Congratulations!!! Regards, Suyash Dwivedi (U:Suyash.dwivedi) sent via mobile please consider any typos
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 3:21 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am happy to announce the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for June 2018, > User:Nizil > Shah <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nizil_Shah> from Gujarat. > > Nizil started editing in 2008, his first article on English Wikipedia was > deleted. In 2012 when he could not find an article on a topic related to > the history of Gujarat, he decided to write about it himself. Being an avid > reader, he observed that Indian topics are lacking in coverage on English > Wikipedia. So he kept writing about topics related to Gujarat such as > history, language, literature, culture, people, politics, geography, > archaeology and many more. With more than 34000 edits and 400+ articles, he > is now among the top 2500 English Wikipedians. He also contributes to > Gujarati Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikisource, English Wiktionary, Hindi > Wikipedia and English Wikivoyage. He has uploaded and curated more than 500 > images on Commons. He considers mentoring of a few Wikimedians is his best > contribution to the Wikimedia movement. > > He sees lots of potential in the Wikidata and has been its contributor > since its inception. He briefly served as an administrator there and has > now 39000+ edits. He believes that it will be the central data repository > of the internet with its effects going very far. He wants to revive > Gujarati Wiktionary through upcoming Lexicographic Data on Wikidata. > > Though by profession he is a dentist, he rarely contributes to the > health-related subjects. He now wants to expand his contributions to dental > and other health topics on English and Gujarati Wikipedias. He considers > the lack of good resources in Indian languages and on Indian topics is a > challenge and he is working to improve the situation with help of fellow > Gujarati editors. He says; One edit is too many and thousand is never > enough. > > Regards, > Krishna Chaitanya Velaga > Wikimedia India > _______________________________________________ > 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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