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Welcome to WikiChristian. My name is Prab R. Tumpati. I am a Christian believer by faith, resident in Internal Medicine. by profession. I am currently located in Philadelphia, PA, USA. I was born and brought up in a Hindu family who converted to Christianity in India due to a great healing miracle by God in my family. I grew up in a Christian missions base called Maranatha Visvasa Samajam, started by an American Educated pastor.
Despite being a medical doctor, I taught myself a lot of computer softwares in my free time and I consider myself a technology enthusiast. Having started successful websites like [http://www.Residentscafe.com Residentscafe], a popular website for residents and residency applicants, [http://www.believerscafe.com Believerscafe] with over 35,000 pages and, I felt a need for building a website that would let people to edit and add on content collaboratively would be of great help. Having seen the phenomenal growth of some wiki's like [[http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], I thought a christian encyclopedia would be of great help. I strongly believe that a wiki is an ideal tool for people on the web to work together collaboratively so that we can create and organize information. It is like combining all our collective knowledge and putting it in one place!
While there are many wiki's for secular information, we felt a need a for a dedicated Christian wiki that will not only serve as a wiki community, but also serves as a source for information and an encyclopedia on Christianity. I strongly believe that there is strength in togetherness/unity and as a group, we can help build a free Christian Encyclopedia that represents the contemporary concepts in Christian Theology and Faith. You can reach me at tumpati at hotmail dot com. May God bless you all.
I started [[wikichristian]] in January of 2005, along with some friends like [User:Graham grove|Graham grove] from Australia, in order to build an [[open source]] Christian [[Encyclopedia]]. While I did all the technical stuff in setting up the wiki and posted a lot of public domain content, [[User:Gram grove|Graham]] and many others contributed greatly in building the site up to make it one of the fastest growing wikis. In fact, the website grew to over 115 MB as of August, 2005 and was utilizing upto 95% of the server resources. It lead to temporary problems with the webhost due to high CPU usage in a shared hosting. We had finally decided to get a dedicated server to help facilitate the growth of wikichristian. Our vision is to build a free Christian Encyclopedia, public domain wiki and [[Bible]] resource and a wiki Christian community representing the contemporary church thinking and philosophy.
I declare that I do not have any commercial interest in this project and would keep the website not-for-profit. We may latter register it as a not for profit organization, as we grow. If you would like to share your views on improving this project, please drop me a line at my email id above or leave the message in the talk page here. If you are a committed Christian interested in becoming a wiki sysop, you may contact us for information on how to become a sysop.
I strongly believe that Christians have to rise up and stand for the important issues in the society in a day and age where truth is blurred and falsehood and sin are exaulted. WikiChristian would serve as a forum to represent the current concepts and trends in Christian Community the world over and will serve as a source of information, fellowship and inspiration. As this is a collaborative effort, it can only be made possible by participation from users like you! Remember that "when you cast your bread on the waters with faith, it will return one day back to you with butter on top of it". May God blesss you for your hardwork.
May God Bless you richly! Prab R Tumpati, MD
You can reach me at prab at residentscafe dot com or tumpati at hotmail dot com
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Prab, just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy Wikichristian and I think it's a great site. I'm looking forward to contributing and working together on this project. [[User:Cpark|Cpark]] 18:46, 8 Feb 2005 (PST)
