User:Pooja Jadhav

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Hello, this is Pooja Jadhav. I’m 28 and I live in Pabal near Pune, Maharashtra. I was pursuing Bachelor's degree in computer science in 2016. Then I join the Vigyan Ashram as a computer lab Instructor. I am the editor of Marathi Wikipedia. My contribution to Marathi Wikipedia, Marathi Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons. We Introduced Wikipedia in 2017 by Subodh Kulkarni sir. In 2017-2018, we Trained girls students. They had started creating content on Marathi Wikipedia. They have written more than 800 new articles on the Marathi wiki. Topics include information about plants and birds, wiki pages for villages, etc. Senior Scientist Dr. Madhav Gadgil donated funds for giving monetary incentives to girls working on Marathi Wikipedia my own edits were more than 2000. This team of girls also scanned copyright-free books and then processed them for OCR. So far, they have done OCR for 34 books and uploaded them. They have converted 47 books from the Internet Archive to Wikimedia Commons. Besides they have done an OCR of 9000 pages on Wikisource.