Hello wikimedians,
Thank you all for wishes and kind words.
Looking forward for greater collaboration and contribution to the wiki
Regards,
J. Balaji.
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Congrats, Balaji anna!
>
> A.
>
> On Nov 13, 2017 03:37, "Satdeep Gill" <sg...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Balaji is an amazing contributor and this is a well deserved recognition
>> for him.
>>
>> Best,
>> Satdeep
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Tito Dutta <trulyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Many congrats Balaji. Great to see you getting this recognition.
>>>
>>> Thanks Krishna for the update.
>>> On Nov 10, 2017 3:46 PM, "Mourya Biswas" <mourya.bis...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Congratulations Balaji (anna)! You are indeed a prolific editor. It's a
>>>> very well deserved recognition and wish you many more accolades.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> On 10-Nov-2017 15:39, "Parul" <sri.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
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>>>>> --
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Parul
>>>>>
>>>>> My Blog <http://happinessandfood.com/>
>>>>> My Professional Profile <http://in.linkedin.com/in/parulthakur>
>>>>>
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