Congrats Balaji! Well deserved recognition. On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 at 3:10 PM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
> Greetings, > > I am happy to announce the Featured Wikimedian for November 2017. > > *Balaji Jagadesh* > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Balajijagadesh> is > one of the top contributors from the Tamil Wikimedia community. Though he > started contributing since 2009, he was quite active after his > participation in WikiConference India 2011. Initially he started > contributing to Tamil Wikipedia, but was later attracted towards Tamil > Wikisource, Tamil Wikitionary, and Wikidata. His global contributions count > to whooping 2,50,000 edits. He is an admin on Tamil Wikitionary. > > After his interaction with Mr. Loganathan (User:Info-farmer > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACentralAuth&target=Info-farmer>), > Balaji was very much motivated to contribute to Wikimedia projects. He > says, "When I was editing in Tamil Wikipedia, I used to translate science > articles from English to Tamil. But faced problem in finding equivalent > Tamil words. The English to Tamil dictionaries were inadequate. Hence I > felt the need to work in the Tamil Wikitionary. After a while there was a > collaboration with Tamil Wikisource and Tamil Nadu Government through Tamil > Virtual University through 2000 CC0 books were uploaded". > > As an active contributor to Wikidata, he says that the vision of Wikimedia > movement is, "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely > share in the sum of all knowledge", but with Wikidata we can make it, > "Imagine a world in which every single human being *and every single > machine* can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". Apart from > regular contributions, he also created templates to Tamil Wikimedia > projects, and also maintains Tamil Wikisource's official Twitter handle > <https://twitter.com/tawikisource>. > > Balaji hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and is a post-graduate is > Physics. He currently works as a Senior Geophysicist in Oil and Natural Gas > Corporation Limited (ONGC). > > *Nominations for Featured Wikimedian can be made at:* > https://goo.gl/Fpf4D2, *or can be suggested to this email ID.* > Regards, > Krishna Chaitanya Velaga > _______________________________________________ > 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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