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Wikimedia chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects within a specified geographical region (country). Like the Wikimedia Foundation, they aim to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". More than 30 chapters currently exist in nearly every continent of the world.

This page lists current and planned chapters. Please see the Step-by-step chapter creation guide and the Local chapter FAQ for more information. A Chapters committee exists to aid the creation of, and to support, local chapters.

Existing chapters, both founded (dark blue) and approved (dark turquoise), planned chapters (green), and chapters in discussion (light blue) as of 13 October 2011.


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[edit] Existing chapters

There are currently 38 recognised chapters:


[edit] Planned chapters

Chapters in active preparation to become a Local Chapter. Please provide a link to a page on meta with more detailed information (with a short summary in English) and provide a contact for questions about the present state.

Key
A yellowish background means chapters are currently in active contact (as of the "last update" date) with the Chapters Committee;
A light grey background means awaiting an update (from the proposed Chapter? from ChapCom?)
A light blue background means the ChapCom has asked the Board to approve the Chapter's formation.
country code Chapter Status Articles of Incorporation
/ Statute
Website Mailing list Contact Last update
Icons-flag-ad.png ad Wikimedia CAT Proposal simplified and clarified in order to clear the difficulties pointed out by ChapCom. Changes reported to the Board. ca en http://viquimedia.cat wikica-l wikica-l, #wikipedia-ca, or Gomà 2010-12-18
Icons-flag-br.png br Wikimedia Brasil
Has been approved in the past and is rewriting its bylaws for submit a new proposal to the ChapCom. - Wikimedia Brasil
@WikimediaBrasil
Wikimedia-BR CasteloBranco
#wikimedia-br
2011-11-12
Icons-flag-ca.png Flag of Quebec.svg ca-qc Wikimédia Québec Bylaws in discussion fr Wikimédia Québec (on meta) Discussion Wikimédia Québec 2010-01-18
Icons-flag-hr.png hr Wikimedia Croatia Formally established under Croatian law on January 17, 2009. Awaiting board approval. hr and en SpeedyGonsales, #wikimedija-hr 2011-01-12
Icons-flag-kz.png kz Wikimedia Kazakhstan Communicating with Wikimedia Foundation. en Ashina, Alash, Rauank 2011-04-28
Icons-flag-ge.png ge Wikimedia Georgia Development. ka http://wikimedia.ge/ info at wikimedia.ge 2010-12-17

[edit] Chapters in discussion phase

You should add here any chapter that is under discussion to be started up. Please provide link to a page (in meta) with more detailed information (at best with a short summary in English) and provide a contact for questions about the present state.

country code Chapter Status Articles of Incorporation/
Statute
Website Mailing list Contact Last update
Icons-flag-am.png am Wikimedia Armenia In discussion Early development Wikimedia Armenia on Meta susanna.mkrtchyan@gmail.com SusikMkr 2011-10-17
Icons-flag-be.png be Wikimedia Belgium None fr en nl Wikimedia Belgium WikimediaBE-l #wikimedia-be, MADe 2011-08-30
Icons-flag-by.png by Wikimedia Belarus In discussion - Meta wikimediaby ru:User Talk:Track13 (en, ru, be) ru:User Talk:Pessimist2006 (ru, be) 2010-05-29
Icons-flag-co.png co Wikimedia Colombia In discussion Spanish/English (untranslated) http://co.wikimedia.org/
penging domain: wikimedia.org.co
Carlos Thompson or #wikimedia-co 2007-11-21
Icons-flag-dz.png dz Wikimedia Algeria In discussion to come Meta 2007-07
Icons-flag-eg.png eg Wikimedia Egypt Writing bylaws Proposed by-laws Wikimedia Egypt mail:wikimediaeg-l Mido or/and #wikimedia-eg 2009-03
Icons-flag-gr.png gr Wikimedia Greece In discussion research stage wikimedia.gr/wiki Geraki or/and #wikimedia-el 2011-06
Icons-flag-ie.png ie Wikimedia Ireland In discussion Wikimedia Ireland mail:wikimediaie 2010-08-04
Icons-flag-in.png in-dl Wikimedia Delhi City Memorandum of Association has been posted on Meta. Wikimedia Delhi City Wikimedia-in-del Vibhijain 2011-06-05
Icons-flag-ir.png ir Wikimedia Iran In discussion Meta 2008-07-07
Icons-flag-is.png is Wikimedia Ísland (Wikimedia Iceland) Writing bylaws is Talk:Wikimedia Ísland 2008-03-07
Icons-flag-ke.png ke Wikimedia Kenya Bylaws submitted to ChapCom - - - Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr@hotmail.com> 2010-07-03
Icons-flag-kr.png kr Wikimedia South Korea Early development Meta, Korean Wikipedia 2009-01-14
Icons-flag-lt.png lt Wikimedia Lietuva Stopped at discussion phase none none 2009-12-10
Icons-flag-my.png my Wikimedia Malaysia Early development Research stage Wikimedia Malaysia (on meta) Talk:Wikimedia Malaysia 2009-01-12
Icons-flag-pk.png pk Wikimedia Pakistan In discussion Meta Talk:Wikimedia Pakistan 2009-10-28
Icons-flag-ro.png ro Wikimedia România Early stages (planning) ro, en (drafts) wikimedia.ro (currently a portal) WikimediaRO-l IulianU or Razool 2005-09-26
Icons-flag-sa.png sa Wikimedia Saudi Arabia Early development Wikimedia Saudi Arabia Alrwaikm 2008-12-26
Icons-flag-sg.png sg Wikimedia Singapore Early development - Wikimedia Singapore Wikimedia-SG Mailing list or #wikimedia-sgconnect 2011-04-27
Icons-flag-si.png si Wikimedia Slovenia In discussion Writing first draft Wikimedia Slovenia on meta / w:sl:Wikipedija:Društvo on sl.wikipedia.org none yet Wikimedia Slovenia or
Miha/xJaM/Yerpo
2008-08-13
Icons-flag-tr.png tr Wikimedia Türkiye In discussion Early development Wikimedia Türkiye on Meta / tr.wikimedia.org wikimedia-tr #wikimedia-tr 2011-11-01
Flag of Massachusetts.svg us-bo Wikimedia Boston In discussion pending Meta None yet Kevin Rutherford 2011-12-22
Flag of California.svg us-ca Wikimedia California In discussion, drafting bylaws pending Meta wikimedia-california Geoff Plourde 2010-05-05
Icons-flag-us.png us-pa Wikimedia Pennsylvania Stalled. In talks with Wikimedia New York City to become part of that organization. en pa.us.wikimedia.org Wikimediapa-l Cbrown1023 talk, SB_Johnny, Whiteknight, or #wikimedia-pa 2009-04-29
Icons-flag-uy.png uy Wikimedia Uruguay Translation of bylaws Draft of bylaws Wikimedia Uruguay on Meta wikimedia.uruguay at gmail.com User:Marinna
#wikimedia-uy
2010-11-1

[edit] Ideas for chapters

See the Local chapter FAQ to understand what a local chapter is, and what it entails to create a new one. If you wish to create a local chapter, follow the step-by-step chapter creation guide. In case you have any questions, contact the chapters committee.

[edit] In Europe

  • Wikimedia Belgium - In discussion, calling for supporters.
  • Wikimedia Galiza – In discussion and calling for supporters. We expect that the chapter will be created in mid-2008. Discussion and planning going on at w:gl:Wikipedia:Wikimedia Galiza.
  • Wikimedia Ireland - Very early stages, calling for supporters.
  • Wikimedia Slovakia - planing site exist on slovak project (in english soon), group of 3-5 cummunity members activ, slovak bylaws finished / control reeding through Chapter Community in progress, founding meeting approx end of Nov 2011

[edit] In North America

[edit] In Asia

[edit] In Africa

[edit] In Oceania

[edit] In South America

[edit] Composition of chapters

See also Wikimedia chapters/Summaries

This may be partially outdated; in no particular order:

[edit] Wikimedia Bangladesh

[edit] Wikimedia Canada

[edit] Wikimedia Deutschland (Germany)

(elected on November 19, 2011 - until Nov. 2012)

[edit] Wikimedia District of Columbia (United States)

updated on November 13, 2011

Board members:

[edit] Wikimedia Eesti

Board members:

Audit commission:

[edit] Wikimedia España

[edit] Wikimédia France

(board elected on March 12, 2011; last updated July 19, 2011)

  • Rémi Bachelet (Ofol)
  • Sébastien Beyou (Seb35), vice-treasurer
  • Thierry Coudray (TCY), treasurer
  • Florence Devouard (Anthere), vice-president
  • Christophe Henner (Schiste)
  • Rémi Mathis (Rémi Mathis), president
  • Pierre-Yves Mevel (Pymouss)
  • Willie Robert, secretary
See also : Short biographies of the board members

[edit] Wikimedia Italia (Italy)

[edit] Wikimedia Macedonia

According to Macedonian laws, the name of organization is written in cyrilic: Викимедија Македонија, for international use the name of organization is Wikimedia Macedonia.

President:

Vice-presidents:

Executive board:

Oversight Board:

[edit] Wikimedia Nederland

[edit] Wikimedia Philippines

(Initial Board of Trustees; to serve from April 12, 2010 until May 18, 2013. Officers will serve from July 9, 2011 to May 19, 2012.)

Officers who are not members of the Board of Trustees:

[edit] Wikimedia Norge (Norway)

Updated 2011-04-10

Presentation in English

[edit] Wikimedia Poland

[edit] Wikimedia Portugal

( elected on October 24, 2009 - until 2011 )

[edit] Wikimedia CH (Switzerland)

[edit] Wikimedia UK (United Kingdom)

[edit] Wikimedia Taiwan

[edit] Wikimedia Hong Kong

Directory
  • Rover WONG, President
  • Ivy WONG, Deputy President
  • Vincent TSUI, Secretary
  • Tango CHAN, Treasurer
  • Alexander CHEUNG, Director & Commissioner for Ourtreach
  • Carol TANG, Director & Commissioner for Communication

[edit] Wikimédia Magyarország (Hungary)

[edit] Wikimedia Indonesia

(2011-2012 administration)

Board of Trustees

Board of Executives

[edit] Wikimedia Israel

[edit] Wikimedia Argentina

[edit] Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden)

[edit] Wikimedia Česká republika (Czech Republic)

Board and Audit comittee elected on June 2011 for one year:

Board

Audit comittee

[edit] Wikimedia Australia

Committee (2011–2012):

Public Officer
  • Anne Frazer

[edit] Wikimedia Österreich (Austria)

elected 2010-11-26

[edit] Wikimedia New York City

[edit] Wikimedia Ukraine

[edit] Wikimedia Suomi (Finland)

[edit] Wikimedia India

For biographical summaries, please visit Wikimedia India Chapter Executive Committee Members

[edit] Wikimedia Chile

[edit] Wikimedia Serbia

[edit] Wikimedia Venezuela

[edit] Inter-chapter initiatives

Active:

Ideas:

[edit] Mailing lists and wikis

Apart from public mailing lists (most notably Chapters-reports) and websites listed elsewhere, there are two main private channels for communication and coordination among chapters, which existing chapters must follow and participate in:

  • Internal wiki and Internal-l – Local Chapters, board and officers coordination: each chapter can subscribe an unlimited number of board members (as of 13th August 2010), with an e-mail to the list admin by the president; additional members can be subscribed following the usual procedure (endorsement by a subscribed person + consensus on wiki);
  • Chapters wiki and chapters-l for discussions and decisions among chapters: each chapter can subscribe unlimited board members (and some staffer) and an email by the president of the chapter to the list admins with the list of email addresses to add/remove is the usual process; there are also other lists for working groups, generally subsets of the previous one, apart some more open lists (e.g. GLAM).

[edit] Notes

  1. Is the chapter formally recognized as a Nonprofit organization under its nation's laws? "n/a" should be used if the country's laws do not recognize a nonprofit status.
  2. A small no profit association doesn't require the formal approval. It's sufficient to follow the law and to have a bylaws compliant with to the law[1][2]. The tax exemption has been formally approved [3].
  3. Wikimedia Chile applied to the Ministry of Justice for approval as a "nonprofit private corporation" on its bylaws (Art. 1). Currently, the approval by the Ministry is in its final steps.
  4. All associations are non-profit by definition in the Czech republic.
  5. Based on Wikimedia Indonesia Board of Executive Meeting
  6. Wikimedia India chapter ( Registered Name: Wikimedia Chapter) is registered as a Non-profit Society vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District. However applications to tax-exemption for the society and its donors are still pending.
  7. There is no separate official non-profit status. However, we have been granted charity status (ANBI) by the tax office since jan 2010, which, among other demands, requires that the organization is a non-profit by its bylaws and operates as a non-profit in practice.
  8. Wikimedia Philippines is applying for NGO accreditation and donee institution status (tax-exempt status).
  9. All associations are non-profit by definition in Poland
  10. All organizations in Portugal have Non profit status.
  11. All associations are non-profit by definition in Serbia.

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