Very well deserved! Congrats Nizil. On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 5:10 PM, sushant savla <sushant_sa...@rediffmail.com> wrote:
> > Congrats bro, > > On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:21:50 +0530 Krishna Chaitanya Velaga wrote > >Greetings, > I am happy to announce the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for June 2018, > User:Nizil Shah from Gujarat. > Nizil started editing in 2008, his first article > > on English Wikipedia > > was deleted. In 2012 when he could not find an article on a topic related > to the history of Gujarat, he decided to write about it himself. Being an > avid reader, he observed that Indian topics are lacking in coverage on > English Wikipedia. So he kept writing about topics related to Gujarat such > as history, language, literature, culture, people, politics, geography, > archaeology and many more. With more than 34000 edits and 400+ articles, he > is now among the top 2500 English Wikipedians. He also contributes to > Gujarati Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikisource, English Wiktionary, Hindi > Wikipedia and English Wikivoyage. He has uploaded and curated more than 500 > images on Commons. He considers mentoring of a few Wikimedians is his best > contribution to the Wikimedia movement.He sees lots of potential in the > Wikidata and has been its contributor since its inception. He briefly > served as an administrator there and has now 39000+ edits. He believes that > it will be the central data repository of the internet with its effects > going very far. He wants to revive Gujarati Wiktionary through upcoming > Lexicographic Data on Wikidata.Though by profession he is a dentist, he > rarely contributes to the health-related subjects. He now wants to expand > his contributions to dental and other health topics on English and Gujarati > Wikipedias. He considers the lack of good resources in Indian languages and > on Indian topics is a challenge and he is working to improve the situation > with help of fellow Gujarati editors. He says; One edit is too many and > thousand is never enough. > > Regards,Krishna Chaitanya VelagaWikimedia India > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Thanks! Parul My Blog <http://happinessandfood.com/> My Professional Profile <http://in.linkedin.com/in/parulthakur>
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