Congrats, Balaji anna!
A.
On Nov 13, 2017 03:37, "Satdeep Gill" <sgill(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Balaji is an amazing contributor and this is a
well deserved
recognition for him.
Best,
Satdeep
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.biswas(a)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.parul(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats Balaji! Well deserved recognition.
>>>
>>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 at 3:10 PM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>>> kcvelaga(a)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
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>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Parul
>>>
>>> My Blog <http://happinessandfood.com/>
>>> My Professional Profile <http://in.linkedin.com/in/parulthakur>
>>>
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