NWR 2011:Abhay Natu

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Nomination summary
Nomination Submitted by: Sankalp Dravid

Nomination type: Nomination

Nominee Details
Abhay Natu (Marathi: अभय नातू ):

Wikipedia User Name: अभय नातू

User page(s):
 * "User:अभय नातू" on Marathi wikipedia

Start of contributions (date): November 9, 2005
 * "User:क्रिकाम्या" on Marathi wikipedia - a bot operated by Abhay
 * "User:Abhay Natu" on Marathi wikipedia - old user account used by Abhay (no more in use probably).

Wikimedia Projects
(please list project, role, from date)
 * Marathi Wikipedia, Sysop, January 14, 2006
 * Marathi Wikipedia, Beurocrat, Jan 2007

Key contributions (till 2010)
(Highlight top5 contributions you have thus far, with references to work)


 * 1) Number 1 contributor in Marathi wikipedia by November 15, 2010 with 60,117 edits (Ref.: List of Wikipedians by number of edits (version dated Nov.15, 2010). He is still number 1 contributor with 74833 edits so far, as per the latest statistics (Ref.). He had 2,700+ edits with old account "User:Abhay Natu" (Ref.). He also operates a bot on Marathi wikipedia, which has contributed 9,500+ edits so far (Ref.: Edit count for "User:क्रिकाम्या" on mr wiki).
 * 2) One of the coordinators behind organising 1st editathon on Marathi wikipedia on February 26-27, 2011 (Ref.: Page about Editathon #1 on Marathi wikipedia).
 * 3) Abhay has been involved in outreach efforts for Marathi wikipedia and other wiki projects. He was speaker for a talk about Wikipedia at CMDA IT Expo 2010, Pune, Maharashtra (Ref. #1, Ref #2).

Press coverage (if any)

 * 1) "Abhay Natu, who has been a user and editor since November 2005, says Marathi Wikipedians want their page to grow to a point where it becomes a premium yet free reference site, accessible to anyone who can read Marathi." (Ref.: "Vernacular Wikipedia" by Prerna Raturi, Open magazine, dated March 26, 2011)