Revo Soekatno
Indonesian Wikipedia pioneer
Revo Arka Giri Soekatno (born 2 August 1975), known online as Meursault2004, is an Indonesian researcher, entrepreneur, and Wikipedia enthusiast.
Revo received recognition in the media as one of the Indonesian Wikipedia pioneers as his profile was published in nationally circulated newspaper Kompas on 26 December 2006 following Time's article person of the year "You" (2006). Previously in 2004, Tempo had printed a story about Wikipedia as "encyclopedia that came from a boarding house", where Revo became the source person for the story, representing the Indonesian Wikipedia. His contributions at the time was recorded to be over a thousand new articles. On 2006, it rose to 6,500 new articles.
Education
Born in Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia, Revo's parents were native Javanese from Surakarta, in Central Java. Revo has been moving from town to town in Indonesia and abroad following his father's assignment. He speaks Dutch, German, English, Indonesian, and Javanese. Since junior high school (1986), he has lived and studied in the Netherlands where he pursued his doctorate degree in old Javanese literature at the University of Leiden (2006).
Wikipedia
His first encounter with Indonesian Wikipedia was in 2003, when he found the site and described it as "ugly" and had a "lack of information".
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