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Email: chapter(_AT_)wikimedia.in
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The Wikimedia India Chapter (Registered Name: Wikimedia Chapter) was 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 was 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 7,251,692 66,398,704 1,375,058,830 808 54,927,702 271,802 978,884
2 Urdu ur 705,193 3,079,365 12,112,848 9 221,618 406 10,653
3 Hindi hi 172,016 1,394,202 6,611,810 8 930,294 1,061 4,716
4 Tamil ta 191,174 636,396 4,651,029 31 267,275 490 10,033
5 Bengali bn 192,006 1,428,851 9,196,046 16 565,723 1,724 22,011
6 Telugu te 129,668 430,588 4,837,998 11 152,037 396 15,358
7 Malayalam ml 89,137 557,603 4,413,935 13 210,079 464 7,551
8 Marathi mr 103,362 336,681 2,715,255 10 185,687 287 2,400
9 Nepali ne 30,053 115,414 1,385,489 5 80,186 153 1,504
10 Punjabi pa 59,741 193,550 847,964 10 60,813 134 1,811
11 Gujarati gu 30,934 136,959 904,597 3 87,540 90 0
12 Kannada kn 34,691 167,286 1,424,965 6 100,127 244 2,362
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,098 63,444 895,842 2 28,488 19 35
14 Odia or 21,131 88,270 596,658 4 42,680 67 170
15 Maithili mai 14,368 46,193 277,844 5 17,896 37 127
16 Sindhi sd 22,684 87,557 420,950 4 22,680 50 159
17 Sanskrit sa 12,580 82,828 500,763 3 46,565 53 443
18 Bhojpuri bh 9,246 82,313 802,867 2 40,835 42 54
19 Assamese as 25,865 128,112 644,317 6 51,637 194 2,447
20 Santali sat 16,064 34,391 195,232 3 11,598 57 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,644 9,056 215,050 3 11,949 13 0
22 Divehi dv 3,235 12,517 137,746 2 28,701 21 882
23 Pali pi 322 8,070 110,634 1 8,761 21 1
24 Tulu tcy 3,987 23,004 255,971 6 9,138 40 14
25 Kashmiri ks 11,824 27,732 153,734 2 14,710 22 94

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,133,923 4,890,631 16,350,581 20 3,314,031 718 16,662
2 Gujarati gu 66,449 72,765 225,330 2 4,681 11 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,841 82,645 241,579 3 13,602 35 620
4 Bengali bn 39,306 615,641 2,002,167 4 22,450 35 5,487
5 Sanskrit sa 20,442 164,359 418,735 2 10,768 27 64
6 Telugu te 24,150 222,153 581,771 4 7,301 30 515
7 Tamil ta 38,461 655,163 1,977,736 4 17,350 306 33
8 Kannada kn 1,555 112,719 315,894 2 8,686 52 18
9 Marathi mr 4,739 110,127 237,832 2 6,235 11 15
10 Assamese as 4,409 92,811 262,125 4 4,543 31 242
11 Odia or 1,317 12,544 59,691 1 3,090 7 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,541 74,431 239,952 6 2,763 31 212
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 9,212,270 11,347,880 93,490,786 76 4,504,296 4,769 19
2 Tamil ta 408,815 421,585 2,004,080 7 25,864 41 168
3 Kannada kn 265,559 269,995 693,109 2 8,550 26 0
4 Hindi hi 185,112 206,029 489,511 2 20,507 32 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,455 139,212 581,125 2 10,642 11 4
6 Odia or 108,659 110,935 229,019 2 3,416 8 1
7 Telugu te 107,744 124,100 980,035 1 7,436 16 310
8 Urdu ur 26,102 33,831 112,923 1 6,002 9 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,456 16,784 35,481 1 3,043 5 0
10 Bengali bn 164,553 214,592 613,344 2 16,831 44 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,034 263,493 509,426 1 7,731 6 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,359 9,048 31,706 1 2,652 5 38
13 Marathi mr 2,707 6,161 29,397 1 4,051 4 3
14 Gujarati gu 725 6,463 29,344 1 3,578 7 0
15 Nepali ne 600 17,920 66,705 2 5,231 5 23
16 Assamese as 16 257 4,961 1 640 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,326 1 512 1 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 230 4,859 1 553 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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