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-overlor…
(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(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New admins on the list
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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(a)yahoo.com>
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)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(a)gmail.com>
>To: Wikimedia India List <wikimediaindia-l(a)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
>
>