Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2026
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Mark Miller (User:Mark Miller)
[edit]Mark Miller began editing Wikipedia in January 2007 and had made over 50,000 edits, expanding articles about a variety of topics, especially military history and Hawaii. Mark was proud of his Hawaiian heritage and descended from the formal Kamehameha family from the Royal Court of Kamehameha III. He took some pages to good and featured status and won the Million Award twice. He also helped out new users at the dispute resolution noticeboard and the teahouse. Mark was instrumental in the earliest days (late 2012) of the Editor of the Week award. He was known as User Amadscientist back then and was an integral participant in the creation discussions for Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention and the EDDY Award. Mark was an amazing artist, a passionate researcher and writer (especially genealogy), cook, gardener, avid outdoorsman, and enjoyed traveling. Just before his passing he had recently discovered a love of cooking, and enjoyed making lasagne especially for his neighbors. Mark will be dearly missed by his beloved lifelong partner of 37 years. They enjoyed many adventures together and especially loved traveling. Mark also loved his dogs Zeus and Loki, and they were important members of his family.
Prof. Madhav Gadgil (User:MadhavDGadgil)
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Prof. Madhav Gadgil was a founding figure in Indian ecology research. He did not edit Wikipedia much, but was aware of it from at least 2005. He made some edits on the Marathi wiki and wiktionary (under a different username) but most of all, he championed the Wikipedia idea. He spoke about it at many academic fora (from at least 2005 onwards) and was a prominent supporter of bottom-up community organizations for the well-being of the world including for the management of natural resources commons and the intellectual commons. One of his students worked with Elinor Ostrom, who pointed out the fallacy of the tragedy of the commons. He had many ideas for the creation of Indian village/town articles which he hoped could be managed in a decentralized way. When he was informed of how it might run afoul of WP:OR and pointed towards Wikidata, he was quite keen on exploring the idea of creating bots to seed the system. Towards the end of his life he was involved in disseminating the findings and recommendations of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel that he had headed. The report had been set aside by the state and an alternate was suggested by various power lobbies. The 2024 Wayanad landslides brought him into focus and he became almost a household name in the state of Kerala which rediscovered the recommendations of the report that could well have prevented much of the destruction.
Chip Berlet (User:Cberlet and User:Chip.berlet)
[edit]Chip Berlet was an American investigative journalist, research analyst, photojournalist, scholar, and activist specializing in the study of extreme right-wing movements in the United States. His Wikipedia activity focused on improving articles related to his field.
Fredrick Brennan (User:8chan.co, User:FredrickBrennan, User:Fredrick R. Brennan, and User:Psiĥedelisto)
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Fredrick Brennan had made over 11,000 contributions in his main User:Psiĥedelisto account, spanning across multiple Wikimedia projects; 9,807 in the English Wikipedia alone. He was prolific in his contributions to articles related to linguistics, typography and law (including Philippines law). Using his own open-source font editor MFEK, he designed free fonts (freely licensed for personal and commercial use) made available on his personal website. At least four of the articles Brennan wrote achieved good article status, according to his userpage: 2channel, Osteogenesis imperfecta (a condition he was born with), Deseret alphabet, and Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center. After 8chan, the site he founded, came under the management of Jim Watkins, it became a mecca for the QAnon conspiracy theory, and, later, housed the manifestos of the attackers of the 2019 Christchurch, Poway, and El Paso shootings. Brennan fought to have the site shut down and also participated in podcasts which critically researched QAnon. His founding of 8chan earned him a Wikipedia article, though he disputed his notability on his userpage. He spoke Esperanto fluently, and had at least some proficiency of Spanish, Tagalog, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, and Russian. He converted to Christianity in 2019.
Subas Chandra Rout (ଉଇକିମିଡିଆକୁ ଅବଦାନ)
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Obituary is located at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-03-31/Obituary#Subas Chandra Rout.
Gregory James Jones II (User:sjones23)
[edit]sjones23 contributed to the project for almost two decades, tallying up over 116,000 edits. He was heavily involved in the video game, film, anime, and music areas, with many creations, GAs, and FAs (48 good articles, 21 featured articles, created 30 articles at his last tally). He was also prolific in fostering discussions and helping Wikipedia's consensus-building efforts. See his obituary.
Richard Frank Dungar (1950 – 2026) was an editor from La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was a graduate of Aquinas High School and University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, and served as an archivist at Aquinas. Dungar was active on Wikipedia from 2005 until 2023. In that span, he became one of Wikipedia's most prolific article creators, ranking inside the top 100 Wikipedians by article count at the time of writing, and totaled over 200,000 edits. His areas of interest included Catholicism, U.S. state legislatures, and his home state of Wisconsin. For more information, see his obituary.