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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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Official Contacts[edit]

WikimediaIndia-l[edit]

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[edit]

List of Mailing Lists specific to India

IRC[edit]

To join the discussion on IRC, join us in #wikimedia-in

Social Media[edit]


People[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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.

Wikimedia Projects[edit]

Wikipedia[edit]

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 6,175,230 51,722,072 979,158,731 1,127 40,120,042 132,397 890,996
2 Urdu ur 157,644 886,134 4,259,234 12 120,743 290 10,682
3 Hindi hi 142,510 1,047,627 4,978,460 8 590,938 1,403 3,480
4 Tamil ta 131,734 417,269 3,037,774 35 181,887 291 7,786
5 Bengali bn 96,036 857,192 4,612,390 12 304,627 1,394 10,885
6 Telugu te 69,732 275,556 3,038,065 13 100,983 198 13,420
7 Malayalam ml 70,687 441,863 3,400,114 16 143,547 351 6,418
8 Marathi mr 63,616 243,727 1,827,207 9 127,260 217 19,143
9 Nepali ne 33,505 99,974 937,808 4 50,327 134 1,260
10 Punjabi pa 34,807 121,485 547,383 8 34,881 94 1,494
11 Gujarati gu 29,131 104,621 723,448 3 59,720 68 0
12 Kannada kn 26,625 119,833 1,008,603 5 65,932 141 2,459
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,095 58,759 783,888 2 21,113 25 49
14 Odia or 15,684 68,368 407,667 6 26,667 59 124
15 Maithili mai 13,606 36,058 209,815 6 9,397 40 114
16 Sindhi sd 13,761 45,682 202,445 4 12,714 39 99
17 Sanskrit sa 11,463 63,223 454,530 5 30,316 36 441
18 Bhojpuri bh 7,363 60,764 680,531 2 24,122 39 53
19 Assamese as 7,373 55,535 249,255 5 27,884 98 1,371
20 Santali sat 4,649 12,493 61,753 3 2,965 39 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,723 8,784 188,418 3 6,710 18 0
22 Divehi dv 2,958 10,678 123,028 3 21,095 15 933
23 Pali pi 2,543 4,496 96,566 1 5,693 7 0
24 Tulu tcy 1,406 6,604 88,276 2 3,890 25 0
25 Kashmiri ks 425 1,808 33,619 1 7,750 9 0

Wikisource[edit]

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 820,769 3,205,155 10,507,224 26 2,964,586 372 19,970
2 Gujarati gu 32,202 36,259 136,958 3 2,781 15 0
3 Malayalam ml 19,159 69,932 206,661 5 10,537 22 604
4 Bengali bn 18,497 748,052 1,464,345 4 12,956 39 8,774
5 Sanskrit sa 17,220 105,775 278,614 3 6,223 38 63
6 Telugu te 15,407 89,724 315,888 5 4,567 11 386
7 Tamil ta 14,492 429,012 1,166,646 4 8,073 57 42
8 Kannada kn 7,153 87,335 226,557 2 6,081 16 6
9 Marathi mr 2,224 63,594 110,767 3 3,654 16 15
10 Assamese as 2,111 44,616 89,017 3 2,234 31 8
11 Odia or 905 10,807 47,533 2 1,979 10 0
12 Punjabi pa 860 44,246 117,369 4 1,266 24 197
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[edit]

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 6,441,867 7,221,744 60,837,239 100 3,750,064 1,779 24
2 Tamil ta 357,687 369,384 1,898,566 10 16,380 40 243
3 Kannada kn 264,157 267,824 660,899 1 5,271 13 0
4 Hindi hi 183,179 204,792 469,366 2 12,094 17 6
5 Malayalam ml 130,613 138,020 545,075 6 7,348 18 4
6 Odia or 108,594 109,984 161,392 2 2,238 3 1
7 Gujarati te 106,380 122,176 964,708 4 4,745 3 931
8 Urdu ur 25,623 32,759 107,801 2 3,862 4 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,383 16,475 34,148 2 2,089 2 0
10 Bengali bn 12,285 20,240 68,892 2 6,724 17 3
11 Sanskrit sa 5,992 263,436 507,944 1 4,900 6 4
12 Gujarati sd 1,785 5,406 26,806 1 1,891 2 43
13 Marathi mr 1,693 4,128 19,978 1 2,976 5 3
14 Gujarati gu 603 5,496 25,277 2 2,657 10 0
15 Nepali ne 359 16,501 62,331 1 3,177 5 25
16 Assamese as 16 258 4,958 1 571 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 54 3,323 1 462 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 231 4,856 1 505 0 0

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