I have always enjoyed Erik's insightful input - especially the insights
that people don't like to hear at first. I trust that much more of that is
to come in the future, so I'm not ready to say farewells :). I wouldn't be
able to accurately summarize it anyway.
Erik, I hope that you'll find a lot of joy in the beautiful tree project
that you're working on these days (folks, definitely check it out if you're
interested in Leiden's horticulture). It is another beautiful example of
how you manage to visualize the things that sound dull without you
explaining them. Your presentations at Wikimania were for that reason
usually the ones I most looked forward to.
What maybe not everyone realizes, is that Erik is one of the people that
the French Wikipedia would categorize as 'Grand Ancients
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Grands_Anciens>',
having been active since 2001. A unique understanding of the history of
Wikipedia combined with dedication and understanding data has clearly
resulted in good work. Thanks for summarizing this so elaborately, Dario :)
Until soon,
Lodewijk
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 1:54 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your work, Erik. I hope that we will see
you in the future.
This is the first time that I can recall hearing about a person retiring
from WMF. Volunteer retirements and semi-retirements happen regularly, and
the reasons that I hear for those retirements are often sad. It's nice to
hear of someone who is retiring after years of success and is moving in a
positive direction.
I think that you leave a good legacy in the Wikiverse, and as you might
guess from my username, I like what you chose for your next project.
Best wishes,
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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