Dear all,
Thanks for the welcome. Probably, most of you know me more from on-wiki than the meetups (where I have been terribly infrequent!). Have been busy on Saturdays with work and have not been able to come for the meetups.
Anyways, just to introduce myself, a bit more formally - Am a doctor specialized in public health, doing my PhD right now. I am based in Bangalore and Tumkur. Most of my wikipedia contributions were through dial-up connections when I was working BR Hills - wikipedia and birds being my only two driving forces! Have been on the english wikipedia sometime since 2004 although, I got myself a username only in 2005. I mainly work on content contributions on the english wikipedia and images (rarely maps) on commons. I also hold informal wiki-classes in schools and would be glad to help anybody on that on weekends.
Am glad to help out as a moderetor. Naturally, I have a lot of biases which I declare on my user page as well as my website. I will of course strive to not allow them to colour my role here, just as I have not allowed them to colour my enwiki contributions.
And, no offense taken, Sundar on the overlordship, considering that I am not planning to take over the world!http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-x-overlords (nice link that describes the phrase)
Regards,
Prashanth N S Faculty, Institute of Public Health, Bangalore PhD Student, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp Asst. Director (Research), Karuna Trust & VGKK
web @ http://daktre.com @prashanthns on twitter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prashanthns photos @ http://flickr.com/photos/biligiri
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:33:04 -0800 (PST)
From: BalaSundaraRaman sundarbecse@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 308093.15198.qm@web59904.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi,
Some people mistook the pun I used in my previous email. Just to clarify, Prashanth and Srikanth are excellent choices for this and I used the term "overlords" in the same sense as admins referring to themselves self-deprecatingly as "the cabal" and such. Hope it clarifies. :)
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
From: BalaSundaraRaman sundarbecse@yahoo.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 9:55:22 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list
<sarcasm>I welcome our new overlords, Prashanth and Logic. :)</sarcasm>
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
for
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
From: Hari Prasad Nadig hpnadig@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India List wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, February 20, 2011 3:29:44 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list
Hi everyone,
Two new admins have been added to this list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prashanthns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki (Srikanth L)
Here's a thanks to these two long time Wikipedians and highly respected contributors for expressing willingness to take up admin work on the
list.
Also, starting today, the description of the list would read "Wikimedia
India
Community list" as that seems more appropriate.
Cheers,
Hari Prasad Nadig http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org