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Mugunth Kumar | |
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| Born | September 29, 1983 |
| Known for | This space is intentionally left blank |
| Spouse | To be determined (201X-future) |
| Children | Don't believe in having children before marriage. |
| Website | Mugunth Kumar's Website |
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Yet another Wikipedian... Nothing so great or special about him... | |
Mugunth Kumar (born September 29, 1983, in Madurai, Tamilnadu), is a Software Engineer working for Honeywell in Singapore. He was student of Nanyang Technological University, finished his Masters in Information Systems. In 2004, he obtained his Bachelors degree from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He was working in India for about three years, before moving to Singapore for pursuing his higher studies.
Professional History
changeMugunth Kumar worked for a well-known[source?] company General Electric, America's Most admired company, for around 2 years, till July 2007. Prior to this he worked in some company as a software engineer for a year or so.
Wikipedia Career
changeMugunth joined Wikipedia, the world's largest multiplaying game arena on September, 2005. But owing to his extremely busy[source?] schedule, he could edit only few pages. However, from January, 2007, he understood that Wikipedia is a serious project and started editing fervently. His total edits on Wikipedia is over 1000 as of December, 2007. He crossed the 1000 mark on November 30 , 2007. Owing to the fact that he edits his user page, just to update this numbers, he's deemed to suffer from Editcountitis. He also contributes to Tamil Wikipedia with the user name "Mugunth Kumar".
Vandalism on Wikipedia
changeMugunth has been accused of vandalism [1] on some articles, by some newbies because he has removed over 50 links in the external links section. Strangely though, he did not bite the new comers.
Recent Addictions on Wikipedia
changeJust like a drug addict, his main Wikipedia hobby is to click the Recent Changes link and fighting vandalism.
Top Priority Work on Wikipedia
changeMajority of Mugunth's edits were found to be spam cleaning. He is a member of WikiProject:External Links. He marks {{fact}} tags for POV like statements, placing {{advert}} and such related tags on articles, but never ever tries to improve the same article. Because Wikipedia has over 2 million articles He is more interested in improving quality of existing articles and not in creating new articles.
Mugunth's Favorite tools
changeIn an Interview with Mugunth, he stated that, Twinkle is his life on Wikipedia as he is a vandal fighter. He also uses Popups which helps him when he occasionally edits. Similarly, he vouches for WikiScanner for fighting anonymous vandals.[1]
Areas of Interest
changeMugunth often claims that he is a specialist in Computer Science[source?], which is not accepted by many of his friends. As a result he tries his hand at editing a variety of Computer related articles.
Other Interests
changeMugunth is an avid photographer. From the photographs found on Flickr, it has been found that he uses the Canon PowerShot S5 IS.
Known Languages
changeMugunth knows some Japanese, and he cleared JLPT Level 3 exam on December 2004, and I was accredited at J3 in the JETRO Business Japanese Exam on June 2005. Apart from Japanese, he claimed to know English at near-native level on his old Wikipedia page. He's a native speaker of Tamil and also contributes to the Tamil language version of Wikipedia.
Mugunth's Preferred Quote
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Personal Home Page
changeMugunth has hosted a website which can be accessed here
Blog
changeMugunth Kumar owns a self hosted wordpress blog. It's available @ http://blog.mugunthkumar.com.
Wikibreak
change | Mugunth is busy with other tasks in life and may not be able to change Wikipedia because of that. |
References
change- ↑ "Mugunth Removing 50+ External Links..." Wikipedia. Retrieved 2007-11-19.
Disclaimers
change | This page has material which is kept because people think it is funny. Please do not take this page seriously. |