A well respected Wikipedian passes away...

When I logged on to check my email and onwiki messages a few hours ago, it struck me when I began to see 'Wikipedian passes away' across many blogs and onwiki itself.

[[User:Jeffpw]] gave over 9,000 edits to the English Wikipedia, and it was quite amazing to see the amount of support given to his family and close friends at the special memorial page created at [[User talk:Jeffpw/Memoriam]].

My thoughts are with Jeff's friends and family during this time of sad loss. He will be missed across the project and it was great to have him contribute to our aim of an encyclopedia containing the sum of all human knowledge.

James

Brisbane WikiMeetup

The Brisbane team of Wikimedians have decided that we should have another WikiMeetup sometime in the next school holidays (early-mid July). We have decided on four prospective dates - 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th of July.

Alex (User:Giggy) spammed the categories this morning with Giggabot and hopefully we can decide on a location and date/time sometime soon. I suggested The Coffee Club at Toowong, been there once and enjoyed their service.

We have created the meetup page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/2. If you are from Brisbane or surrounds, active on a Wikimedia project and would like to join us, please sign up today!

I look forward to meeting more local Wikimedians :)