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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 7,167,408 65,443,174 1,343,493,536 811 52,316,251 277,744 965,485
2 Urdu ur 265,765 2,480,896 9,769,241 9 209,753 406 8,787
3 Hindi hi 168,987 1,387,299 6,525,229 7 899,852 1,023 4,666
4 Tamil ta 182,683 619,568 4,503,638 31 257,587 500 9,723
5 Bengali bn 186,667 1,402,936 8,881,912 16 536,738 1,937 21,424
6 Telugu te 122,424 413,220 4,680,111 11 145,648 337 15,076
7 Malayalam ml 87,984 552,761 4,358,873 13 202,727 450 7,458
8 Marathi mr 101,781 330,609 2,674,124 10 179,708 454 2,431
9 Nepali ne 29,712 113,393 1,344,499 6 77,131 177 1,480
10 Punjabi pa 59,499 192,473 834,779 10 58,347 157 1,865
11 Gujarati gu 30,841 135,931 898,172 3 85,288 100 0
12 Kannada kn 34,997 159,592 1,366,373 4 97,057 162 2,360
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,092 63,412 895,468 2 27,956 22 35
14 Odia or 20,835 87,466 584,658 4 41,304 90 170
15 Maithili mai 14,328 45,855 273,835 4 16,954 49 126
16 Sindhi sd 21,333 78,390 370,975 4 21,763 50 159
17 Sanskrit sa 12,491 82,319 498,244 3 45,455 46 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,965 81,363 789,419 2 39,677 50 54
19 Assamese as 24,001 124,682 599,927 6 48,913 142 2,412
20 Santali sat 14,855 31,619 186,513 3 10,781 51 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,642 8,918 214,221 4 11,653 19 0
22 Divehi dv 3,189 12,478 137,199 2 28,007 28 896
23 Pali pi 299 1,820 103,455 1 8,425 12 1
24 Tulu tcy 3,512 20,827 241,513 5 8,824 39 12
25 Kashmiri ks 9,912 23,562 135,037 1 13,926 26 84

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,139,758 4,874,581 15,861,759 19 3,252,695 767 16,612
2 Gujarati gu 65,064 71,299 221,092 2 4,516 12 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,207 77,169 231,431 3 13,210 13 602
4 Bengali bn 37,372 618,880 1,942,296 4 21,484 38 5,568
5 Sanskrit sa 20,389 162,589 415,628 2 10,384 27 64
6 Telugu te 22,935 205,980 549,922 4 6,997 26 467
7 Tamil ta 34,747 630,218 1,921,078 4 16,522 54 33
8 Kannada kn 7,216 95,003 272,820 2 8,460 24 19
9 Marathi mr 5,373 108,628 229,131 2 5,976 18 15
10 Assamese as 3,734 89,717 247,411 4 4,385 23 224
11 Odia or 1,302 12,330 59,440 2 2,993 7 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,341 70,303 215,441 6 2,593 29 212
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 8,786,676 10,736,248 90,078,145 76 4,412,117 4,836 19
2 Tamil ta 408,647 421,386 2,003,288 7 25,375 53 168
3 Kannada kn 265,522 269,923 692,484 2 8,311 23 0
4 Hindi hi 184,969 207,945 487,108 2 19,954 29 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,440 139,188 580,945 2 10,487 16 4
6 Odia or 108,649 110,916 228,877 2 3,334 3 1
7 Telugu te 107,729 124,076 979,809 1 7,242 11 310
8 Urdu ur 26,091 33,815 112,875 1 5,870 4 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,452 16,777 35,453 1 2,985 5 0
10 Bengali bn 105,321 150,048 507,740 3 14,562 36 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,032 263,487 509,393 1 7,524 8 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,355 8,968 31,585 1 2,600 8 38
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,150 29,320 1 3,982 6 3
14 Gujarati gu 677 6,431 29,265 2 3,519 7 0
15 Nepali ne 600 17,908 66,547 2 5,146 8 23
16 Assamese as 16 259 4,961 1 639 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,326 1 511 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 232 4,859 1 552 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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