Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
My condolences to BabuG's family. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Josh Lim jamesjoshua...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Viswa, Thank you for this stirring tribute. Wikimedia Philippines and the Filipino Wikimedia community would like to share its deepest condolences and we hope that his family will be okay in this most trying of times. He will be sorely missed by both Malayalam and non-Malayalam editors alike. Regards, Josh Wiadomość napisana przez ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com w dniu 5 mar 2015, o godz. 23:07: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines jamesjoshua...@yahoo.com mailto:jamesjoshua...@yahoo.com | +63 (915) 321-7582 Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor http://about.me/josh.lim http://about.me/josh.lim ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Hi Thank you so much for this tribute. My condolences to you and all others who admired and loved him. Jan-Bart On 05 Mar 2015, at 16:07, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
BabuG has made remarkable contribution to the Malayalam Wikipedia. Heartfelt condolences for his family, friends and the Malayalam Wikipedia community. Regards, Tanweer Wikimedia Bangladesh On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Viswa, thank you for writing this lovely message and sharing the story of BabuG. His memory and edits will live on. Deepest condolences to the Malayalam community. Siko On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Dear Viswa and the Malayalam Wikimedia community, Deepest condolence for Balachandran's family for this great loss. This is a great loss for all of us, the entire Wikimedia community as well. May his blessed soul rest in peace. best, Subha Subhashish Panigrahi Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @psubhashish On 06-03-15 17:02, Anna Koval wrote: 3 Thank you, Viswa, for posting this tribute and sharing this eulogy. My heartfelt condolences to his wife Jagadamma, to his family, and to his wiki community. May his repose be blessed. May his memory be eternal. [1] Anna [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Eternal_%28chant%29 -- Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 ako...@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:07 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Dear Viswa, I am sorry for this loss that the Malayalam is experiencing. Please transmit my condoleances to his family and friends if you have the occasion to do so. 2015-03-05 16:07 GMT+01:00 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com: Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. Indeed he has. Cristian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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3 Thank you, Viswa, for posting this tribute and sharing this eulogy. My heartfelt condolences to his wife Jagadamma, to his family, and to his wiki community. May his repose be blessed. May his memory be eternal. [1] Anna [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Eternal_%28chant%29 -- Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 ako...@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:07 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Viswa, thank you for writing this lovely message and sharing the story of BabuG. His memory and edits will live on. Deepest condolences to the Malayalam community. Siko On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Dear Viswa and the Malayalam Wikimedia community, Deepest condolence for Balachandran's family for this great loss. This is a great loss for all of us, the entire Wikimedia community as well. May his blessed soul rest in peace. best, Subha Subhashish Panigrahi Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @psubhashish On 06-03-15 17:02, Anna Koval wrote: 3 Thank you, Viswa, for posting this tribute and sharing this eulogy. My heartfelt condolences to his wife Jagadamma, to his family, and to his wiki community. May his repose be blessed. May his memory be eternal. [1] Anna [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Eternal_%28chant%29 -- Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 ako...@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:07 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Subhashish Panigrahi Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Centre for Internet and Society @psubhashish / https://cis-india.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Dear Viswa, Thank you for letting us know, and for writing such a beautiful text in memory of your friend. Please send my condolences to his son. Much love, Andreas On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:07 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Thank you for this tribute and for sharing more about BabuG. I appreciated the chance to learn about him, how he came to Wikipedia, and the depth of his experience on the sites. His story inspires me. My condolences and sympathies are with you, BabuG's family, and the Malayalam community on this difficult day. Katy On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:07 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Eduardo Testart etest...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I was thinking, it is possible to create some sort of hall of fame from/for Wikipedia? It would be nice that stories like this one get a place to stay in time. Many wikis have a project-space page to commemorate deceased Wikipedians[1]. There also exists a putative central location on Meta, but it's underutilized. Nonetheless, because I agree this was a eulogy worth sharing, I have now pasted it there[2]. Asaf An admin added the username to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Deceased_contributors#to_do.2Fadd Jee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Hi all, On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 20:37:13 +0530 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. I'm sorry to read all that. My condolences extend to his family, friends and the people who collaborated with him online. I should note that I found the story in the message to be touching and inspiring. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang The Bajoran scholars have positively identified Benjamin Sisko as The Emissary. They also positively identified the NSA headquarters as The Dungeon. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/NSA/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Condolences to the community. I let the Signpost folks know, and there will be a writeup on this coming shortly. -Andrew On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Viswa, Thank you so much for letting us know of this editor's inspiring story. We are sorry to lose such an exemplary Wikimedian. I hope in his passing he had the satisfaction of feeling that in his late years he made the world a better place. Please contact me off-list if you would like this email to appear in the Signpost. Condolances to his family and the Malayalam Wikimedia community. Pine On Mar 5, 2015 7:08 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Thanks so much for this great tribute. Inspiring. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: Condolences to the community. I let the Signpost folks know, and there will be a writeup on this coming shortly. -Andrew On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Viswa, Thank you so much for letting us know of this editor's inspiring story. We are sorry to lose such an exemplary Wikimedian. I hope in his passing he had the satisfaction of feeling that in his late years he made the world a better place. Please contact me off-list if you would like this email to appear in the Signpost. Condolances to his family and the Malayalam Wikimedia community. Pine On Mar 5, 2015 7:08 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Project Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang
[Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
My deep condolences. Jee On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:37 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Hi all, I was thinking, it is possible to create some sort of hall of fame from/for Wikipedia? It would be nice that stories like this one get a place to stay in time. Just a though... El mar. 5, 2015 12:08 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com escribió: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
On 5 March 2015 at 20:37, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Wikiuser:BabuG Thanks Viswa for sharing the contributions and life of Babug - His story has been truly inspiring and touching. It is people like him, their passion and their lives that would continue to inspire the rest of us to stay focused on contributing to wikipedia. It gives a whole different meaning and purpose to these voluntary contributions. Surely a stalwart like him would be dearly missed. Condolences to his family and all wikimedians. Perhaps we should consider starting a project or an award in his memory for the malayalam community. regards Arun ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
