I am Harvinder Singh and my Wikipedia account ID is Harvinder Chandigarh. I am from Punjab settled in Chandigarh. I am a Punjab Government officer. I am an active member of Punjabi Wikipedia.However, I used to frequently edit on Western Punjabi, English and Hindi language also.I have passion for Photography and contribute lot on Wikimedia common and try to do maximum original and field based primary work enriched by relevant images of related content. I am also a Punjabi language writer and used to contribute write-ups and articles in vernacular papers.I published first ever article about importance of Wikipedia in vernacular press describing it as the "Online Multilingual Encyclopedia of 21st Century" .[1].My favourite subjects are art, culture ,heritage,archaeology , history,environment and economy.I used to create awareness about usefulness of Wikipedia among writers, intellectuals and students and persuade them to participate in this free knowledge movement. I also try to create healthy and constructive atmosphere for the existing Punjabi Wikipedia team for overall advancement of the community. I believe Wikipedia can play a great role in changing destiny of deprived and suppressed people across the globe through the information revolution in a transparent manner. I feel Wikipedia is the best example of Community Participatory Programme and pro people free source of knowledge and information created and managed by the respective communities.
I am active on social media also and my facebook accuont may be accessed at [2] and here I am Admin of few Groups also which I used to utilize for sharing Wikipedia related posts too. Some of these are :[3],[4],[5],,[6]
I got an opportunity to participate in Wikimania 2016 held in June 2016 in Esino Lario,Italy. [7]
