Many congrats Balaji. Great to see you getting this recognition. Thanks Krishna for the update. On Nov 10, 2017 3:46 PM, "Mourya Biswas" <mourya.bis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations Balaji (anna)! You are indeed a prolific editor. It's a > very well deserved recognition and wish you many more accolades. > > Best > > On 10-Nov-2017 15:39, "Parul" <sri.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Congrats Balaji! Well deserved recognition. >> >> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 at 3:10 PM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < >> kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote: >> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I am happy to announce the Featured Wikimedian for November 2017. >>> >>> *Balaji Jagadesh* >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Balajijagadesh> is >>> one of the top contributors from the Tamil Wikimedia community. Though he >>> started contributing since 2009, he was quite active after his >>> participation in WikiConference India 2011. Initially he started >>> contributing to Tamil Wikipedia, but was later attracted towards Tamil >>> Wikisource, Tamil Wikitionary, and Wikidata. His global contributions count >>> to whooping 2,50,000 edits. He is an admin on Tamil Wikitionary. >>> >>> After his interaction with Mr. Loganathan (User:Info-farmer >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACentralAuth&target=Info-farmer>), >>> Balaji was very much motivated to contribute to Wikimedia projects. He >>> says, "When I was editing in Tamil Wikipedia, I used to translate science >>> articles from English to Tamil. But faced problem in finding equivalent >>> Tamil words. The English to Tamil dictionaries were inadequate. Hence I >>> felt the need to work in the Tamil Wikitionary. After a while there was a >>> collaboration with Tamil Wikisource and Tamil Nadu Government through Tamil >>> Virtual University through 2000 CC0 books were uploaded". >>> >>> As an active contributor to Wikidata, he says that the vision of >>> Wikimedia movement is, "Imagine a world in which every single human being >>> can freely share in the sum of all knowledge", but with Wikidata we can >>> make it, "Imagine a world in which every single human being *and every >>> single machine* can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". Apart >>> from regular contributions, he also created templates to Tamil Wikimedia >>> projects, and also maintains Tamil Wikisource's official Twitter handle >>> <https://twitter.com/tawikisource>. >>> >>> Balaji hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and is a post-graduate is >>> Physics. He currently works as a Senior Geophysicist in Oil and Natural Gas >>> Corporation Limited (ONGC). >>> >>> *Nominations for Featured Wikimedian can be made at:* >>> https://goo.gl/Fpf4D2, *or can be suggested to this email ID.* >>> Regards, >>> Krishna Chaitanya Velaga >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >> -- >> Thanks! >> >> Parul >> >> My Blog <http://happinessandfood.com/> >> My Professional Profile <http://in.linkedin.com/in/parulthakur> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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