Please donate to buy a good camera for a Wikimedia Commons Photography
Contributor. He contributed more than 5000 botanical photos to
wikimedia commons.
Mr.Yerkadu Elango, is a Tamil writer. He wrote 75 books. All the books
are non-fiction, much informative, basic science oriented. General
knowledge, educationalists, scientists, women leaders, social causes
are the themes for his books.
To make Science and General Knowledge reach more people, he releases
his books as Free Ebooks.
http://freetamilebooks.com/authors/??????????????/
We can download all his 17 ebooks for free here.
As works in Botanical Department in a Central Govt office in Yerkadu,
He is very good at categorizing the plants and flowers. He take photos
of all the plants around Yerkadu and uploads in
https://commons.wikimedia.org
https://commons.wikimedia.org is a sub project of Wikipedia, where we
can contribute with photos and anyone can use the photos without any
piracy issues. All the photos are in creative commons license. So we
can use the photos and have to mention the name, url of the wikipedia
page as source.
So far, Yerkadu Elango, contributed 5000 photos on Commons.
He adds the Botanical details of the plants along with the photos.
We can see all his contributions here ?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_by_User:Yercaud-elango
More details about him:
https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/3pgz
http://www.vallamai.com/?p=53227
He is looking for Donations to buy a good camera so that his efforts
can be more useful for the community.
For now, he is using a normal point and shoot camera, which is not
helping to capture the flowers are in height of trees. He has to climb
up on trees and rocks to get the photos.
Recently this camera has broken.
It will be nice, if we can help him to buy a good camera with nice
ZOOM features, may be around 30x.
We dont know, if such effort of capturing plants will happen once
again. The initial effort itself should be best as much possible.
Please donate to buy a good camera for Yerkadu elango.
Bank Details:
T Shrinivasan
Account No:
006010101471083
Axis bank
Mylapore Branch
Chennai
IFSC code UTIB0000006
Send an email to yercaudelango at gmail.com & tshrinivasan at gmail.com on
your donation details.
Thanks a lot.
Read this in tamil at
http://tshrinivasan.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/donate-to-buy-a-camera-for-a-wikipedia-contributor.html
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T.Shrinivasan
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