Revo Soekatno

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 Times 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. 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).

He became a speaker in Wikipedia seminars, one of them was sponsored by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information during ICT Award 2007, where interested participants received an "on hand training" on how to edit and write in Wikipedia. During an interview with Indonesia's news agency Antara, Revo stated that the challenge for the Indonesian Wikipedia in the future will be to maintain its information accuracy. In 2006 Indonesian Wikipedia had become Asia's third fastest-growing of local version after Japan and China. As of 13 May 2022, he is a bureaucrat in the Indonesian Wikipedia and has made 46,543 edits.