Wikimedia Delhi City/MoA

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
WIKIMEDIA DELHI CITY FOUNDATION

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This page represents a very first rough working draft for the Wikimedia Foundation Delhi Chapter. This page is likely to change frequently, and to be edited by multiple people.

Name

The name of the Society shall be Wikimedia Delhi City Foundation, and it will be known as Wikimedia Delhi, Wikimedia NCR or WMNCR in short.

Address

The registered office of WMNCR shall be situated at Delhi, India. It may be shifted to any place of the country by the decision of the Executive Committee of WMNCR.

Type of Society

The Society shall be a voluntary and non-profit organization.

Geographical Base

The Chapter shall be based in National Capital Territory, Republic of India

Objectives and Goals of the Society

The mission of the Chapter is to empower and engage individuals in Delhi and the surrounding area to create, collect, and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally, via the promotion of the Wikimedia Foundation projects and other Free Content endeavors.

The Chapter shall take the responsibilities of a local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., as an independent but mutually supportive organization. The following is a demonstrative list of projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation:

• Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org)
• Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org)
• MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org)
• Wikibooks (http://www.wikibooks.org)
• Wikiversity (http://www.wikiversity.org)
• Wikiquote (http://www.wikiquote.org)
• Wiktionary (http://www.wiktionary.org)
• Wikinews (http://www.wikinews.org)
• Wikisource (http://www.wikisource.org)
• Wikispecies (http://species.wikimedia.org)

Goals and Duties

The primary goals of the Chapter are as follows:

• Attracting new users to Free Content providers, especially the various Wikimedia Projects, and teaching new users to properly contribute, make use of, and distribute that content.
• Creation of new Free Content, through contributions, donations, or other legal acquisitions, especially for use with the various Wikimedia projects.
• The operation and the funding of operation of online systems for creation, collection and distribution, respectively, of Free Content. The main focus lies on the several international Wikimedia projects.
• The distribution and support of distribution of Free Content by other means, exempli gratia, in digital or printed form, with focus on the contents of the international Wikimedia projects.
• The acquisition, making available and distribution of information and public relations work relating to Free Content, Wikis and the various Wikimedia projects, through events or information literature.

The Chapter may collect funds to support the goals above, or transfer them to other tax-exempt corporations or corporations under public law, if they are used exclusively for the purposes mentioned above, and it may hold shares or be a member of such corporations.

Funds of the Chapter can only be used for purposes stated in this constitution. Its members do not, as members, get any financial benefits from the Chapter's funds. No person may benefit through spendings which are not necessary for the promotion of its aims or through disproportionately high payments.

Composition

The Chapter consists of active members of the various Wikimedia Foundation projects and other individuals and entities with common goals. All matters of the Chapter will be handled by the General Assembly and the Executive Council, as described in this constitution.

Term

A term will begin on January 01 of the year, and will end on December 31 of that same year.

Official Languages

The working language of the Chapter will be English, although translations of the documents, and other material generated by the Chapter into other languages, for use by speakers of other languages, is encouraged. Where there is disagreement between the English version of a document, and a translated version of a document, the English version is considered to be correct and binding.