Excellent news. He is really a star Wikimedian. I am glad to see this. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Tito Dutta Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me over email or phone call. On 1 December 2017 at 18:46, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <kcvel...@wikimedia.in > wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I take pleasure to announce Hrishikes Sen as the Featured Wikimedian for > December 2017. > > Hrishikes Sen > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Hrishikes> is one of > the most active contributors from the Bengali community. Though he started > editing English and Bengali Wikipedia in 2007, he had to take a long break > due to professional constraints. Later he started working on Bengali > Wikisource from 2012, and ever since, he has been an active contributor, > and expanded to English Wikisource as well. With more than 45,000 global > edits, he is an admin on English Wikisource. > > As a child, Hrishikes always found reading books as a fascinating task. He > says that he finds reference books as interesting as mystery novels. That > interest, over years motivated him to contribute to Wikisource. The journey > and motivation behind his contributions to Wikisource can be read from a > post on WMF's blog, *Why I contribute to Wikisource?* > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/25/why-i-wikisource/>. He says that > till date he's been only active online, but he plans to do outreach in the > coming future. He hopes that attending the 10th Anniversary Celebratory > Workshop of Bengali Wikisource in Kolkata on 10 December may be a harbinger > to his future offline activities. > > Hrishikes believes that Wikisource will one day emerge as of the top > digital libraries in the world, and says that as a store-house for primary > and secondary source materials for Wikipedia, the importance of Wikisource > is steadily becoming invaluable. Much of his time, Hrishikes spends working > around Indian works, with a special focus on the works of Bankim Chandra > Chattopadhyay, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Rabindranath Tagore. Apart from > being a proofreader, he uploaded more than *750 books spreading over five > languages* > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_uploaded_by_User_Hrishikes> > to > Wikimedia Commons. > > Hrishikes hails from Kolkata, but is presently based in Lucknow. By > profession, he is a doctor serving in paramilitary forces. To his Bengali > friends, he welcomes them to contribute to Bengali Wikisource which has > more than 676,000 that have completed Optical Character Recognition and are > waiting to be proofread. > > > 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 > >
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