Hoi, FYI http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/05/unsung-wikipedia-heroes.html Thanks, GerardM
On 28 April 2011 18:21, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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