NWR 2011:Tanvir Rahman

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Nomination summary
Nomination Submitted by: Tanvir Rahman

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Nomination type:
 * Self

Nominee Details
Nominee name: Tanvir Rahman

Wikipedia User Name: Wikitanvir

User page(s): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:wikitanvir

Start of contributions (date): June 17 2009

Wikimedia Projects

 * Bengali Wikipedia, sysop since November 25 2010
 * Bengali Wiktionary, sysop since November 16 2009
 * Wikimedia Commons, sysop since January 24 2011, OTRS memeber since October 27 2010‎
 * Meta-Wiki, sysop since April 10 2011, steward since October 7 2011
 * Strategy wiki, sysop since 15 March 2011
 * Outreach wiki, sysop since 19 October 2010
 * Test wiki, sysop, since 24 September 2011


 * Global contributions
 * Global rollbacker, since 4 April 2011
 * Global sysop, since 18 May 2011
 * Steward, since October 7 2011


 * Bot contributions
 * WikitanvirBot - locally flagged on 220+ Wikipedias and Wiktionaries with 3,050,000+ edits, a global inter-wiki bot since February 6, 2011.
 * WikitanvirBot I - only works on Bengali Wikipedia. Flagged since August 15, 2010. 151,000+ edits. Tasks include fixing double redirects, cosmetic changes, inter-wiki redirects, spelling/typo fixing, welcoming new users, category fixing, also other tasks per request.
 * Also WikitanvirBot II and WikitanvirBot III respectively work on Bengali Wiktionary and Bengali Wikibooks for several purposes.

History of Contributions
(for each project please list more details with relevant references to document the nominees contributions)
 * 38,000+ edits on 750+ Wikmedia wikis
 * 6,000+ actions on 100+ wikis
 * Bengali Wikipedia, 19,700+ edits, 3,500+ actions
 * Wikimedia Commons, 5,000+ edits, 700+ actions
 * Meta-Wiki, 3,100+ edits, 1,300+ actions
 * English Wikipedia, 2,000+ edits
 * Bengali Wiktionary, 1,500+ edits, 200+ actions

Key contributions (till 2010)
(Highlight top5 contributions you have thus far, with references to work)
 * 1) Actively contributing to Bengali Wikipedia since June 2009, with around 19,700+ edits, created 480+ articles, sysop since November 2010
 * 2) Actively contributing to Wikimedia Commons since July 2010, with 5,000+ edits, later elected an OTRS member and sysop
 * 3) Actively contributing Meta-Wiki since November 2010, with 3,100+ edits, later elected a sysop and steward
 * 4) Actively working in Small Wiki Monitoring Team and Countervandalism Network since November, 2009. Later elected a global rollbacker, sysop, steward, and countervandalism staff, a collection of CVN channels on the Freenode IRC network.
 * 5) Actively working on Bengali localization in translatewiki.net since November 2009, 2,700+ edits, ranked 3rd in April 2011 Translation Rally

Peer Recognition (if any)
(please detail)

Press coverage (if any)

 * 1) Made some interviews on some Bangladeshi national dailies. Made a short interview with a Bangladeshi TV channel, ATN News.

Relevant Publications by contributor (if any)

 * 1) Co-author of cover write-up on Wikipedia 10 in Computer Jagat monthly magazine
 * 2) Co-author of Bengali Community News of WikiPatrika, June 2011
 * 3) Author of an off-line Wikipedia booklet
 * 4) And few blog posts to promote Wikipedia in on-line community

Any other information
(please list any other relevant information that you may deem pertinent)
 * 1) Founding member and secretary of the approved Wikimedia chapter Wikimedia Bangladesh.