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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.
  • 14-September-2019 Derecognition of Wikimedia India [1]

Wikimedia Projects[edit]

Wikipedia[edit]

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 6,395,930 54,453,355 1,045,704,520 1,077 42,390,302 125,489 895,348
2 Urdu ur 165,353 952,270 4,772,683 11 136,289 230 11,511
3 Hindi hi 149,920 1,134,399 5,338,502 7 656,837 1,322 3,494
4 Tamil ta 141,588 445,769 3,289,858 34 196,239 313 8,046
5 Bengali bn 114,071 931,002 5,470,688 13 348,254 1,170 13,933
6 Telugu te 73,285 293,756 3,363,697 13 108,268 188 15,566
7 Malayalam ml 75,869 470,732 3,619,945 15 154,618 396 6,743
8 Marathi mr 81,000 269,592 1,959,073 10 137,140 179 19,142
9 Nepali ne 32,189 101,496 1,034,832 7 54,774 86 1,256
10 Punjabi pa 36,507 128,285 579,592 9 38,869 87 1,548
11 Gujarati gu 29,713 111,821 798,856 3 64,566 82 0
12 Kannada kn 27,398 126,535 1,080,170 4 71,170 161 2,473
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,088 62,473 846,886 3 22,457 20 47
14 Odia or 15,855 71,203 434,956 5 29,245 54 125
15 Maithili mai 13,687 37,953 226,637 6 10,648 29 115
16 Sindhi sd 14,733 54,648 229,094 4 14,452 30 127
17 Sanskrit sa 11,532 66,720 461,995 5 33,105 34 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 7,558 64,463 699,080 2 26,961 41 53
19 Assamese as 9,705 67,778 303,738 4 31,289 130 1,577
20 Santali sat 6,683 15,571 82,227 3 4,376 29 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,543 8,907 205,577 3 7,928 12 0
22 Divehi dv 3,009 10,772 123,889 2 22,336 14 933
23 Pali pi 2,576 4,551 99,687 1 6,172 8 0
24 Tulu tcy 1,571 7,961 96,490 2 4,467 20 1
25 Kashmiri ks 907 4,563 46,361 3 8,530 22 0

Wikisource[edit]

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 900,583 3,609,681 11,775,677 24 3,010,791 399 19,425
2 Gujarati gu 37,688 42,367 155,420 3 3,298 9 0
3 Malayalam ml 19,707 70,933 211,484 4 11,135 16 605
4 Bengali bn 18,025 734,175 1,646,336 4 15,220 26 8,583
5 Sanskrit sa 18,367 118,553 322,406 3 7,163 24 64
6 Telugu te 16,854 112,659 370,088 5 5,027 18 433
7 Tamil ta 17,605 436,050 1,397,302 4 10,338 57 42
8 Kannada kn 7,258 89,875 235,047 2 6,520 7 6
9 Marathi mr 2,270 65,810 131,633 2 4,136 11 15
10 Assamese as 2,387 55,547 144,660 2 2,633 22 11
11 Odia or 1,179 11,130 53,380 2 2,182 6 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,179 50,474 133,292 5 1,490 10 198
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 6,811,620 7,758,437 64,233,266 103 3,866,987 1,818 24
2 Tamil ta 360,891 372,954 1,913,242 7 18,204 46 243
3 Kannada kn 264,210 267,779 664,060 1 5,820 13 0
4 Hindi hi 183,410 205,198 472,963 2 13,463 15 6
5 Malayalam ml 130,881 138,474 546,953 6 8,043 11 4
6 Odia or 108,608 110,464 192,134 2 2,441 4 1
7 Gujarati te 106,382 122,234 965,358 4 5,167 5 931
8 Urdu ur 26,484 33,239 109,948 2 4,300 7 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,417 16,524 34,639 2 2,250 3 0
10 Bengali bn 33,155 44,390 112,523 2 7,748 18 3
11 Sanskrit sa 6,000 263,465 508,208 1 5,412 2 4
12 Gujarati sd 1,914 5,991 27,596 1 1,993 6 43
13 Marathi mr 2,280 5,053 21,758 1 3,185 17 3
14 Gujarati gu 638 6,060 27,390 2 2,813 4 0
15 Nepali ne 395 16,672 62,864 2 3,564 4 25
16 Assamese as 16 258 4,958 1 573 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 54 3,323 1 464 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 231 4,856 1 507 0 0

Stuff[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Derecognition of Wikimedia India". Wikipedia Signpost. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2019-10-22. 
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