Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka

Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka (officially abbreviated as UG-LK) is a volunteer-run non-profit community with an aim of unifying, empowering, and growing the Wikimedian community in Sri Lanka. The initial objectives of this community include increasing awareness of Wikimedia and its projects, introducing more people to the editing environment, and scaling-up the coverage on Sri Lankan history, geography, and other key topics. Future plans include holding edit-a-thons and collaborating with the local government to digitize and upload historic documents, photographs, and other information.

Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka


Location	Sri Lanka
Country code	LK
Legal status	N/A
Founding date	20 November 2015
Approval date	18 February 2016
Membership	29
Official language(s)	Sinhala, Tamil, English
Incorporation paper	UG-LK Recognition
Reports	2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Website	meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LK
Mailing list	Wikimedia-LK
Facebook	Wikimedia Sri Lanka

Wikimedia projects

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Language	Wikipedia	Wiktionary	Wikibooks	Wikinews	Wikiquote	Wikisource	Wikiversity	Wikivoyage
English	en	en	en	en	en	en	en	en
Sinhala	si	si	si	si (+)	si (+)	si (+)	si (+)	si (+)
Tamil	ta	ta	ta	ta	ta	ta	ta (+)	ta (+)

Wikipedia statistics

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Language	Wikimedia Project	Articles	Files	Pages	Users	Active users	Admins	Edits
English	English Wikipedia	6,976,881	935,045	62,868,020	48,954,257	123,399	847	1,279,310,143
Sinhala	Sinhala Wikipedia	22,613	2,909	160,814	71,945	105	3	738,692
Tamil	Tamil Wikipedia	173,201	9,147	592,493	242,451	328	32	4,234,873

Present working committee

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Language communities
	English	Sinhala	Tamil
President	Rehman	(open)¹	Mayooranathan
Vice President	Azeez	(open)¹	Sivakosaran
Secretary	(open)¹	(open)¹	(open)¹
Treasurer	(open)¹	(open)¹	(open)¹

¹ We need more volunteers! Interested in filling an open position? Do you meet the standard membership criteria? Feel free to nominate yourself on the talkpage, Mailing List, or email the usergroup president.