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Colin Hall (Spinningspark)
Colin Hall, a retired engineer and project manager from England, was an administrator who wrote many articles on technical subjects, especially the
Jo Pugh (Mr impossible)
Jo Pugh was a British Wikimedian for nigh on two decades. As an employee of the United Kingdom's National Archives, he led or spoke at several Wikipedia:GLAM-wiki events, as well as being a contributor to Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, both professionally and on his own time. He died on 22 February 2023, several years after first being diagnosed with cancer.
David Goodman (DGG)
David Goodman, a science librarian who began editing Wikipedia in 2006, was known for being helpful and willing to deal with a variety of complex problems, including conflict of interest and promotional editing. He was on Wikipedia's
Thomas Hibbs (Thibbs)
Thomas Hibbs was an enthusiastic Wikimedian since 2006. His love of knowledge was so great he returned to school for a library sciences degree. He had particular interest in preserving information on Vermont (his long time home), Hungary (where his family hailed from), vinyl records, books, and retro video games. Thibbs was an experienced and regular contributor who devoted his time to English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. He created 118 articles on many topics including a detail history of Hungarian animation, and a now lengthy article on the subject of nonviolent video games. He died on 14 April 2023, several years after being diagnosed with brain cancer, at the age of 41.
Deror Lin (Deror avi)
Deror Lin, a lawyer and Israeli Wikimedian since 2004, was one of the most prominent members of the Israeli community and the
Inoslav Bešker was a Croatian journalist and academic who worked as a correspondent in Rome for various media outlets. He earned a PhD in Comparative
Ingo Koll (Kipala)
Ingo Koll was a German who spent many years as a pastor and lecturer in Kenya and Tanzania. He was a longstanding and very active editor, bureaucrat and administrator on the Swahili Wikipedia. He was an early member of the Wikimedia Tanzania community, and created extensive editing education and training programs in
Donald Cram (Doncram)
Donald Peter Cram was an American Wikipedian who created over 13,500 main-space articles, and many more pages in total. Many of these focused on U.S. National Historic Register entries and U.S. National Historic Landmarks. He also worked on articles about
Peter McCawley (Pmccawley)
Dr. Peter McCawley, an economist from the
Eagleash, from
Theodor Otto Diener was a Swiss pathologist who was the first to recognize and name viroids, the smallest known infectious agent. He was awarded the National Medal of Science by the President of the United States in 1987; among many other honors. Diener died at his home in Beltsville, Maryland on 28 March 2023, at the age of 102. At the age of 96, he made 16 mainspace edits, mostly to improving viroid, and corrections to his own biography article, with oversight by an experienced editor, User:Graham Beards. He also made 78 mainspace edits using an earlier account, User:Dienerto. The Washington Post obituary (Archive) has more information.
Richard Haslam (Nosebagbear)
Richard Haslam was a British Wikimedian and administrator. He registered in 2012, and after a few years of dormancy, began editing in 2018. Successfully acquiring adminship the next year, he began using the tools extensively, helping out where he could in areas that ranged from
Wolf Dieter Haupt (Sarang)
Wolf Dieter Haupt was born on 11 April 1943 in Innsbruck, Austria. He studied telecommunications engineering at TU Wien, then began working as a programmer for many years in assembly language. Programming remained a constant preoccupation throughout his life, and in his many jobs in Austria, Switzerland and Germany he supported and encouraged young programmers. From 1980 he lived in Stuttgart and from 2010 in Bad Friedrichshall, Germany, where he built a Tiny House in a large garden, almost entirely by himself.
Dieter was interested in everything and was always curious about new things: people, languages, foreign countries, literature, nature, science and art. In Vienna, he took part in the events staged by the Viennese Actionism movement. He loved cycling and nature.
On Wikimedia Commons he was committed to the creation, maintenance and further improvement of templates, especially in the field of heraldry or the widely used One-letter templates, like Template:C or Template:F. So everytime we are using {{C|category name}}
or {{F|file name}}
he still lives on. Always friendly, level-headed, and deeply knowledgeable, he was unfailingly helpful.
Dieter died on 20 September 2023 from a very rapidly progressing cancer.
Please feel free to sign the list of condolences.
Steven B. Harris (Sbharris)
Dr. Steven B. Harris was born in Springville, Utah, USA, in 1957.
He obtained an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Brigham Young University, and a medical degree from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Dr. Harris did a fellowship in gerontology and geriatric medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, and was a biogerontology Research Fellow at UCLA until 1993. Board-certified in internal medicine, he practiced and taught geriatric medicine at the University of Utah Medical School. He made more than 38,000 contributions to Wikipedia, with a particular interest in the history of the American
He was cryonically preserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in November 2023.
Mary Hamlen (PMCH2)
Mary Hamlen was from Boston, Massachusetts. She worked to address gender equality on Wikimedia Projects. In addition to adding content since 2018 to Wikipedia (6,000 edits) and Wikidata (4,000 edits), Hamlen mentored new editors. She led regular in-person editing sessions with the
Tribute published at the Carleton College website, Polly's alma mater.