Greetings from Wikimedia India!

I am glad to introduce you to the featured Wikimedian for April 2019, K Murthy from Tamil Community.

User: K Murthy joined Wikipedia in June 2013 and has 34000 plus edits on Wikimedia projects. He primarily contributes to Tamil Wikipedia and he is known for good quality articles on the subject of Chemistry. More than 80 percent of the articles he created are Chemistry related and he recently celebrated 4000th article. In a collaboration with Tamil Nadu Government, he visited various colleges and trained 120 plus teachers on how to edit Wikipedia. With 150 articles, he was the second highest contributor for Project Tiger from the Tamil community. He is also an active contributor on Wikidata and sometimes contributes to Wiktionary and Wikisource. He is an admin of Tamil Wikipedia since Jan 2019.

Outside Wikipedia, he works as Assistant Treasury Officer at Sub-Treasury Walajapet in Vellore District of Tamil Nadu. He has authored few poetry books in Tamil. He is also an avid chess player.

Thank you J Balaji for nominating User: K Murthy.

Regards,
Sanket Oswal