ଟୋବର 2014, at 7:17 am, Asaf Bartov
<abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Terrible news. I had the pleasure of knowing him, and had a few
interesting conversations with him over the years.
Like the best, he was modest, tireless, and collegial.
My condolences to the family and all his friends in the community.
Asaf
> On Oct 18, 2014 6:26 AM, "Andrea Zanni" <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> It is with great sorrow that Wikimedia Italia announces the death of
> Alessio Guidetti, better known on the projects as Cotton. He has been
> treasurer of the organization for about five years, from 2009 until last
> April.
>
> Alessio started to contribute to Wikipedia at the end of 2006: after a
few
> months he became already a sysop. He was a
tireless translator of
English
> articles in the most diverse fields, and also
part of the small group of
> the patrollers -and, indeed, he continued his precious work until the
last,
> even if invisible for most of the editors.
>
> From the moment he joined Wikimedia Italia, Alessio was very keen to
> contribute effectively, guided by his well-known pragmatism. He run for
the
> Board: as soon as he was elected, he took the
role of treasurer, a
> difficult task and a fundamental one for us but little recognized. It
was
> Alessio who took care of the most delicate
and complicated tasks, and he
> did so in the years during which Wikimedia Italia was starting to grow
big,
> the years of our quantum leap.
>
> This spring he decided to not run again for the Board, but he kept
> collaborating with his successor for an effective -and not only formal-
> handover. He took care of the accounting, donations and employees'
> paychecks till his very last days. He has been an incredible help:
> trustworthy, precious, always ready for a joke.
>
> Alessio has been a pillar of Wikimedia Italia: his pragmatism, his
> hardworking disposition, his sense of humor were, and are, a part of our
> organization. A part of how it was born and how it is growing. A part of
> what we are.
>
> Wikimedia Italia is close to the family and the friends of Alessio in
this
grievous
moment.
We will terribly miss him.
Many of you have know Alessio in Wikimanias and conferences.
If you wish, you can leave a last goodbye here on his userpage:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_utente:Cotton#Ciao.
Andrea Zanni
on behalf of Wikimedia Italia
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