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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]

Wikimedia Projects

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Wikipedia

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 6,984,631 62,979,996 1,281,991,423 845 49,026,594 119,225 936,481
2 Urdu ur 220,693 2,057,493 8,339,520 8 193,093 251 7,685
3 Hindi hi 165,451 1,368,144 6,390,243 7 851,326 710 4,625
4 Tamil ta 173,567 593,507 4,248,135 32 242,865 288 9,181
5 Bengali bn 168,269 1,318,705 8,119,596 15 489,768 966 20,033
6 Telugu te 111,890 389,419 4,455,875 11 136,278 205 14,254
7 Malayalam ml 86,720 541,719 4,272,450 14 191,635 214 7,338
8 Marathi mr 99,832 321,794 2,554,855 10 169,717 153 6,688
9 Nepali ne 29,882 110,984 1,277,295 5 71,179 104 1,433
10 Punjabi pa 58,529 186,205 803,736 10 53,570 179 1,848
11 Gujarati gu 30,559 132,263 882,985 3 81,431 91 0
12 Kannada kn 33,709 155,180 1,297,506 4 91,474 104 2,350
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,088 63,451 894,638 2 26,905 16 35
14 Odia or 19,490 83,685 558,648 4 38,719 45 170
15 Maithili mai 14,207 44,287 267,079 5 15,457 31 125
16 Sindhi sd 19,058 66,217 313,459 4 20,057 42 158
17 Sanskrit sa 12,281 79,373 492,295 3 42,736 61 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,811 79,307 782,265 2 37,567 35 54
19 Assamese as 18,296 109,511 503,850 6 44,610 109 2,222
20 Santali sat 13,278 28,115 170,129 3 9,209 40 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,615 9,457 213,160 4 10,998 22 0
22 Divehi dv 3,123 12,466 135,768 2 26,741 29 931
23 Pali pi 2,558 4,677 102,578 1 7,966 7 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,809 15,272 165,218 3 7,469 23 13
25 Kashmiri ks 6,785 17,142 107,281 2 12,300 28 43

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,078,219 4,605,606 15,019,413 22 3,164,387 494 16,612
2 Gujarati gu 64,240 70,255 215,109 2 4,300 10 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,073 76,559 229,579 4 12,820 33 599
4 Bengali bn 36,061 656,709 1,876,313 4 20,277 44 6,059
5 Sanskrit sa 20,104 161,869 408,342 2 9,604 15 64
6 Telugu te 20,797 163,704 474,978 4 6,529 115 543
7 Tamil ta 28,405 602,403 1,799,941 4 15,376 47 35
8 Kannada kn 7,047 94,141 268,432 2 7,948 9 19
9 Marathi mr 5,155 105,609 219,029 2 5,632 17 15
10 Assamese as 2,838 71,756 201,877 3 4,021 21 87
11 Odia or 1,287 11,998 58,726 2 2,839 8 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,758 64,914 191,895 6 2,264 26 212
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 8,399,075 10,090,258 84,577,201 76 4,271,051 2,439 16
2 Tamil ta 408,531 421,203 1,999,430 7 24,254 32 168
3 Kannada kn 265,425 269,820 691,424 2 7,781 16 0
4 Hindi hi 184,216 206,900 483,509 2 18,915 24 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,294 139,111 555,783 3 10,057 9 4
6 Odia or 108,636 110,862 228,599 2 3,110 4 1
7 Telugu te 106,990 122,412 972,039 1 6,720 12 346
8 Urdu ur 26,724 33,710 112,268 1 5,574 8 2
9 Punjabi pa 3,307 16,691 35,218 1 2,812 5 0
10 Bengali bn 98,543 138,425 310,627 3 12,761 31 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,026 263,466 509,297 1 7,069 6 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,318 8,342 30,666 1 2,443 4 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,151 29,266 1 3,811 4 3
14 Gujarati gu 669 6,407 29,195 2 3,357 3 0
15 Nepali ne 433 16,742 63,770 1 4,906 5 23
16 Assamese as 16 258 4,959 1 583 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 54 3,324 1 474 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 231 4,857 1 516 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. 
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