Hardware donation program/acagastya

Your contact information

your username

acagastya

your contact e-mail (optional)

acagastya@outlook.com

Explain your plan

Tell us about how you contribute currently, and how you would contribute if WMF were to gift a used laptop to you.

I have been editing Wikimedia projects since high school and often with someone else's computer/laptop/shared PCs in college library and cellphone. Getting a laptop, I will continue editing the projects, the ones mentioned below, and few others, as I pick them on the way. I would also be able to create, test and run bots which were used for Indic Wikisource discussion on IRC. At times, when I did not have laptop, I had written ~57 news articles in 60 days (Summer of 2016), and with a laptop, I will try to set the bar higher so that the ratio of number of articles per day exceeds one. My laptop which I was using “died” serving as a server for Indic Wikisource irc meet in February.

Affected projects

Add the existing Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, etc.) and language versions that you seek to impact with this equipment.

• English Wikinews
• English Wikipedia
• Wikidata
• English Wikibooks
• Spanish Wikinews
• Hindi Wikinews

Work you are proud of

Show us (through links) some of your best Wikimedia work, on or off wiki, to help us get a sense for the kind of work you do. (no more than 3 or 4 links at most, please.)

• List of all news articles I have written in last 34 months -- that is, where I was major/only author

Affiliate?

IF YOU ARE REQUESTING THIS ON BEHALF OF A WIKIMEDIA AFFILIATE (i.e. to be owned by a Wikimedia affiliate rather than an individual), please type your affiliate name below, and add a link to your affiliate's public equipment tracking page.

Affiliate name

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Public equipment tracking page

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Endorsements

1.  Support Acagastya is one of the most prolific writers for English Wikinews and a computer should help them contribute much more easily. —Mikemoral♪♫ 06:36, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
2.  Strong support!--Ferdi2005 _(Posta) 18:09, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
3.  Support As Mikemoral says. --Pi zero (talk) 18:47, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
4.  Support --Esteban (talk) 11:29, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
5.  Support I've seen Acagastya working tirelessly on en.wikinews, including original reporting, and I understand he also works on other Wikimedia projects and runs outreach sessions, and travels frequently, so would really make good use of a laptop. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:26, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
6.  Support --SleaY (talk) 18:37, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
7.  Support Please, this contributor is just looking for a laptop with stable wifi. Not having one hinders the progress a fair bit. They applied for one at this page too... Thank you! Gryllida 18:46, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
8.  Support-- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(Talk) 11:18, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
9.  Support. Micael D. (talk) 12:47, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Status

open