Wikimedia Bangladesh

Wikimedia Bangladesh is an approved chapter of Wikimedia Foundation. The main objective of this chapter is to help coordinate and promote various Bengali language Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikibooks etc throughout Bangladesh.

1 Current projects
- 1.1 Native
- 1.2 Non-native
2 Reach us
3 Our objectives
4 People interested in helping to create the chapter
5 Responsibilities
- 5.1 Executive Committee
- 5.2 Chapter contact
6 To-do tasks
7 Promotional materials
8 Past events
9 Meeting logs
10 See also

Current projects [edit]

Native [edit]

Bengali language (`bn`) projects
Name	Type	Language	Local name
Bengali Wikipedia	Wikipedia	Bengali	উইকিপিডিয়া
Bengali Wiktionary	Wiktionary	Bengali	উইকিঅভিধান
Bengali Wikisource	Wikisource	Bengali	উইকিসংকলন
Bengali Wikibooks	Wikibooks	Bengali	উইকিবই
Bishnupriya Manipuri (`bpy`) language projects
Name	Type	Language	Local name
Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia	Wikipedia	Bishnupriya Manipuri	উইকিপিডিয়া

Non-native [edit]

English language (`en`) projects
All English language projects, most notably English Wikipedia (to develop Bangladesh and Bengali language/culture related contents).

Reach us [edit]

Website

bd.wikimedia.org

Mailing list

Official mailing list of Wikimedia Bangladesh. join discussions at wikimedia-bd

IRC

Catch us directly on our freenode IRC channel #wikimedia-bd

Facebook

Become a fan of Wikimedia Bangladesh at facebook.com/wikimediabd

Twitter

Follow our twits at @wikimediabd (hash #wmbd)

Google Plus Page

Add to circle +Wikimedia Bangladesh

Our objectives [edit]

(From our Memorandum of Association)

To create awareness among the people of Bangladesh about the availability of free and open educational content and enable them to effectively use them.
To help build capacities of individuals and institutions to access, develop and contribute to free and open educational resources which include but not limited to encyclopedias, dictionaries, books, images etc.
To organize workshops, seminars, study circles, conferences, training programs and other educational activities in collaboration and co-operation with academic/educational institutes, research groups, non-government organizations, foreign agencies, government and any other interested organization for spreading the knowledge and/or use of free and open educational resources.
To support charitable work of the Wikimedia Foundation.
To promote wider participation in creation, dissemination and expansion of information and educational resources covering the world’s knowledge and languages to all persons, everywhere.
To further the development of electronic, printed and other resources required to support such participation.
To produce, publish and develop or cause to be produced, published and developed, information/educational resources, whether in printed, electronic or other forms.
To encourage the use of information resources for the advancement of education.
To do all and any other acts or things as may be incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the above objects.

People interested in helping to create the chapter [edit]

If you are interested to help us to form this organization, please feel free to add your Wikipedia or Wikimedia username at the end of the list by clicking here. Please make sure you do so while you are logged in. :-)

Al Rayhan (talk • contribs • email)
Bellayet (talk • contribs • email)
Frdayeen (talk • contribs • email)
Maksud (talk • contribs • email)
Hermitage17 (talk • contribs • email)
Ragib (talk • contribs • email)
Rasid.naim (talk • contribs • email)
Mak (talk • contribs • email)
Chondon (talk • contribs • email)
Nasir8891 (talk • contribs • email)
Wikitanvir (talk • contribs • email)
Faisal Hasan (talk • contribs • email)
Ali Haidar Khan (talk • contribs • email)
Aamranetworks (talk • contribs • email)
Rushafi (talk • contribs • email)
Hasan.zamil (talk • contribs • email)
Redgwan (talk • contribs • email)
Tarunno (talk • contribs • email)
অয়ন খান (talk • contribs • email)
Usingha (talk • contribs • email)
Tanweer Morshed (talk • contribs • email)
arif.diu (talk • contribs • email)
সাবিলা (talk • contribs • email)
RIPENDIL (talk • contribs • email)
Mayeenul Islam (talk • contribs • email)
Tarif Ezaz (talk • contribs • email)
Munirhasan (talk • contribs • email)
Nhasive (talk • contribs • email)
Banakusum (talk • contribs • email)
RIPENDIL (talk • contribs • email)
Suprokash (talk • contribs • email)
Rossi101 (talk • contribs • email)
Bluerasberry (talk • contribs • email)
Naimulehasan (talk • contribs • email)
Pratyya Ghosh (talk • contribs • email)
Taief.shahed (talk • contribs • email)
Mohammadnasiruddin (talk • contribs • email)

Responsibilities [edit]

Executive Committee [edit]

See the updated list on the chapter wiki of Wikimedia Bangladesh with short biography.
The current Executive Committee consists of following people.

Munir Hasan – Munirhasan (talk • contribs • email)
Tanvir Rahman – Wikitanvir (talk • contribs • email)
Ali Haidar Khan – Ali Haidar Khan (talk • contribs • email)
Ragib Hasan – Ragib (talk • contribs • email)
Mayeenul Islam Mayeen – Mayeenul Islam (talk • contribs • email)
Shabab Mustafa – Tarunno (talk • contribs • email)
Nasir Khan – Nasir8891 (talk • contribs • email)
Tarif Ezaz – Tarif Ezaz (talk • contribs • email)
Tanweer Morshed – Tanweer Morshed (talk • contribs • email)

Chapter contact [edit]

Along with Executive Committee members following persons can be contacted about any information regarding to the chapter.

Tanvir Rahman – Wikitanvir (talk • contribs • email)
Ragib Hasan – Ragib (talk • contribs • email)

To-do tasks [edit]

S/L	Name of the Task	State
1.	Preparing the Memorandum of Association according to the local laws	Done
2.	Send the bylaws to chapters committee and discussion process leading to final approval	Done
3.	Appoint the members of interim Executive Committee	Done
4.	Local registration	Doing...
5.	Public launch	Not done