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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 6,918,732 61,945,676 1,255,989,665 848 48,349,774 121,250 930,619
2 Urdu ur 215,121 1,114,938 6,448,300 8 187,514 261 7,418
3 Hindi hi 163,479 1,349,350 6,304,863 7 836,423 724 4,582
4 Tamil ta 169,822 583,376 4,143,064 32 238,547 243 8,929
5 Bengali bn 160,457 1,284,640 7,771,867 14 476,284 1,167 19,520
6 Telugu te 101,713 366,884 4,315,026 11 133,142 162 13,977
7 Malayalam ml 86,260 530,474 4,049,587 14 185,301 228 7,320
8 Marathi mr 98,579 318,213 2,502,013 10 166,884 158 8,567
9 Nepali ne 31,318 110,599 1,256,572 6 69,519 96 1,323
10 Punjabi pa 55,265 179,810 773,188 10 51,923 92 1,840
11 Gujarati gu 30,474 130,646 873,513 3 80,132 64 0
12 Kannada kn 33,039 142,734 1,256,905 4 89,751 212 2,467
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,087 63,427 894,303 2 26,460 26 35
14 Odia or 18,866 82,188 548,003 4 37,804 52 174
15 Maithili mai 14,118 43,606 264,248 5 14,977 34 120
16 Sindhi sd 18,520 64,565 298,256 4 19,451 45 157
17 Sanskrit sa 12,219 77,965 489,651 3 41,654 54 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,744 78,235 774,057 2 36,696 35 54
19 Assamese as 14,246 98,259 450,128 6 43,120 113 1,934
20 Santali sat 11,830 25,512 157,024 3 8,693 48 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,604 9,497 212,643 4 10,689 17 0
22 Divehi dv 3,141 12,410 135,271 2 26,231 22 931
23 Pali pi 2,558 4,674 102,479 1 7,780 17 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,526 14,142 146,406 3 7,145 34 13
25 Kashmiri ks 5,939 15,400 98,796 2 11,804 26 13

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,079,213 4,484,709 14,688,662 21 3,147,623 451 16,299
2 Gujarati gu 62,923 68,805 212,511 2 4,162 17 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,538 74,173 221,159 3 12,535 71 594
4 Bengali bn 34,342 676,286 1,844,985 4 19,807 47 6,308
5 Sanskrit sa 20,057 161,280 404,831 2 9,309 15 64
6 Telugu te 20,301 152,997 454,705 4 6,269 25 559
7 Tamil ta 26,868 590,072 1,757,074 4 15,070 56 41
8 Kannada kn 7,249 94,073 266,233 2 7,745 17 19
9 Marathi mr 4,882 102,880 210,334 2 5,486 18 15
10 Assamese as 3,172 71,138 195,253 3 3,818 28 85
11 Odia or 1,289 11,709 57,572 2 2,755 11 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,688 63,711 182,954 6 2,162 39 212
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 8,246,243 9,854,022 82,786,697 75 4,234,675 2,272 16
2 Tamil ta 408,419 421,117 1,997,895 7 23,838 40 204
3 Kannada kn 265,155 269,203 678,855 2 7,530 21 0
4 Hindi hi 184,196 206,736 482,475 2 18,462 22 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,288 139,110 555,513 3 9,860 14 4
6 Odia or 108,634 110,846 228,505 2 3,019 10 1
7 Telugu te 106,654 122,116 970,183 2 6,528 17 681
8 Urdu ur 26,680 33,664 112,113 1 5,445 21 2
9 Punjabi pa 3,303 16,672 35,153 1 2,736 12 0
10 Bengali bn 98,537 138,068 307,687 3 12,227 38 6
11 Sanskrit sa 6,026 263,475 509,226 1 6,888 11 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,199 7,477 29,544 1 2,368 12 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,155 29,246 1 3,727 8 3
14 Gujarati gu 667 6,404 29,141 2 3,277 9 0
15 Nepali ne 433 16,749 63,706 1 4,799 10 23
16 Assamese as 16 257 4,958 1 581 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 53 3,323 1 472 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 230 4,856 1 514 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.