User:Gruznov



Mikhail Gruznov (Михаил Александрович Грузнов). Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on April 25, 1988. A Russian Wikipedia contributor since December 2005 and an ex-administrator (2008, 2009—2013). Former member of OTRS team. Wikimedia Commons ex-administrator (June 2009 — February 2019).

My interests include business and venture financing, art, history and architecture. I contribute to Russian Wikipedia and sometimes translate the articles that show the better side of my homeland.

Since 2013 I have also been contributing to Wikipedia as a paid editor and a founder of wikify.ru consultancy. My idea was to reduce the tension between the community and organizations trying to approach Wikipedia and I eventually became the first person to disclose paid editing in Russian-speaking community. My experience is positive as paid services allowed me to spend more on contributing as a volunteer and helping NGOs pro bono. In 2022, I decided to close Wikify.ru as a commercial organization and shift my attention exclusively to non-profit activities.

Currently, I'm not engaged in paid services and lead a team of 7 people in the nonprofit project Wikiganda.org. We focus on creating non-commercial articles about climate, ecology, and healthcare in the Russian-language Wikipedia. Additionally, we counteract propaganda and conduct investigations. Since 2022, we have been heavily focused on refining articles about the invasion of Ukraine and hindering pro-Kremlin agents. We also develop software for Wikipedia analysis — wikify.io (still in early beta).

You can write to me at the discussion page, at gruzerman@gmail.com or Facebook but better via Telegram

Articles:


 * Cancer Prevention Foundation
 * AIDS.Center
 * MDK (community)
 * Nikolay Kononov
 * The Firm's Secret
 * Dmitry Zhukov
 * Pavel Otdelnov
 * Gridchinhall
 * Vladimir Grig
 * Nikita Shokhov

This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by:
 * Yandex.Money for their contributions to Yandex.Checkout;
 * Pavel Shishkin for their contributions to Pavel Shishkin;
 * Almaz Capital for their contributions to Alexander Galitsky;
 * Almaz Capital for their contributions to Draft:Almaz Capital;
 * Russian Caviar House for their contributions to Russian Caviar House;
 * Wheely for their contributions to Wheely;
 * Liga Stavok for their contributions to Liga Stavok;
 * JSC Concern Energomera for their contributions to Vladimir Polyakov (entrepreneur);
 * Verticali for their contributions to Innova (company), Verticali, Pladform;
 * WayRay for their contributions to WayRay;
 * Tochka Bank for their contributions to Boris Dyakonov;
 * Alabuga Special Economic Zone for their contributions to Alabuga Special Economic Zone;
 * United Capital Partners for their contributions to United Capital Partners & Ilya Sherbovich;
 * Vaizra Capital for their contributions to Lev Binzumovich Leviev;
 * Tinkoff Bank for their contributions to Oleg Tinkov;
 * Mosigra for their contributions to Mosigra;
 * Varton for their contributions to Varton;
 * MaximaTelecom for their contributions to Sergey Aslanyan (entrepreneur) & MaximaTelecom;
 * Vinci agency for their contributions to Nikolay Tsekhomsky;
 * Mail.ru Group for their contributions to My World@Mail.Ru;
 * JSC Exponenta for their contributions to Geek Picnic;
 * Internet Initiatives Development Fund for their contributions to Internet Initiatives Development Fund;
 * Ecwid Inc. for their contributions to Ruslan Fazlyev & X-Cart;
 * LinguaLeo for their contributions to LinguaLeo;
 * Runa Capital for their contributions to Runa Capital.

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