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BeenAroundAWhile

BeenAroundAWhile made his first edit in 2006, and had contributed over 100,000 edits to the English Wikipedia by the time he died at age 90 on August 10, 2022. 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.

Bamber Gascoigne

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

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

Drgnu23

Drgnu23 (Irving Buchbinder, DPM) was a working podiatrist for forty-four years, and contributed to the English Wikipedia with medical knowledge as well as medical pictures from his practice. He died on February 23, 2022. His memorial is here.

Calton

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

Anthony Appleyard

Anthony Appleyard, who joined Wikipedia in 2004, was an admin who specialised in working on requests for page moves and history merges. He was also a member of WikiProject Underwater diving. He died on 28 February 2022 in Manchester. At the time of his death, he ranked in the top five (including bots) for all-time numbers of undeletions and uses of the history merge tool, per the admin stats page.

Moriori

Moriori first edited Wikipedia in 2003, and had over 22,000 edits over 18 years and became an admin 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.

Victor Blacus

Victor Blacus, in real life Dan Horia Constatinescu [1], died in 2022. He was admin at the Romanian Wikipedia.

Pde

Peter Eckersley was an Australian computer scientist, computer security researcher, and activist. He worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, including as chief computer scientist and head of AI policy. While at the EFF, Eckersley started projects including Let's Encrypt, Privacy Badger, Certbot, HTTPS Everywhere, SSL Observatory, and Panopticlick.

Peter was an early contributor to Wikipedia, participating at meetups in Melbourne. He died on September 2, 2022 in San Francisco.

Ahoerstemeier

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.