Gangadhar Bhadani
Gangadhar Bhadani | |
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गंगाधर भदानी | |
Gangadhar Bhadani with Jimmy Wales during Wikicamp at Chennai in the year 2007 | |
| Born | 1951 Ranchi |
| Died | February 2018 (aged 66–67) |
| Citizenship | Indian |
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| Notable work | Book - "Choice in Chaos" |
| Honours | A prolific Indian wikipedian |
Gangadhar Bhadani (Devanagari: गंगाधर भदानी) was a well known Indian Wikipedian. He belonged to the city of Ranchi in the state of Jharkhand in India. He was an Indian bank officer at the Bank of India. He was also an author. He authored a book on his own autobiography. His book was an autobiography of a wikipedian. His autobiographical book's name is "Choice in Chaos". He was described as a prolific Indian wikipedian by the co-founder Jimmy Wales of the Wikipedia.[1][2][3]
Early life
He was born in the city of Ranchi in India in the year 1951.[2]
Later life
Gangadhar Bhadani started his career as a banker. He joined as an officer at the Indian public sector financial institution Bank of India. In the year 2005, he suddenly encountered with the Wikipedia site having several articles and found that anyone was allowed to edit the articles. Due to his curosity of the articles editing, he joined the Wikipedia as an editor that year. After just 6 months he also became an admin of the Wikipedia.
Later, he was one of the top ten worldwide Wikipedia contributors for several months. He traveled different parts of India during his banking career. In his book "Choice in Chaos", he had mentioned that he had lived at 17 different places in India at 23 different houses.[4]
Death
Gangadhar Bhadani died in February 2018.[5]
References
- ^ archive, From our online (2012-05-14). "Info warriors on Wikipedia drive". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2026-02-17.
- ^ a b "गंगाधर भदानी: भारत के सबसे ज्यादा सम्पादन करने वाले विकिपीडियन". Bhopal Samachar | No 1 hindi news of madhya pradesh India. Retrieved 2026-02-17.
- ^ Bhadani, Gangadhar (2017-03-16). Choice in Chaos: A Wikipedian’S Autobiography. Partridge Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4828-8891-1.
- ^ "Choice in Chaos". PartridgeIndia. Retrieved 2026-02-18.
- ^ "Community digest: On Wikipedia, bridges across cultures are connecting Latin America with North Africa and the Middle East; news in brief". Wikimedia Foundation. 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2026-02-18.