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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 7,126,205 64,932,684 1,329,669,015 825 51,182,865 273,399 958,415
2 Urdu ur 238,328 2,322,969 9,338,795 8 205,570 409 8,450
3 Hindi hi 167,221 1,383,822 6,500,657 7 887,914 1,198 4,652
4 Tamil ta 180,363 613,499 4,439,775 32 253,561 511 9,612
5 Bengali bn 180,463 1,384,860 8,738,909 15 523,840 2,241 21,222
6 Telugu te 119,233 405,932 4,623,017 11 143,231 468 14,860
7 Malayalam ml 87,615 550,077 4,343,498 13 199,606 466 7,432
8 Marathi mr 101,168 327,740 2,642,203 10 176,938 448 2,432
9 Nepali ne 29,402 112,371 1,330,545 6 75,561 226 1,474
10 Punjabi pa 59,342 191,390 827,972 10 57,291 149 1,863
11 Gujarati gu 30,783 135,244 895,450 3 84,462 104 0
12 Kannada kn 34,374 158,363 1,320,324 5 95,730 204 2,368
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,092 63,439 895,226 2 27,733 20 35
14 Odia or 20,280 85,957 575,297 4 40,618 66 170
15 Maithili mai 14,225 45,508 271,437 4 16,637 33 126
16 Sindhi sd 19,900 72,312 349,552 4 21,346 42 158
17 Sanskrit sa 12,476 81,875 497,337 3 44,959 48 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,873 80,826 786,340 2 39,240 35 54
19 Assamese as 21,138 118,560 570,638 6 47,883 167 2,395
20 Santali sat 14,405 30,661 182,938 3 10,462 36 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,642 8,909 214,045 4 11,533 14 0
22 Divehi dv 3,195 12,528 136,985 2 27,734 24 896
23 Pali pi 301 1,833 103,425 1 8,318 14 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,970 18,424 234,598 5 8,663 25 12
25 Kashmiri ks 8,696 21,443 127,600 2 13,506 33 78

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,128,691 4,813,112 15,656,260 18 3,227,339 595 16,721
2 Gujarati gu 64,666 70,864 219,713 2 4,476 9 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,208 77,163 231,279 4 13,139 26 602
4 Bengali bn 37,169 620,046 1,932,462 4 21,212 35 5,490
5 Sanskrit sa 20,388 162,511 414,479 2 10,234 63 64
6 Telugu te 22,797 202,203 541,225 4 6,900 40 466
7 Tamil ta 33,078 620,993 1,893,809 4 16,272 56 32
8 Kannada kn 7,074 94,252 269,376 2 8,353 13 19
9 Marathi mr 5,350 108,216 227,543 2 5,887 12 15
10 Assamese as 3,629 83,769 232,879 4 4,314 38 172
11 Odia or 1,297 12,248 59,348 2 2,965 4 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,330 69,275 211,756 6 2,548 23 212
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 8,696,147 10,579,584 89,290,949 76 4,371,146 5,048 18
2 Tamil ta 408,615 421,338 2,001,900 7 25,094 39 168
3 Kannada kn 265,512 269,914 692,354 2 8,215 35 0
4 Hindi hi 184,952 207,906 486,951 1 19,745 31 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,321 139,161 556,253 2 10,404 13 4
6 Odia or 108,643 110,908 228,831 2 3,300 10 1
7 Telugu te 107,711 124,050 979,448 1 7,137 41 310
8 Urdu ur 26,760 33,741 112,583 1 5,813 4 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,452 16,780 35,450 1 2,959 4 0
10 Bengali bn 106,987 146,690 464,836 4 14,279 44 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,029 263,486 509,380 1 7,437 4 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,343 8,870 31,357 1 2,570 6 38
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,153 29,312 1 3,947 5 3
14 Gujarati gu 674 6,428 29,254 2 3,495 7 0
15 Nepali ne 580 17,875 66,203 2 5,108 6 23
16 Assamese as 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Pali pi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 0 0 0 0 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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