[Wikimediaindia-l] 1 user. 20 hours. 300 articles

[Ravishankar]

Hi,

Tamil Wikipedia added another 1,000+ articles in the last 3 weeks.

Behind this is a remarkable story of 1 user who created 300 articles
organically in 20 hours.

P.M.Puniyameen ( http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:P.M.Puniyameen ) from
Srilanka is a retired academician, prolific writer and independent
journalist. He started contributing to Tamil Wikipedia from November 2010.
In the short span of 5 months he has added 2000+ articles.

He set himself a target creating 200 articles on 20th April but ended up
creating 300 articles in 20 hours. He was helped by his wife, daughter and
two colleagues in typing the articles which were mainly info based articles
on cricketers, small magazines. Earlier, he even created articles from his
bed when he was in a medical rest.

Thought of sharing this story as it is inspiring to see people working with
so much dedication, mobilising people and resources for Wikipedia.

Regards,

Ravi
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