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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][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 7,150,177 65,268,600 1,338,353,207 813 51,893,101 285,731 962,947
2 Urdu ur 240,974 2,336,134 9,466,094 9 208,156 362 8,678
3 Hindi hi 168,195 1,386,094 6,516,106 7 895,208 1,106 4,664
4 Tamil ta 181,552 617,202 4,473,804 32 256,010 546 9,684
5 Bengali bn 184,856 1,396,576 8,833,694 16 532,401 2,837 21,372
6 Telugu te 121,259 410,536 4,660,729 11 144,741 391 15,019
7 Malayalam ml 87,866 551,727 4,353,012 13 201,496 531 7,453
8 Marathi mr 101,492 329,517 2,666,789 10 178,631 398 2,432
9 Nepali ne 29,493 112,853 1,339,106 6 76,519 145 1,479
10 Punjabi pa 59,481 192,127 832,207 10 57,923 126 1,866
11 Gujarati gu 30,823 135,662 897,306 3 84,972 98 0
12 Kannada kn 34,825 159,331 1,327,334 4 96,646 278 2,359
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,092 63,412 895,442 2 27,866 27 35
14 Odia or 20,658 86,974 580,132 4 40,987 98 170
15 Maithili mai 14,251 45,671 273,238 4 16,817 45 126
16 Sindhi sd 20,950 75,726 362,381 4 21,595 54 158
17 Sanskrit sa 12,485 82,146 497,898 3 45,259 80 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,933 81,147 788,234 2 39,514 45 54
19 Assamese as 22,474 121,470 587,133 6 48,552 134 2,403
20 Santali sat 14,612 31,111 184,704 3 10,647 42 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,642 8,913 214,168 4 11,609 13 0
22 Divehi dv 3,188 12,471 137,144 2 27,906 28 896
23 Pali pi 301 1,831 103,440 1 8,378 7 1
24 Tulu tcy 3,116 19,294 237,605 5 8,769 21 12
25 Kashmiri ks 9,419 22,803 132,564 2 13,762 28 81

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,135,773 4,852,506 15,780,089 19 3,243,381 568 16,636
2 Gujarati gu 64,899 71,119 220,509 2 4,500 10 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,207 77,170 231,391 4 13,182 20 602
4 Bengali bn 37,294 618,160 1,939,012 4 21,367 34 5,566
5 Sanskrit sa 20,387 162,571 415,457 2 10,327 39 64
6 Telugu te 22,886 204,690 546,787 4 6,970 23 467
7 Tamil ta 34,232 627,205 1,913,134 4 16,471 88 32
8 Kannada kn 7,079 94,756 271,501 2 8,424 43 19
9 Marathi mr 5,362 108,397 228,420 2 5,948 11 15
10 Assamese as 3,648 85,046 237,352 4 4,360 24 195
11 Odia or 1,301 12,298 59,401 2 2,980 2 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,335 69,544 213,492 6 2,578 16 212
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 8,752,375 10,682,508 89,794,845 76 4,396,799 4,815 18
2 Tamil ta 408,639 421,374 2,003,152 7 25,274 46 168
3 Kannada kn 265,518 269,920 692,434 2 8,272 22 0
4 Hindi hi 184,962 207,927 487,055 2 19,870 25 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,400 139,184 573,359 2 10,454 25 4
6 Odia or 108,648 110,915 228,870 2 3,323 5 1
7 Telugu te 107,723 124,067 979,722 1 7,202 9 310
8 Urdu ur 26,091 33,816 112,873 1 5,850 12 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,452 16,779 35,452 1 2,975 3 0
10 Bengali bn 104,750 147,906 503,281 4 14,457 49 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,032 263,489 509,391 1 7,493 4 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,347 8,927 31,497 1 2,589 4 38
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,151 29,316 1 3,969 3 3
14 Gujarati gu 676 6,429 29,261 2 3,508 5 0
15 Nepali ne 592 17,878 66,409 2 5,131 7 23
16 Assamese as 16 259 4,961 1 638 1 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,326 1 509 1 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 232 4,859 1 551 1 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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