Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-23 Thread Sam Oyeyele
May his soul rest in perfect peace! Sam. From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Ravishankar Ayyakkannu Sent: 17 February 2018 12:25 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed I am sad to know this news about User:Bhadani's d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-21 Thread Ravishankar Ayyakkannu
I am sad to know this news about User:Bhadani's demise. I knew him as a very wise person with an open mind. That he chose to write his autobiography as a Wikipedian shows how much he valued the movement. My heartfelt condolences to his family. Ravi On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Sydney Poor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-18 Thread Pine W
Thank you for this information. I did some research on Gangadhar and learned that he made over 200,000 edits to English Wikipedia. An interview of him was published here: https://webtour.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/interview-with-mrgangadhar-bhadani-indias-most-prolific-wikipedian-part-1/ People wh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-12 Thread Sydney Poore
Very sorry to learn of his passing. He will be missed. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians, Co-founder WikiWomen User Group, Co-founder WikiConference North America Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Md. Ibrahim Husain

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-12 Thread Dumisani Ndubane
He will be sorely missed. Condolences to his community members and family. *Dumisani Ndubane* Monitoring & Evaluation Strategist Wikimedia Foundation ✆ | +27 74 587 8616 ✉ | dndub...@wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/ *"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely sha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 07:56:01 +0600 "Md. Ibrahim Husain" wrote: > Our fellow Wikipedian Gangadhar Bhadani has passed away 8th February 2018. > He was one of the active Indian Wikipedians on English passionately > contributing since 2005. > May his soul rest in peace. > sorry to hear that. > Moha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-09 Thread Asaf Bartov
Gangadhar was a super-active, dedicated English Wikipedian. He was also a mentor to several other Wikipedians. He will be missed. It may interest some of you to know he published an autobiography last year, titled "Choice in Chaos: A Wikipedian's Autobiography"[1]. (I haven't read it myself yet

[Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-09 Thread Md. Ibrahim Husain
Our fellow Wikipedian Gangadhar Bhadani has passed away 8th February 2018. He was one of the active Indian Wikipedians on English passionately contributing since 2005. May his soul rest in peace. Mohammad Ibrahim Husain Meraj Member, Wikimedia Bangladesh ___