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: N/A
Public equipment tracking page: N/A

Endorsements

Support Acagastya is one of the most prolific writers for English Wikinews and a computer should help them contribute much more easily. —Mike moral ♪♫ 06:36, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support!--Ferdi2005 _(Posta) 18:09, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support As Mikemoral says. --Pi zero (talk) 18:47, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Esteban (talk) 11:29, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Support --SleaY (talk) 18:37, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Support-- Bertrand GRONDIN → ^(Talk) 11:18, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Support. Micael D. (talk) 12:47, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Status: open