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Once again we are celebrating a person from the CEE region. This time it is Salicyna, a prolific contributor to the Wikimedia movement, boasting over 680,000 contributions across various projects. With a special focus on photographing roses.
Wikicelebrate is an initiative to Celebrate the pillars of our movement, the volunteers, whose tireless work makes Wikimedia possible. Every month we celebrate one person, and tell their story to the world. This month this is Salicyna, a wikipedian, a photographer, a Wikisource admin from Poland.
Salicyna knows the struggle of lacking access to knowledge all too well. Growing up in rural Poland, she was a passionate reader with no access to well-stocked libraries and cultural institutions. This was still in the pre-Internet times, and her family, struggling financially, couldn't provide the resources she yearned for. "I remember this unsatisfied hunger for knowledge as stronger and more severe than the physical hunger," she reflects. “Sadly”, she says “millions still face this very knowledge hunger today, restricted by geographical location, poverty, disabilities, or illness”. Salicyna sees Wikimedia projects, with their free access to knowledge and culture, as a powerful tool to help alleviate this yearning, at least partially.
Driven by a desire to offer others what she lacked as a child, Salicyna has become a prolific contributor to the Wikimedia movement, boasting over 680,000 contributions across various projects. She wears many hats: a Wikisource admin, an author of well-regarded medical articles on Wikipedia, a Wikibooks contributor, and a passionate photographer on Wikimedia Commons, specializing in roses and seedlings.
You can learn more about Salicyna on Diff or share some kind words on her meta Wikicelebrate page.
This is the third time WikiCelebrate is coming to the CEE region. In the past we celebrated Sara Horvat, a young wikimedian from Serbia, and Pinky sl, a Slovenian contributor and template creator.