Appreciate the efforts Ananya. As said by Sanket, you are an unsung hero,
not only of Bengali Wikipedia but a lesson to all in how innovative
projects can be initiated from India.
On 4 Sep 2016 3:10 a.m., "Bodhisattwa Mandal"
<bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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> From: "Sanket Oswal" <sankoswal(a)gmail.com>
> Date: Sep 3, 2016 10:05 PM
> Subject: [WMIN-Members] Featured Wikimedian
> To: "Wikimedia India Community list"
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> Cc:
>
> Greetings from Wikimedia India Chapter!
>
> It gives us immense pleasure to announce that the featured Wikimedian for
> the month of September is *Ananya Mondal*
> <https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%
> AF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%
> A6%B0%E0%A7%80:Atudu>
> .
>
> Ananya Mondal, the unsung hero of Bengali Wikipedia who is often credited
> as the butterfly-wikipedian, for starting the initiative of Wiki Loves
> Butterfly <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Butterfly>, the
> first
> ever project in India to take photographs of butterflies. She started
> editing on July 2015 and in just 13 months she has more than 9,051 edits
> globally. With special interest on topics related to butterfly, venomous
> snake and biochemistry she made over 90 articles on Bengali language
> Wikipedia.
>
> She got the idea of doing Wiki Loves Butterfly, when she discovered that
> Wikimedia Commons does not have enough photographs of butterflies. Over the
> course of 6 months, the project helped in getting more than 602 pictures,
> 53 articles on butterflies. She is now interested to work on Wikispecies,
> to help there improve coverage on West Bengal associated butterflies.
>
> You can find the full excerpt on the home page of WMIN (
>
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home).
>
> You can nominate any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured here.
> Or if you want to mail us, please feel to contact me or Yohann -
> yohannvt(a)wikimedia.in
>
>
> Regards,
> Sanket Oswal
> Wikimedia India
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