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Email: chapter(_AT_)wikimedia.in
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The Wikimedia India Chapter (Registered Name: Wikimedia Chapter) was 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 was 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][2]

Wikimedia Projects

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Wikipedia

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 7,226,217 66,110,882 1,365,106,978 813 54,103,914 251,002 974,546
2 Urdu ur 673,328 3,014,461 11,782,262 9 217,825 408 10,466
3 Hindi hi 170,845 1,391,934 6,584,070 8 920,633 965 4,710
4 Tamil ta 189,572 633,301 4,615,225 31 264,377 578 9,950
5 Bengali bn 190,581 1,423,804 9,108,689 16 556,626 1,945 21,741
6 Telugu te 127,744 427,218 4,797,482 11 149,916 400 15,348
7 Malayalam ml 88,528 555,595 4,397,919 13 207,817 405 7,524
8 Marathi mr 102,708 334,346 2,698,482 10 183,773 310 2,400
9 Nepali ne 30,046 115,010 1,363,038 5 79,262 162 1,498
10 Punjabi pa 59,659 193,206 842,641 10 60,055 114 1,865
11 Gujarati gu 30,909 136,628 902,427 3 86,815 105 0
12 Kannada kn 35,544 160,994 1,378,042 4 99,083 161 2,357
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,097 63,429 895,699 2 28,347 22 35
14 Odia or 21,007 87,928 591,644 4 42,167 82 170
15 Maithili mai 14,360 46,129 275,917 4 17,488 46 126
16 Sindhi sd 22,145 85,121 404,305 4 22,415 39 159
17 Sanskrit sa 12,532 82,669 499,660 3 46,263 43 443
18 Bhojpuri bh 9,188 82,193 801,084 2 40,495 42 54
19 Assamese as 25,197 126,869 628,338 6 50,625 137 2,424
20 Santali sat 15,798 33,990 193,255 2 11,343 39 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,643 8,929 214,379 3 11,863 16 0
22 Divehi dv 3,220 12,505 137,603 2 28,525 25 884
23 Pali pi 304 1,831 103,548 1 8,639 11 1
24 Tulu tcy 3,833 22,148 248,827 5 9,031 36 13
25 Kashmiri ks 11,495 26,936 149,559 2 14,480 26 94

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,125,157 4,849,505 16,230,970 20 3,304,408 620 16,661
2 Gujarati gu 65,954 72,236 224,074 2 4,617 13 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,834 81,629 239,279 3 13,503 48 620
4 Bengali bn 38,734 614,806 1,993,785 4 22,084 41 5,476
5 Sanskrit sa 20,427 163,910 418,029 2 10,653 29 64
6 Telugu te 23,795 212,195 567,692 4 7,201 30 494
7 Tamil ta 37,384 641,786 1,956,243 4 16,757 60 33
8 Kannada kn 1,555 112,689 315,012 2 8,597 16 18
9 Marathi mr 5,146 109,789 235,760 2 6,139 15 15
10 Assamese as 4,195 92,349 257,604 4 4,481 16 239
11 Odia or 1,309 12,485 59,623 1 3,052 9 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,529 72,518 232,344 6 2,717 33 212
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 9,038,216 11,111,388 92,021,023 76 4,485,167 4,689 19
2 Tamil ta 408,721 421,470 2,003,758 7 25,674 32 168
3 Kannada kn 265,553 269,966 692,919 2 8,481 24 0
4 Hindi hi 184,996 207,999 487,427 2 20,305 22 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,446 139,196 581,055 2 10,608 7 4
6 Odia or 108,659 110,932 229,005 2 3,389 6 1
7 Telugu te 107,743 124,097 979,967 1 7,376 11 310
8 Urdu ur 26,100 33,828 112,911 1 5,960 7 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,451 16,778 35,469 1 3,024 3 0
10 Bengali bn 118,031 163,914 532,718 2 15,901 273 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,034 263,492 509,420 1 7,675 3 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,358 9,023 31,674 1 2,635 7 38
13 Marathi mr 2,704 6,159 29,376 1 4,033 4 3
14 Gujarati gu 684 6,434 29,284 2 3,563 3 0
15 Nepali ne 600 17,919 66,602 2 5,207 4 23
16 Assamese as 16 257 4,961 1 640 1 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,326 1 512 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 230 4,859 1 553 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. 
  2. ↑ FAQ from AffCom
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