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The Wikimedia India Chapter (Registered Name: Wikimedia Chapter) is an independent and not-for-profit organization that supports, promotes and educate the general Indian public about the availability and use of free and open educational content, which includes the ability to access, develop and contribute to encyclopaedias, dictionaries, books, images, etc.

Wikimedia India was formally approved by the Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation after the recommendation of the Chapters Committee in June 2010 and India became the 29th country to host a Wikimedia Chapter. The Wikimedia Chapter was formally registered as a Non-profit Society vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District on 03 Jan 2011. Wikimedia India is an approved chapter by the Wikimedia Foundation for Wikimedians living in, or connected to India.

This chapter helps coordinate various Indian language Wikipedias & other Wikimedia projects and spread the word in India. The chapter's latest updates can be accessed from its official portal Wiki, wiki.wikimedia.in.

It is an autonomous entity that does not have any editorial control over content on Wikipedia and its related projects. The Chapter does not have access to the servers hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation in the USA.

Becoming a member

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Membership is open to Indian nationals (aged 18 years and above) and Institutions registered in India.

  • Fees: The annual membership fee (as on Mar 2012) is Rs 100/- for Individuals and Rs 1000/- for Institutions.
  • Membership Term: The membership term runs from the date of approval of said membership and ends on 31st March of the same financial year. Membership applications are accepted throughout the year. There are no multi year or life membership options.
  • Payment mode: The membership fee can be paid either by DD/Cheque/NEFT/Internet banking transfer (for SBI account holders) to Chapter Bank account. Please do not deposit cash/outstation cheques into Chapter SBI Bank account, at SBI branches as Bank levies Rs 25 as inter branch fee (as of Aug 2011). Please transfer the amount through NEFT as the charges are lower. Cash is not accepted for membership fee as of now.
  • Membership form: The membership application form can be downloaded from available: Individual, Institutional
  • Form submission: The duly completed membership application along with payment instrument/or details of payment needs to be sent to Chapter office: Wikimedia Chapter, No. 194, 2nd ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bangalore - 560071.
  • Application processing: The Chapter membership committee will endeavour to process all applications within four weeks.
  • WMC reserves the right to reject membership applications, with reason. In such cases, if payment is already made, the same will be refunded without any interest for the intervening period otherwise, the payment instrument (Cheque/DD) will be returned. However, the Rules and Regulations of the Wikimedia Chapter provide for appeal in such cases in Article IV-1. “In cases where the Executive Committee does not approve the application for membership of a person, said person may appeal to the General Body at the next Annual General Meeting.”
More Information can be found here

Donations

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Wikimedia India Chapter ( Reg Name : Wikimedia Chapter) is a not-for-profit organisation which gratefully receives your donations, no matter how large or small. Please note that donations to Wikimedia Chapter are not non-tax deductible in India, as of now. We are currently working on 12A and 80G tax exemption applications.

We appeal to the community, members, philanthropic individuals and organizations to support us at Wikimedia India through donations. As a newly registered entity, we depend on the generous contributions of people like you to support the activities and projects of our volunteers throughout the country. If you wish to donate for a specific purpose or project aligned with the objectives of the Chapter, we would be happy to discuss this with you at the email address provided below.

Donations can be made via Cheque, Demand Draft, NEFT and Internet banking and the completed donation form should be emailed to chapter@wikimedia.in.

A direct deposit, NEFT and Internet banking can be made to our bank account.

If you are making a contribution by DD/cheque please make them payable to "Wikimedia Chapter" , payable in Bangalore and send them to:

Wikimedia Chapter
No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross
Dommaluru 2nd Stage
Bangalore - 560071

Once the payment is processed, we will send you a receipt.

As of now, due to regulatory body restrictions, we can accept donations only from India or Indian citizens.

More information can be found here

Communication channels

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Official Contacts

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WikimediaIndia-l

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There is a mailing list at WikimediaIndia-l for discussion of this chapter, and of the Indian language Wikimedia projects in general.

Other mailing lists/groups/noticeboards

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List of Mailing Lists specific to India

IRC

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To join the discussion on IRC, join us in #wikimedia-in

Social Media

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People

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Wikimedia India Chapter Executive Committee (Board) :

  • Rahul Deshmukh  : President (rahuldeshmukh101@wikimedia.in)
  • Yohann Varun Thomas  : Secretary (yohannvt wikimedia.in )
  • Sanket Oswal  : Treasurer (sanket_oswal wikimedia.in)
  • Santosh Shingare  : Member (cherishsantosh@wikimedia.in)
  • Viswanathan Prabhakaran  : Member (viswaprabha@wikimedia.in)
Write to the EC at wikimedia-in-exec lists.wikimedia.org

History and Timeline

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  • 30-Sep-2004: An IRC meeting on September 30, 2004 at 15:30 IST. For a summary of the discussion, please see 2004 IRC meeting.
  • Nov-2007: The discussions have been re-initiated in November 2007, and several people have responded enthusiastically on the WikimediaIndia-l mailing list (please see the November 2007 archive). A draft of proposed bylaws is available here.
  • Dec-2008: Sue Gardner and Jimmy visited India in Dec 2008.
  • Jul-2009: Discussions started again after the 2009 July Bangalore Meetup.
  • 8-Mar-2010: Memorandum of Association proposed. Now, we have reached a state where we can take this forward formally and fast. A brief background of the history can be found here.
  • 6-Apr-2010: A final version of the MoA and by-laws was submitted to the Wikimedia Chapters Committee on 6 April 2010, after undergoing various revisions based on feedback from individual members of the Chapters Committee, Wikipedians in India and elsewhere, and the advice of an Indian tax expert who is helping with registration. This is the announcement of final submission.
  • June, 2010 Wikimedia India became the 29th chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation by a resolution of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees.
  • 3-January-2011 Registration of the organisation in India was completed via Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011 ( announce page).
  • 30-July-2011 Events were kicked off with a seminar on Copyright and Open Licensing at Bangalore.
  • 12-Sep-2011 Outreach events were kicked off with a Wiki Academy for Department of Public libraries, Government of Karnataka.
  • 24-September-2011 The first AGM and Chapter Elections were conducted successfully.
  • 18-November-2011 Wikimedia India Chapter co-hosted the first WikiConference India with the Mumbai Wikipedia Community.
  • 14-September-2019 Derecognition of Wikimedia India [1]

Wikimedia Projects

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Wikipedia

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 6,843,943 60,948,226 1,227,258,486 855 47,616,302 114,709 919,392
2 Urdu ur 207,492 1,098,447 6,262,160 8 181,451 263 12,674
3 Hindi hi 162,211 1,327,142 6,135,851 7 818,480 896 4,423
4 Tamil ta 166,225 564,126 4,025,321 32 234,072 237 8,334
5 Bengali bn 154,525 1,248,608 7,445,356 14 460,646 935 18,627
6 Telugu te 96,886 358,581 4,215,256 11 129,900 237 14,664
7 Malayalam ml 85,720 524,727 4,003,742 14 181,553 280 7,238
8 Marathi mr 97,019 313,766 2,431,789 10 163,662 134 10,639
9 Nepali ne 31,449 109,724 1,228,413 7 67,743 90 1,307
10 Punjabi pa 54,538 176,581 758,944 10 50,369 103 1,861
11 Gujarati gu 30,408 128,809 866,200 3 78,575 62 0
12 Kannada kn 32,331 140,272 1,227,569 4 87,381 111 2,443
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,087 63,373 893,925 2 25,958 19 41
14 Odia or 18,308 80,586 536,886 6 36,861 53 175
15 Maithili mai 14,108 43,025 262,155 5 14,473 19 120
16 Sindhi sd 17,684 60,640 274,511 4 18,775 27 150
17 Sanskrit sa 12,193 76,435 486,580 3 40,429 32 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,719 77,130 771,449 2 35,708 41 54
19 Assamese as 13,467 94,940 424,196 6 41,676 91 1,897
20 Santali sat 11,291 24,007 147,322 3 8,097 31 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,594 9,476 212,422 4 10,433 10 0
22 Divehi dv 3,101 11,978 133,418 3 25,740 23 932
23 Pali pi 2,556 4,664 102,282 1 7,585 11 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,169 12,016 128,049 3 6,370 20 12
25 Kashmiri ks 5,295 14,608 91,786 2 11,375 23 13

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,054,277 4,358,743 14,302,697 23 3,132,016 379 16,325
2 Gujarati gu 62,550 68,305 210,637 2 4,059 7 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,485 72,961 218,761 3 12,339 9 605
4 Bengali bn 33,353 727,892 1,822,026 4 19,266 23 6,422
5 Sanskrit sa 19,923 161,091 403,414 2 9,068 9 64
6 Telugu te 19,338 144,953 437,166 4 6,117 17 545
7 Tamil ta 23,963 527,576 1,623,878 4 14,328 41 42
8 Kannada kn 7,355 91,705 250,523 2 7,578 16 6
9 Marathi mr 4,701 101,433 207,507 2 5,345 15 15
10 Assamese as 3,146 68,946 187,802 1 3,659 13 78
11 Odia or 1,288 11,622 56,729 1 2,617 4 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,609 60,967 170,831 6 2,066 25 212
Page namespace Main namespace
Language All pages Without text Not proofread Problematic Proofread Validated All pages With scans Without scans %
as 5828 100 2965 21 2742 1487 1470 167 1303 11.36
bn 710062 6898 684886 572 17706 7548 7558 7528 16 99.79
gu 15046 317 1040 9 13680 11316 6137 1913 4224 31.17
kn 50292 571 45862 45 4072 1811 21064 131 20933 0.62
ml 47090 2051 12559 132 32348 690 6420 729 5691 11.36
mr 23441 11 22341 35 1054 34 1581 29 1552 1.83
or 7205 60 3070 3 4072 3029 659 99 555 15.14
pa 24317 293 13973 44 10007 1442 152 34 118 22.37
sa 54090 158 47918 22 5991 3805 20858 480 20378 2.30
ta 403711 95 381157 67 22392 10592 6252 2001 4251 32.01
te 51458 1193 15170 69 35026 25552 13242 4089 9153 30.88

Statistics as on 03 May, 2019.

Wiktionary

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 8,069,713 9,551,900 80,570,492 80 4,198,071 2,332 14
2 Tamil ta 408,399 421,097 1,996,391 7 23,391 26 239
3 Kannada kn 264,684 268,699 675,888 1 7,386 16 0
4 Hindi hi 184,187 206,676 481,663 2 17,910 24 6
5 Malayalam ml 131,297 139,097 555,250 3 9,668 15 4
6 Odia or 108,635 110,843 228,315 2 2,938 2 1
7 Telugu te 106,606 122,609 967,690 2 6,343 8 931
8 Urdu ur 26,664 33,614 111,914 1 5,327 7 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,449 16,596 34,983 1 2,674 5 0
10 Bengali bn 85,753 113,001 245,096 3 10,834 27 8
11 Sanskrit sa 6,025 263,433 509,124 1 6,732 3 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,191 7,235 29,257 1 2,316 3 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,154 29,211 1 3,666 1 3
14 Gujarati gu 664 6,398 29,065 1 3,218 4 0
15 Nepali ne 432 16,739 63,641 1 4,712 4 23
16 Assamese as 16 257 4,958 1 579 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 53 3,323 1 470 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 230 4,856 1 512 0 0

Stuff

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See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Derecognition of Wikimedia India". Wikipedia Signpost. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2019-10-22. 
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