User:Mugunth Kumar

Mugunth Kumar
Mugunth Kumar
	Mugunth Kumar
Born	September 29, 1983 (age 41); Madurai, Tamil Nadu
Occupation(s)	iPhone developer, leading mobile development @ Foound
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 Personal Website
Notes
	Yet another Wikipedian... Nothing so great or special about him...

Mugunth Kumar (born September 29, 1983, in Madurai, Tamilnadu, living in Singapore), is a Software Engineer, iPhone Developer working for Foound. He obtained his Masters from Nanyang Technological University in Jan 2009 and his Bachelors degree from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore in 2004. He worked in India for about three years, before moving to Singapore for pursuing his higher studies.

Professional History

Mugunth was working for Honeywell in Singapore till July 2010. Prior to this, he was working for a well-known 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

Mugunth joined Wikipedia, the world's largest multiplaying game arena on September, 2005. But owing to his extremely busy^{[citation needed]} 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 1200 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

Mugunth 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

Just like a drug addict, his main Wikipedia hobby is to click the Recent Changes link and fighting vandalism.

Top Priority Work on Wikipedia

Majority 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

In 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

Mugunth often claims that he is a specialist in Computer Science^{[citation needed]}, 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

Mugunth is an avid photographer. From the photographs found on Flickr, it has been found that he uses the Canon PowerShot S5 IS.

Known Languages

Mugunth knows some Japanese, and he cleared JLPT Level 3 exam on December 2004, and he 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

“

God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,

The courage to edit the pages I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.

”

Personal Home Page

Mugunth has hosted a website which can be accessed here.

Blog

Mugunth blogs at his self-hosted wordpress blog. It's available @ http://blog.mugunthkumar.com He blogs about technology, programming, and writes articles and tutorials related to programming. He is good at Objective C and C# programming.