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Mailing list: WikimediaIndia-l
Email: chapter(_AT_)wikimedia.in
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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(_AT_)wikimedia.in )
  • Sanket Oswal  : Treasurer (sanket_oswal(_AT_)wikimedia.in)
  • Santosh Shingare  : Member (cherishsantosh@wikimedia.in)
  • Viswanathan Prabhakaran  : Member (viswaprabha@wikimedia.in)
Write to the EC at wikimedia-in-exec(_AT_)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 7,090,308 64,462,105 1,317,418,626 829 50,120,774 183,265 952,891
2 Urdu ur 234,763 2,294,564 9,181,403 8 201,759 412 8,273
3 Hindi hi 167,091 1,382,090 6,482,529 7 876,517 1,336 4,645
4 Tamil ta 178,381 607,785 4,393,981 32 249,383 638 9,538
5 Bengali bn 177,229 1,366,341 8,567,438 15 511,457 2,272 20,871
6 Telugu te 116,908 399,461 4,569,154 11 140,372 436 14,745
7 Malayalam ml 87,380 547,798 4,327,825 14 196,739 547 7,413
8 Marathi mr 100,718 325,656 2,624,674 10 174,483 386 2,432
9 Nepali ne 29,271 111,839 1,322,200 5 74,185 192 1,471
10 Punjabi pa 59,165 189,885 822,171 10 56,228 144 1,861
11 Gujarati gu 30,712 134,533 892,314 3 83,623 163 0
12 Kannada kn 34,024 157,599 1,313,453 5 94,414 235 2,362
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,092 63,451 895,168 2 27,517 26 35
14 Odia or 20,012 85,252 570,518 4 40,019 99 170
15 Maithili mai 14,248 45,218 270,485 4 16,320 40 126
16 Sindhi sd 19,634 70,324 340,344 4 21,022 84 158
17 Sanskrit sa 12,403 81,137 495,902 3 44,266 44 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,854 80,526 785,259 2 38,823 47 54
19 Assamese as 20,072 115,327 551,049 6 46,750 179 2,350
20 Santali sat 13,859 29,665 178,686 3 10,085 50 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,643 8,905 213,963 4 11,393 19 0
22 Divehi dv 3,192 12,541 136,886 2 27,467 31 931
23 Pali pi 290 1,827 102,868 1 8,206 14 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,866 17,159 200,966 4 8,417 33 13
25 Kashmiri ks 8,188 20,134 121,662 2 13,178 42 75

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,122,313 4,762,821 15,511,083 19 3,199,574 635 16,700
2 Gujarati gu 64,521 70,681 218,831 2 4,435 13 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,181 77,142 231,033 4 13,069 20 602
4 Bengali bn 36,685 626,842 1,923,350 4 20,980 51 5,631
5 Sanskrit sa 20,362 162,432 410,641 2 10,014 24 64
6 Telugu te 22,357 198,925 530,848 4 6,788 22 469
7 Tamil ta 32,368 616,918 1,879,738 4 15,996 51 32
8 Kannada kn 7,073 94,235 269,233 2 8,258 15 19
9 Marathi mr 5,348 107,811 226,508 2 5,838 9 15
10 Assamese as 3,485 79,525 219,780 4 4,229 28 152
11 Odia or 1,295 12,179 59,266 2 2,943 8 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,295 68,712 208,923 6 2,493 41 212
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 8,610,772 10,446,366 88,136,483 76 4,327,607 2,603 18
2 Tamil ta 408,590 421,301 2,000,499 7 24,835 48 168
3 Kannada kn 265,424 269,815 691,971 2 8,099 29 0
4 Hindi hi 184,900 207,840 486,752 2 19,531 31 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,318 139,159 556,164 2 10,335 26 4
6 Odia or 108,640 110,897 228,756 2 3,259 11 1
7 Telugu te 107,692 124,017 979,148 1 6,995 16 310
8 Urdu ur 26,758 33,738 112,573 1 5,762 8 2
9 Punjabi pa 12,279 16,693 35,300 1 2,931 6 0
10 Bengali bn 106,477 146,150 463,349 4 14,050 41 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,027 263,483 509,371 1 7,336 7 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,339 8,832 31,294 1 2,545 7 38
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,150 29,294 1 3,921 6 3
14 Gujarati gu 669 6,421 29,241 2 3,469 6 0
15 Nepali ne 538 17,839 65,737 2 5,071 9 23
16 Assamese as 16 259 4,960 1 637 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,325 1 508 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 232 4,858 1 550 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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