- Uładzimir Katkoŭski
Uładzimir Katkoŭski ( _be. Уладзімер Каткоўскі,
June 19 ,1976 —May 25 ,2007 ) was aBelarus ian blogger, web designer and website creator.Biography
Uładzimir Katkoŭski was born in
Minsk . He got a degree inComputer Science at theAmerican University in Bulgaria inBlagoevgrad and later worked as IT specialist inBudapest , then inFrankfurt am Main . Since 2002 he worked in the Belarusian edition ofRadio Free Europe .On June 16, 2006 he and his wife got into a
car accident on a street inPrague . Since that Uładzimir was incoma for almost one year until he passed away onMay 26 ,2007 .Activity on the Internet
In mid-1990ies Uładzimir Katkoŭski became one of the pioneers of the Belarusian speaking internet. In late 1990s together with his future wife and other Belarusian internet users he created the Belarusian historical website "Litvania" that got notable popularity. Uładzimier was one of the first and most popular
blogger s inBelarusian language known as "rydel23". For his blog "br23.net" he was [http://content.tut.by/2006.html awarded] by the Belarusian top web portalTUT.by .Uładzimir created the websites "Pravapis.org" (about issues concerning Belarusian language), "Martyraloh Biełarusi" - "The Belarusian Martyrologe" about victims of
Stalinist terror in Belarus. He translated the interface ofGoogle into Belarusian, and was the founder of theBelarusian Wikipedia . As () Uładzimier was an active contributor to theEnglish Wikipedia .He was creator and administrator of the website of the Belarusian edition of
Radio Free Europe .External links
* [http://www.br23.net Blog by Uładzimir Katkoŭski] , in Belarusian and English
* [http://rydel23.livejournal.com Rydel's blog]
* [http://www.pravapis.org Pravapis.org]
* [http://www.martyraloh.org/ Martyraloh] - The Belarusian Martyrologue
* [http://litvania.freeservers.com/ "Litvania, the land of litvins"]
* [http://archive.svaboda.org/articlesfeatures/man/2007/5/8490788e-59c2-4afe-8e01-cb30484f6e07.html An obituary] , "Radio Free Europe " Belarusian Edition
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
