Hi All,

Please join me in welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan as outreach coordinator/QA engineer (contractor) in WMF’s Internationalization (i18n) / Localization (L10n) engineering team. As the team’s technical liaison, Srikanth will be actively reaching out and working with our language communities to get feedback on new i18n/L10n features being planned or rolled out to Wikimedia sites.

Srikanth hails from Chennai, India. He has been a Wikipedian since 2006 and identifies himself as a wikignome (User:Logicwiki). Srikanth has provided language support for Tamil Wiki projects and loves to file bugs (and occasionally fix them) when he sees languages are not properly supported. Srikanth has recently revived his blogging habit at logic10.tumblr.com. His other interests include cycling, travelling in buses, playing table tennis (aka ping pong). Srikanth is excited to be able to contribute his tiny bit in making a sum of all human knowledge more accessible and helping build a more multilingual web! Check out some of his work on Tamil scripts and consonants at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Script#Consonants_of_Modern_Tamil

Srikanth can be reached on email at slakshmanan@wikimedia.org or as @srikanthlogic on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n.

Welcome Srikanth! It is great to have you on the i18n engineering team!

-Alolita

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Alolita Sharma Director of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation