A Wikipedia editor from Croydon, London, Roger Haworth began editing the English Wikipedia in January 2005, and was an administrator from August of that year until February 2020. As an admin, he mostly worked in new-page patrolling. When he was desysoped, according to the admin action stats at the time, he was ranked second overall for number of page deletions, sixth for undeletions, and fourth for protections. He died on 3 April 2024, aged 78.
TomCat4680 was a Wikipedian for just over eighteen years. He was often in the top 1000 Wikipedians by number of edits, where he appeared at the time of his passing, with 99,582 edits. TomCat4680 was involved in many articles and projects over the years. He helped update articles related to the Flint water crisis and COVID-19. Tom was born on Easter Sunday, April 6th, 1980 and died on Thanksgiving, November 28, 2024, at his home near Mount Morris, Michigan, after a brief illness. He is missed by family, friends, and his cat Paws that was at his side at the time of his passing.
Paweł Moszyński joined Wikipedia in August 2005. He became an administrator of the Polish Wikipedia in April 2011. Being born in 1941, he was one of the oldest editors and, for many years, its oldest sysop. Over almost 20 years, he made more than 90,000 contributions to Wikimedia projects, as well as more than 90,000 mark-ups of pending changes. He was a member of the Wikimedia Poland Association beginning in 2010. For years, he was the most active contributor to the photography workshops on both Wikipedia and Commons, helping people make a wide range of photographic edits ranging from simple crops to full restorations. He was recognized for this work on the English Wikipedia as an Editor of the Week in October 2023. An engineer by education, he taught metrology at Warsaw University of Technology for many years. He was a Varsovian and an active participant in local meetings in Warsaw, as well as national events. He passed away on 4 April 2025. He is missed by his wife, family, friends, and the Polish Wikimedia community.
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