User:Tomasz Ganicz

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I am a professional chemist from Centre of Molecular Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences. I've got my Ph.D. in 1995, and D.Sc. in 2007. Currenty I hold a possion called "senior, independent researcher".

My professional areas of interest are:

  • Polymer chemistry and physics
  • Liquid crystals
  • Metalloorganic chemistry
  • Metallorganic catalysis.

I am a coauthor of 25 publications in scientific, peer-reviewed journals. 19 of these publications were published in journals with Impact Factor higher than 1.5.


You can see my professional CV here (actually outdated):

http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html

I am deeply involved in Polish Wikimedia projects.

My story with Wikimedia projects begun one month after launching polish edition of Wikipedia (at 2001), as a 7th registered user. Several weeks later I have also joined English Wikipedia, but I have registered there one year later, and have never been very active there.

In Polish Wikipedia I was mainly involved in editing chemical articles, translating basic meta articles from English Wikipedia, and also many articles for various other areas of knowledge. I don’t know exactly how many articles I have written from 2001 but my estimation it is in between of 2000-3000 serious content additions. I have around 30 000 edditions which places me among top 20 most active Polish Wikipedia editors. Currently, I am responsible for maintaining Chemistry Wikiportal and category chemistry on Polish Wikipedia.

I am also admin of Polish Wikipedia almost from its beginning. I am administering featured articles candidates discussions and also "Report a wrong information" page. I am a member of informal "cleaning department" on Polish Wikipedia.

I am a treasurer of Polish Wikimedia Chapter.

In fact, I have registered here to have opportunity to read Citzendium. I am not going to participate. As I understand you require people to register to be able to edit your articles, I really don't understand for what purpose you force to register people who just want to read. It may make Citizendium less popular.