Dear Community
It gives me great pleasure to inform that Mr J.M. Garg is the Wikimedian of
the month for May 2017. Please find an excerpt on him below.
J.M. Garg is a Wikimedian who contributes on Wikimedia Commons. He is a
nature photographer largely working on Indian flora and has more than
20,000 edits on Wikimedia Commons. Thousands of his images are used in
Wikimedia projects and can be seen on Wikipedia and Wikispecies.
He is the owner of Efloraofindia
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix>,largest Google
e-group in this field and also the largest nature related group in India
devoted to creating awareness, helping in identification etc. along with
discussion & documentation of Indian Flora. More than 11,000 species' pages
of seed plants, alphabetically sized- Seed plants
<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/> etc., ferns, fungi &
others are available with details for those species which have already been
discussed in effloraofindia e-group. It has the largest database on net on
Indian Flora.He is also the author of 'A Photo guide to the birds of
Kolkata & Common birds of India'.
He has also worked on 'Wikiproject Lepidoptera'
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lepidoptera> &
'WikiProject
Birds' <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds> &
contributing to 'Tree of Life Wikiproject'
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life> of
Wikipedia. Websites such as 'The Better India
<http://www.thebetterindia.com/12784/database-gives-access-8000-indian-flora-species-efloraofindia-garg/>;
have also done cover story on him.
If you know any such contributors who deserve to be the featured
as wikimedian of the month,please nominate him here -
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
Regards,
Yohann Thomas
yohannvt(a)gmail.com