Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedia [November 2017]

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" &lt;sri.parul(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Congrats Balaji! Well deserved recognition. > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 at 3:10 PM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < > kcvelaga(a)wikimedia.in&gt; 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(a)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(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l