Thanks for sharing! Regards, Ansuman <http://twitter.com/an5um> *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ <http://or.wikipedia.org/>*
On 9 March 2013 10:43, Rahmanuddin Shaik <nani1o...@gmail.com> wrote: > Truly inspiring story. Thank you for sharing Ravi. > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to share this real life story of a man who edited Tamil >> wikipedia from prison ! >> >> Meet Muthukrishnan ( http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/fcl ) from Malaysia. He >> is a retired school teacher and writer. He uses most of his spare time for >> writing detailed articles about Malaysia and Tamils in Malaysia. He is so >> involved in Wikipedia that once he personally visited the grave of a >> personality to write an article on him ! >> >> Few weeks back, he was arrested by the Malaysian police on a case that >> challenged his freedom of expression for an article he wrote in a magazine >> (just to make it clear that he didn't create a real "crime" to land in >> prison). He was out of the prison in couple of days. >> >> What touched me a lot was that he provided an update in his wiki user >> page that he is in prison and that he will be back soon! He used the laptop >> of his grand daughter who visited him in the prison and made this edit >> under the supervision of the prison guards ! >> >> He sees his contributions to Wikipedia as his lifetime work beyond the >> search for survival and wealth. He calls his 12 year old grand daughter as >> his inspiration to keep writing in Wikipedia. >> >> Can people be so dedicated to a movement ? ! >> >> Do you have such stories in your project that inspire you? It is time to >> share, inspire and infuse new blood in the movement ! >> >> Ravi >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > Rahimanuddin Shaik > నాని > > > A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com > *తెలుగువారికి సాంకేతిక సహాయం - http://techsetu.com* > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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