User:Mugunth Kumar
Mugunth Kumar (born September 29, 1983, in Madurai, Tamilnadu, living in Melbourne), is an iOS Engineer, and Author[1]. He obtained his Masters from Nanyang Technological University in Jan 2009 and his Bachelors degree from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore in 2004. Born in India, he moved to Singapore and lived there for about 11 years before moving to Australia
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.
Vandalism on Wikipedia
Mugunth has been accused of vandalism [2] 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 Sony NEX-5N.
Known Languages
Mugunth knows some Japanese and Tamil.
Mugunth's Preferred Quote
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Website
Mugunth's website can be accessed here here.
Blog
Mugunth blogs at his self-hosted wordpress blog about iOS programming. 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.
Wikibreak
![]() | Mugunth is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries. |
References
- ^ "Mugunth's Books on Amazon". Amazon. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
- ^ "Mugunth Removing 50+ External Links..." Wikipedia. Retrieved 2007-11-19.
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