Happy new year all, Congrats *Mr. Yercaud Elango*. All the best..
Regards, J. Balaji. On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > Happy New Year greetings, > > I'm glad to announce the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for January > 2018, *Mr. Yercaud Elango*. > > *Yercaud Elango* (*User:Yercaud-elango* > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yercaud-elango>) is a prolific > science writer from Tamil Wikimedia community. Born in 1961, Elango > graduated in Botany and mastered in Population Studies from Annamalai > University. Since 1987, he has been associated with the Tamil Nadu Science > Forum. He wrote 85 books, most of which are exclusive to science stream. > > In November 2014, he got his first exposure to the Commons community, and > has been very active ever since. Within three years of his joining, he has > uploaded more than 10,800 photographs to Wikimedia Commons. He frequently > visits Yercaud Hills, Yellagiri Hills, and Sitheri, to photograph various > species of plants, animals, and birds. His uploads include 2,450 plant > species, and 7,675 sub classifications of plants. He spends minutes, hours, > days, even months and years to identify scientific names, before uploading > them to Commons. > > One of his significant works include, uploading images of 200 rare and > endangered plant species that belong to Yercaud Hills to Commons. > Interestingly, of the 1003 Moth images available on Commons, 300 were > contributed by Elango. He also has credit of uploading images of some of > the rarest species like Shortts shield snake, Yercaud day gecko, Green > lizard etc. and modern stone age tools like Dolmens, Cairns, Menhir etc. > that are available in and around Yercaud Hills. Elango's uploads to > Wikimedia Commons can be seen at the category:*Category:Files by > User:Yercaud-elango* > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_by_User:Yercaud-elango> > > Elango says that he daily allocates one hour to work on Wikimedia Commons, > and he feels that allocating time for Commons is something that we do for > the society. In 2014, he published his first eBook, and in the last three > years, he has published 21 eBooks, which have been downloaded 3,94,303 > times. Apart from his regular work, he is now planning to upload his eBooks > to Tamil Wikisource. For his services to the society, the Tamil Nadu > Governemnet conferred him various awards and titles, which include > Yezhluthu Sirpi, Ariviyal Mamani and Vallamaimigu Yezhluthalar. > > > 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 > >
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