---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krishna Chaitanya Velaga kcvelaga@wikimedia.in Date: Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 6:46 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian [December 2017] To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Greetings everyone,

I take pleasure to announce Hrishikes Sen as the Featured Wikimedian for December 2017.

Hrishikes Sen https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Hrishikes is one of the most active contributors from the Bengali community. Though he started editing English and Bengali Wikipedia in 2007, he had to take a long break due to professional constraints. Later he started working on Bengali Wikisource from 2012, and ever since, he has been an active contributor, and expanded to English Wikisource as well. With more than 45,000 global edits, he is an admin on English Wikisource.

As a child, Hrishikes always found reading books as a fascinating task. He says that he finds reference books as interesting as mystery novels. That interest, over years motivated him to contribute to Wikisource. The journey and motivation behind his contributions to Wikisource can be read from a post on WMF's blog, *Why I contribute to Wikisource?* https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/25/why-i-wikisource/. He says that till date he's been only active online, but he plans to do outreach in the coming future. He hopes that attending the 10th Anniversary Celebratory Workshop of Bengali Wikisource in Kolkata on 10 December may be a harbinger to his future offline activities.

Hrishikes believes that Wikisource will one day emerge as of the top digital libraries in the world, and says that as a store-house for primary and secondary source materials for Wikipedia, the importance of Wikisource is steadily becoming invaluable. Much of his time, Hrishikes spends working around Indian works, with a special focus on the works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Rabindranath Tagore. Apart from being a proofreader, he uploaded more than *750 books spreading over five languages* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_uploaded_by_User_Hrishikes to Wikimedia Commons.

Hrishikes hails from Kolkata, but is presently based in Lucknow. By profession, he is a doctor serving in paramilitary forces. To his Bengali friends, he welcomes them to contribute to Bengali Wikisource which has more than 676,000 that have completed Optical Character Recognition and are waiting to be proofread.

Regards,

Krishna Chaitanya Velaga

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