This is truly inspiring Ravi. I get a new point to explain when other communities ask how Tamil community is so vibrant. When people talk about languages dying out because of lack of use in writing/computing/communication here are the rays of hope and this is beyond the boarders.
Best! Subha On 10-Mar-2013, at 4:24 AM, ansuman wrote: > Thanks for sharing! > > Regards, > Ansuman > ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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