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This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on January 06, 2005 (19 years, 6 months and 4 days ago).

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user runs a bot, Ganeshbot (contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.

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taஇந்தப் பயனரின் தாய்மொழி தமிழ் ஆகும்.

en-3This user can contribute with an advanced level of English.

te-1తెలుగు లో రాయగలిగే సాధారణ పరిజ్ఞానం ఉంది

hi-1इस सदस्य को हिन्दी भाषा का प्रारम्भिक स्तर का ज्ञान है।

About me I am Ganesh Krishnamurthy, an Indian American, originally from Chennai, living in the metro Atlanta area, United States. I am a software developer by profession. I am interested in topics related to astronomy, biology, geography, history and technology. In the past, I was involved in improving India-related topics, as a member of WikiProject India. I had also helped WikiProject Gastropods with software development expertise. These days, I am semi-active on Wikipedia. I can be reached via a message on my talk page or an e-mail. I had started actively editing Wikipedia in November 2005, and became an administrator in June 2006. I operate a bot, Ganeshbot and help automate some tasks with it. In June 2006, Ganeshbot created about 5000 Indian town articles on the English Wikipedia based on the data collected from Indian Census of 2001. Ganeshbot has assisted WikiProject Gastropods since March 2010 and has created more than 20,000 snail articles using the data downloaded from the World Register of Marine Species. The bot is ranked #11 on the list of Wikipedians by number of pages created. I had started the most polluted cities page and continue to update it whenever WHO updates their air quality database. I had developed the CSVLoader plugin for AutoWikiBrowser and support it on a regular basis. It allows for articles to be created based on the data from CSV data files. It has been used on the Dutch Wikipedia to create more than 300,000 articles and on the Tamil Wiktionary to create more than 100,000 dictionary entries. I had also written the WoRMS and Category creation plugins for AutoWikiBrowser. Offline, I helped organize Wikipedian meetups in Atlanta and was involved in the formation of the Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians community user group.

Featured contributions List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu

Bookmarks Wikiedu Dashboard Special:MassMessage Automatic taxobox AutoWikiBrowser AWB Feature requests Bot requests Bots/Requests for approval Bot owners' noticeboard Comparison of tablet PCs Gastropod Taxonomy IRC List of Prime Ministers of India Michal's taxonomy page NNU Winter 2012 Noticeboard for India-related topics TaxonIds template WikiProject Gastropods Stub templates WikiProject QRpedia Free Image Search Tool Wikipedia:Lua Wikipedia:Database_reports/User_preferences#Gadgets Lead sentences Geonotice.js Bot passwords Category:Gastropods by classification Gastropod new pages Automatic taxobox cleanup category Taxobox cleanup category Recent changes to Taxonomy templates Taxonbar Tracking Categories User:Qbugbot {{find sources}} Petscan Wikidata queries Wikimedia Video Reel BotPasswords

How to Add Images to Gastropod articles

To do To-do list edit - history - watch - refresh Get List of Prime Ministers of India to FL Get List of Governors of Tamil Nadu to FL Create Marugelara O Raghava [3]. See Krishna Nee Begane Baaro. Create Nee daya radaa Help Tamil Nadu get to FA status. Understand how {{Deltab}} works Check out Mediawiki::Client [4] Get a m:Toolserver account. See [5]. List of Chennai suburbs Create Constitutional Bench. Reference Tarun's version Check out Mediawiki API Add Advance settings support for the CSVLoader Jacob Barnett Completed

Awards Barnstars and other awards I, Pamri, present you this working man's barnstar, in appreciation of your efforts at INCOTW. 04:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC) I award Ganeshk the Tireless Contributor barnstar for his fantastic efforts across namespaces over the past 3 months. --Gurubrahma 07:44, 23 January 2006 (UTC) Thank you for the Barnstar!! Just when I was thinking if anyone had even noticed the edits I have made!! This should keep me motivated to complete the entire ODI Bios list! Thanks once again - Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 06:59, 16 March 2006 (UTC) Hi Ganesh! I just completed 500 edits in Wikipedia. I owe it all to guys like you who have helped me & kept me motivated enough to reach this target. I would like to award you this Wikicookie. Thanks Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 01:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC) Email) 18:48, 10 June 2006 (UTC) I award you this barnstar in appreciation of your exemplary effort in bringing List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu to featured status. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 12:39, 13 June 2006 (UTC) In honour of your work in getting Ganeshbot up and running to create innumerable stubs on Indian towns. Blnguyen rant-line 04:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC) I, =Nichalp «Talk»= award Ganeshk this barnstar for his work in getting the infoboxes and maps together. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:33, 2 July 2006 (UTC) I =Nichalp «Talk»=, award Ganeshk with The BoNM for his endless India-related contributions! =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:33, 2 July 2006 (UTC) I, deeptrivia (talk), award Ganeshbot this Tireless Contributor Barnstar for its literally tireless contributions, which have put every nook and corner on India on wikipedia. deeptrivia (talk) 00:56, 3 July 2006 (UTC) The Surreal Barnstar, Never in my wildest dreams could I have thought that I could ever operate a bot if not for you. Thanks for being so patient with me!!! -- Lost(talk) 16:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC) South Indian Cinema and Music Award, You are hereby the first recipient of this Award, in recognition of your prompt and dedicated service to the improvement of South Indian cinema-related articles and your encouragement for their improvement. AppleJuggler 00:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC) The da Vinci Barnstar, For your bot work (User:Ganeshbot) and your development of useful template tools like {{WP India}} and others. Saravask 23:11, 7 July 2007 (UTC) The Editor's Barnstar, i wish to award you this "Editors Barnstar" in appreciation for your work in moving "Detroit of Asia" to "Automobile industry in Chennai" which i consider as the best to do. moreover i wish to co work with you in any article regarding "dravida" or "tamilnadu" be it "politics or any" regards:@ the $un$hine . (talk) 10:58, 13 April 2008 (UTC) The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar, Let me thank Ganeshk for helping me a lot for creating my first ever bot in Wiki - TinucherianBot -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 18:28, 2 June 2008 (UTC) The Wikipedia Bot Builder Award, I award Ganeshk for making a very useful bot named Ganeshbot . Your help in creating watchlist articles for the project and the workgroups is much appreciated ( also other tasks by the bot) -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 15:24, 13 June 2008 (UTC) What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar, This award is, herewith, presented to Ganeshk in appreciation of his efforts in coming up with different solutions for aiding the maintenance and regular activities of WikiProject India with the help of Mr. Smarty-Pants. Keep up the good work, mister! Mspraveen (talk) 13:00, 14 June 2008 (UTC) India service award, By order of the coordinators, for your good work tagging and assessing India articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this WikiProject India Service Award. --Ncmvocalist (talk) 06:24, 29 June 2008 (UTC) The da Vinci Barnstar, This is for all the times I have bugged you with bot, template and map related requests, and you have never ceased to not disappoint. :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:56, 5 August 2008 (UTC) The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar, I don't have much to say in words. Please accept this as my token of thanks for everything that you've done in the past few days. Best regards, Mspraveen (talk) 14:23, 11 August 2008 (UTC) The India Star, Ganeshk is awarded the The India Star for his tireless efforts to improve articles under WP:IND. I salute you, Sir. You rock! KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 12:32, 29 August 2008 (UTC) The Indian Barnstar of National Merit, Awarded to Ganeshk, one of the most prolific editors and admin from India. We are proud of you ! -- Tinu Cherian - 06:13, 4 December 2008 (UTC) The Special Barnstar, On behalf of me, and everyone at WikiProject Gastropods, for your outstanding CSVLoader, and excellent support thereof, we gratefully present to you this spanking barnstar. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC) The Bio-Barnstar, I award this Barnstar to Ganeshk for all the work he is putting into getting our six hundred brand new Conus stubs up and running! You are very generous and a good Wikipedian. Invertzoo (talk) 19:32, 26 March 2010 (UTC) The Nudibranch of Niceness, For your excellent work on the Conus project, I hereby present to you this much-coveted award. Without fear of hyperbole, this is the single greatest award in the history of the known universe. So, of course, in the field of gastropods, it is a huge deal, and much talked-about. It is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for malacology. Previous winners of this award include JoJan, Snek01, and Invertzoo, all of whom attained rock star status that nearly destroyed them. As word of this will hit the newspapers within a few days, I suggest getting out of town to avoid the media frenzy. -- Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:43, 8 April 2010 (UTC) A Gastropod Barnstar, This beautiful Gastropod Barnstar is awarded to you Ganeshk, in recognition of all the dedicated work you have put into creating thousands of new stubs for WikiProject Gastropods, using Ganeshbot. Thank you for being so kind and generous. The snails and slugs are applauding. This is hard for them to do as they don't have hands, and also their bodies are rather soft. However some of them are trying to bang their opercula on their shells in order to make a clapping sound! Invertzoo (talk) 18:46, 10 April 2010 (UTC) Welcome!, A very big WELCOME to WikiProject Gastropods for Ganeshk, an honorary member! We are delighted with all the work you have put into the Project! Thank you so much. * Welcome! * Thank you! * A slime trail for you in case you need one! ......................................... Invertzoo (talk) 20:32, 30 April 2010 (UTC) The da Vinci Barnstar, I consider this Ganeshbot to be the most useful, the most successful and the most professional user of the Wikiproject Gastropods, because it does not only share knowledge by its master GaneshK, but also from its reliable sources and also from other multiple Wikiproject Gastropods members. Actually it is the only biology-related wikipedia bot, so therefore it is the best biological robot. Snek01 (talk) 14:44, 29 August 2010 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar, Awarded to Ganesh for his tireless and very fine work at WikiProject Gastropods, which greatly helped and inspired all of us at the project to greater heights. I hope we can continue to work with you, even when we are not using your excellent bot. And I hope it will not be too terribly long until we can use the bot again. Invertzoo (talk) 14:21, 15 October 2010 (UTC) The Minor Barnstar, Good work on taxonomy of all heterobranch articles! Snek01 (talk) 19:35, 14 March 2011 (UTC) (Note: Minor edits are often-overlooked, but essential, contributions to the Wikipedia. The Minor Barnstar is awarded for making minor edits of the utmost quality. User:Snek01 gave this award to User:Ganeshbot.) Raja Raja Chola Award, For your extremely valuable contributions to Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamil Nadu -The EnforcerOffice of the secret service 12:00, 30 May 2011 (UTC) The Original Barnstar, your CSVloader plugin is best for all wiktionary uploads. தகவலுழவன் (talk) 07:26, 3 July 2011 (UTC) The Guidance Barnstar, Thanks for helping me with the CSVLoader. You truly deserve this barnstar. PhnomPencil (talk) 20:39, 15 October 2011 (UTC) The Technical Barnstar, Special thanks to Ganeshk for helping a "newbie" learn the basic technical skills to start editing Gastropod articles! You are one of the people who make Wikipedia great. Shellnut (talk) 04:41, 21 October 2011 (UTC) Wavy Gastropod Barnstar, This wavy Gastropod Barnstar is awarded to you for always being there, being a great mentor, and waving me on to improve my editing skills as a new Wikiprojects Gastropods member. Thank you Ganeshk for all you do! Shellnut (talk) 16:28, 9 November 2011 (UTC) Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition, This user has been nominated by the community of Indian editors for recognition as a Noteworthy Wikimedian at WikiConference India 2011. AshLin (talk) 14:08, 24 November 2011 (UTC) Welcome!, A big Welcome to WikiProject Bivalves for you, Ganesh, the founder member of the Bivalves Project! We are delighted that you decided to start the Project, and we can really benefit from having an admin and a software person as a member. Thank you and welcome, Invertzoo (talk) 14:32, 3 January 2012 (UTC) The "soft bunny" of happiness and tranquility, Thanks for the chocolate bar list edit, and BUNNY!!!! Anna Frodesiak (talk • contribs) 12:40, 16 February 2012‎ (UTC) Note from a Dutch Wikipedian, [1]...We used CSVLoader for about 30% (300.000+ articles) of our entire encyclopedia, producing stub-sized articles about animals - you might've heard about it, it was all over the news internationally, and it's on nearly every iw-page about the Dutch Wiki, also on enwiki. Never got the chance to thank you, so hereby, thank you so much, your tool has been a great help! Grashoofd (talk) 21:00, 4 March 2012 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar, Thanks for creating all of those mollusk articles and for your significant efforts to improve the encyclopedia. A truly impressive mass of new articles! Northamerica1000(talk) 15:15, 17 March 2012 (UTC) (Awarded to Ganeshbot) The Barnstar of Diligence, To Ganesh, whom we do not recognize often enough for his extraordinary contributions, primarily but not exclusively via his bot, to the Gastropod project and the Bivalve project. Without your work we would still be stumbling around in the Dark Ages! You certainly deserve the Barnstar of Diligence! Invertzoo (talk) 21:49, 30 March 2012 (UTC) The Technical Barnstar, For this edit in my userpage! Tito Dutta Message 13:55, 19 April 2012 (UTC) Thanks!, Thank you for all your kindness and thoughtfulness. Invertzoo (talk) 01:48, 13 June 2012 (UTC) The PRC Barnstar, For your very helpful participation in the Winter 2012 Nanjing Normal University Class Project, I hereby present to you this lovely Barnstar. As usual, you were a big help. I am very grateful. On behalf of all of the students and Josh the instructor, thank you very, very much. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:12, 18 June 2012 (UTC) Great American Wiknic Barnstar, You are awarded this mighty Great American Wiknic Barnstar for your valorous efforts in helping to organize the 2012 Great American Wiknic in the great city of Atlanta. -—Pharos (talk) 21:41, 2 July 2012 (UTC) The Brilliant Idea Barnstar, Making User:Ganeshbot/Animalia/Gastropoda/Heterobranchia/Opisthobranchia/Nudibranchia/Dexiarchia/Aeolidida/Flabellinoidea/Flabellinidae/Flabellina was a Brilliant and helpful idea. Thank you so much. Cheers, Riley Huntley talk No talkback needed; I'll temporarily watch here. 01:31, 6 July 2012 (UTC) More kudos for our project, A couple of days ago I was doing a Google search to try to find an image of a shell of a species of small pyramidellid sea snail (a micromollusk) that I found in Florida.....An even better image was to be found using the Google search, but only in our Wikipedia article, the image being from the original publication of Dall's. I was surprised and delighted that we have such a nice article and such a nice illustration for such a small and rather obscure shell! Thanks to Ganeshbot and to JoJan! Invertzoo (talk) 22:52, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[2] The Bivalve Barnstar, This spiny Spondylus Barnstar is awarded to you Ganesh, in recognition of all your 2012 work on the subject of bivalve mollusks as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Bivalves, including (of course) founding the project itself! All your efforts are much appreciated! Invertzoo (talk) 18:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC) The Gastropod Barnstar, For the enormous amount of good work that you Ganeshk (and your bot friend) have put into Wikiproject Gastropods this year: working with JoJan to set up and create our new stubs; listing all the changes needed for keeping our preexisting stubs up to date in terms of changes; and also generously helping me whenever I needed technical advice, I award you this Gastropod Barnstar. You have certainly earned it! Congratulations and all the very best wishes for 2013! Invertzoo (talk) 20:12, 1 January 2013 (UTC) I award Ganeshk the Tireless Contributor barnstar for his fantastic efforts with Infoboxes in the past 2 months. Diolch yn fawr! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 14:51, 27 January 2013 (UTC) The Indian Barnstar of National Merit, For your innumerable contributions to WikiProject India and other India related articles I award this barnstar of National Merit to the only Indian Administrator I have ever seen. Congratulations & Cheers - Jayadevp13 (talk) 11:46, 21 March 2013 (UTC) The Special Barnstar, Thanking you for your immense contribution in enthralling millions of Indians and Indian origins with specifics of their quaint and discreet and barely known towns and suburbs. These perseverant entries produce immense joy and excitement for the one who is looking for the same. What you have done is beyond awesome and bear long lasting legacy. Hope this Barn-star brings you immense joy and prosperity in whatever you do and pursuing. God bless you. Scribbleyard (talk) 06:49, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

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Favorite quotes This is life

Milestones June 10, 2006 - Became an administrator June 13, 2006 - List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu is featured June 25, 2006 - Ganeshbot gets bot status July 2, 2006 - Annoucements mentions Ganeshbot. July 3, 2006 - Ganeshbot completes creating India town articles August 1, 2006 - User:Rei-bot converts Indian town articles to Porteugese August 1, 2006 - Ganeshbot is ready to run on Tamil Wikipedia October 20, 2006 - Ganeshbot completed its first run on Tamil Wikipedia (added 272 new articles)

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