Truly inspiring story. Thank you for sharing Ravi. On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I wanted to share this real life story of a man who edited Tamil wikipedia > from prison ! > > Meet Muthukrishnan ( http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/fcl ) from Malaysia. He is > a retired school teacher and writer. He uses most of his spare time for > writing detailed articles about Malaysia and Tamils in Malaysia. He is so > involved in Wikipedia that once he personally visited the grave of a > personality to write an article on him ! > > Few weeks back, he was arrested by the Malaysian police on a case that > challenged his freedom of expression for an article he wrote in a magazine > (just to make it clear that he didn't create a real "crime" to land in > prison). He was out of the prison in couple of days. > > What touched me a lot was that he provided an update in his wiki user page > that he is in prison and that he will be back soon! He used the laptop of > his grand daughter who visited him in the prison and made this edit under > the supervision of the prison guards ! > > He sees his contributions to Wikipedia as his lifetime work beyond the > search for survival and wealth. He calls his 12 year old grand daughter as > his inspiration to keep writing in Wikipedia. > > Can people be so dedicated to a movement ? ! > > Do you have such stories in your project that inspire you? It is time to > share, inspire and infuse new blood in the movement ! > > Ravi > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Rahimanuddin Shaik నాని A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com *తెలుగువారికి సాంకేతిక సహాయం - http://techsetu.com*
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