Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2022

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Bamber Gascoigne was a British television presenter and author, who presented the show University Challenge between 1962 and 1987. He was an editor and supporter of Wikipedia in its first decade, describing the project as an extraordinary global cooperative effort of which the best articles are unsurpassed and the worst rapidly improving. He died on 8 February 2022.

Nedim Ardoğa was an electronic engineer who contributed to the English Wikipedia with articles related to Turkey. He created over 2,000 articles. He died after a brief illness on February 21, 2022.

Irving Buchbinder was a working podiatrist for forty-four years, and contributed to the English Wikipedia with medical knowledge as well as medical photographs from his practice. He died on February 23, 2022. His memorial can be found here.

Calton Bolick first edited Wikipedia in 2004, and had made over 78,000 edits over his last 13 years. He died after a brief illness on February 25, 2022.

Anthony Appleyard, who joined Wikipedia in 2004, was an administrator who specialised in working on requests for

Moriori first edited Wikipedia in 2003, and had over 22,000 edits over 18 years and became an administrator in 2005. He mostly focused on pages about his home country, New Zealand, but also edited military articles. He appeared in the village stocks, a humorous page, after accidentally letting a prospective new editor move the main page with his account while she was at his computer. He died on 1 June 2022 in Kerikeri, New Zealand, aged 86.

Dan Horia Constantinescu [1] died in 2022. He was an administrator at the Romanian Wikipedia.

George Garrigues made his first edit in 2006, and had contributed over 100,000 edits to the English Wikipedia by the time he died, aged 90, on August 10, 2022. A journalist and journalism professor whose published books included a biography of his father Charles Harris Garrigues, on Wikipedia he specialized in history and journalism and was a firm believer in editorial civility and politeness. He made his last edit on July 23, 2022. See his obituary on Legacy Remembers.

Peter Eckersley was an Australian computer scientist,

Peter was an early contributor to Wikipedia, participating at meetups in Melbourne. He died on September 2, 2022, in San Francisco. His brain was preserved by the cryonics organization Alcor Life Extension Foundation soon after.^[1][2]

Andreas Hörstemeier died on September 26, 2022, after a long and serious illness. An administrator, he began editing the English Wikipedia in January 2003, being most active on the site from that year until 2008. He specialised in writing about his native Germany and Thailand, where his wife was born, especially districts of these countries, along with uploading many images to Commons and prolific editing at Wikidata. There is a condolence page for him on the German Wikipedia.

Lisa Lodwick

Kent G. Budge was a

Mary Adams Urashima was a historian with a focus on Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach, California. Mary wrote a book on Historic Wintersburg published in 2014 by the History Press. She passed away on November 20, 2022 after a battle with cancer.

Effie Kapsalis died on December 11, 2022. She was an inspiration and a force in the

The family has set up a site in her memory.

Ukrainian children's writer, activist, and longtime Wikipedia volunteer Volodymyr Vakulenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Володимирович Вакуленко; 1 July 1972 – 2022)^[4] was a prolific contributor to the Ukrainian Wikipedia, where he wrote articles on poetry and literature.

He was abducted and murdered by the invading Russian army during the Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast.^[5]

Tancredo Westphal Jr., also known to his friends as "Tarsky", was a professor of engineering and a prolific contributor to Portuguese Wikipedia. He created 16,204 articles and made over 200,000 contributions to Wikimedia. Most of his edits were on improving content on science, especially Brazilian scientists, and fighting vandalism. He passed away on April 5, 2022, and is remembered by the Portuguese-speaking community as "an exemplary editor" and a "dedicated Wikimedian".

David Thomsen died on November 25, 2022, at the age of 83. He was a prolific editor and a self-declared

.

Carl Hewitt (Prof. Hewitt, CarlHewitt and Prof. Carl Hewitt)

Carl Hewitt was an American computer scientist known for developing the actor model of computation. He participated vigorously on Wikipedia to make certain his area of expertise was adequately chronicled, getting blocked several times in the process. He died on December 7, 2022, announced by a Stanford University colleague.

References

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   . Retrieved 10 September 2022.
2. ^ "Complete List of Non-Confidential Cryopreserved Alcor Patients". Retrieved June 9, 2023.
3. ^ "Obituary: Kent Grimmett Budge Mar. 31, 1962 – Nov. 10, 2022". Los Alamos Reporter. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
4. ^ Foundation, Wikimedia (7 December 2022). "Volodymyr Vakulenko". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
5. ^ "Volodymyr Vakulenko killed by Russian occupiers". PEN Ukraine. 28 November 2022.