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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 7,022,552 63,502,368 1,295,643,014 835 49,400,874 107,146 941,575
2 Urdu ur 229,355 2,244,773 8,912,626 8 196,138 247 7,954
3 Hindi hi 165,742 1,375,063 6,438,894 7 859,661 1,176 4,614
4 Tamil ta 175,151 598,970 4,298,293 32 244,850 243 9,391
5 Bengali bn 173,122 1,345,034 8,301,055 15 496,784 909 20,514
6 Telugu te 114,367 394,038 4,511,105 11 137,631 164 14,449
7 Malayalam ml 87,088 544,329 4,295,913 14 193,221 220 7,373
8 Marathi mr 99,989 321,315 2,583,891 10 171,161 137 3,354
9 Nepali ne 29,859 111,406 1,292,426 4 72,154 101 1,447
10 Punjabi pa 58,840 187,764 811,134 10 54,558 97 1,852
11 Gujarati gu 30,611 133,143 885,964 3 82,184 53 0
12 Kannada kn 33,861 156,048 1,303,326 4 92,378 191 2,354
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,088 63,454 894,963 2 27,119 18 35
14 Odia or 19,658 84,116 562,576 4 39,148 51 170
15 Maithili mai 14,208 44,594 267,860 4 15,735 29 125
16 Sindhi sd 19,225 67,181 322,864 4 20,376 37 158
17 Sanskrit sa 12,295 80,068 493,852 3 43,321 75 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,829 79,802 783,312 2 37,999 27 54
19 Assamese as 18,928 111,738 523,595 6 45,355 102 2,300
20 Santali sat 13,444 28,539 172,634 3 9,537 37 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,629 8,874 213,722 4 11,135 28 0
22 Divehi dv 3,143 12,499 136,153 2 27,002 17 931
23 Pali pi 2,545 4,494 102,650 1 8,040 9 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,836 15,451 166,403 3 7,579 19 13
25 Kashmiri ks 7,166 17,884 111,517 2 12,606 16 60

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,104,389 4,664,876 15,195,586 20 3,173,962 450 16,634
2 Gujarati gu 64,396 70,448 216,457 2 4,333 7 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,087 76,757 230,309 4 12,890 16 599
4 Bengali bn 36,670 636,699 1,894,797 4 20,515 32 5,696
5 Sanskrit sa 20,265 162,289 409,685 2 9,706 16 64
6 Telugu te 21,850 188,658 510,763 4 6,619 27 579
7 Tamil ta 30,160 611,045 1,840,307 4 15,544 44 32
8 Kannada kn 7,047 94,153 268,512 2 8,000 7 19
9 Marathi mr 5,289 106,710 222,817 2 5,688 7 15
10 Assamese as 2,957 73,614 206,124 4 4,107 20 112
11 Odia or 1,295 12,049 59,046 2 2,865 7 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,105 66,443 198,008 6 2,334 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 8,479,025 10,243,332 85,508,465 76 4,291,426 2,351 16
2 Tamil ta 408,543 421,220 1,999,962 7 24,457 19 168
3 Kannada kn 265,422 269,831 691,663 2 7,880 11 0
4 Hindi hi 184,895 207,704 486,247 2 19,152 27 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,302 139,125 555,943 3 10,158 15 4
6 Odia or 108,636 110,868 228,634 2 3,155 3 1
7 Telugu te 107,552 123,915 978,638 1 6,832 27 310
8 Urdu ur 26,748 33,712 112,468 1 5,643 6 2
9 Punjabi pa 12,277 16,696 35,287 2 2,851 3 0
10 Bengali bn 103,343 145,696 325,095 4 13,323 160 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,026 263,465 509,312 1 7,164 6 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,337 8,574 30,996 1 2,474 3 38
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,150 29,284 1 3,851 1 3
14 Gujarati gu 667 6,418 29,223 2 3,390 4 0
15 Nepali ne 433 16,742 63,796 1 4,954 1 23
16 Assamese as 16 259 4,960 1 620 1 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,325 1 497 1 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 232 4,858 1 536 1 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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