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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 6,744,507 59,374,054 1,180,190,397 879 46,467,998 121,965 911,810
2 Urdu ur 197,310 1,056,076 5,549,297 10 171,144 299 14,260
3 Hindi hi 159,782 1,287,090 5,987,966 7 787,967 1,139 4,022
4 Tamil ta 159,613 504,236 3,816,795 35 225,972 303 8,178
5 Bengali bn 143,374 1,197,646 7,006,495 14 437,463 962 17,025
6 Telugu te 88,230 337,607 3,978,388 12 124,838 186 14,312
7 Malayalam ml 84,820 516,117 3,899,955 15 176,002 246 7,134
8 Marathi mr 93,798 303,800 2,342,958 10 158,455 180 11,713
9 Nepali ne 32,629 109,108 1,176,373 7 64,915 102 1,300
10 Punjabi pa 51,485 166,236 717,903 10 47,711 136 1,753
11 Gujarati gu 30,312 125,817 855,691 3 76,005 63 0
12 Kannada kn 30,729 137,384 1,190,642 4 84,029 315 2,334
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,087 63,287 892,561 2 25,021 14 45
14 Odia or 17,395 77,583 511,521 6 34,737 59 185
15 Maithili mai 13,946 41,723 252,711 4 13,618 62 119
16 Sindhi sd 15,490 57,600 247,162 4 17,790 31 149
17 Sanskrit sa 12,097 74,497 482,352 3 38,812 79 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,596 75,019 764,293 2 33,935 56 54
19 Assamese as 12,270 89,609 391,290 6 39,325 104 1,828
20 Santali sat 9,966 21,779 131,233 3 7,324 41 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,589 9,435 212,177 4 10,003 15 0
22 Divehi dv 3,041 11,491 131,047 4 24,942 19 932
23 Pali pi 2,549 4,658 102,064 2 7,281 5 1
24 Tulu tcy 1,910 10,696 116,508 3 5,764 24 12
25 Kashmiri ks 4,559 13,421 83,663 2 10,703 29 12

Wikisource[edit]

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,018,070 4,162,104 13,592,130 22 3,099,781 382 16,232
2 Gujarati gu 59,341 64,896 204,391 2 3,892 12 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,449 72,790 218,187 4 12,093 11 605
4 Bengali bn 31,542 738,902 1,789,825 4 18,487 22 7,126
5 Sanskrit sa 19,489 160,265 399,500 2 8,655 54 64
6 Telugu te 18,772 139,941 425,451 4 5,880 12 541
7 Tamil ta 21,735 464,305 1,530,012 4 13,865 49 42
8 Kannada kn 7,349 91,290 243,148 3 7,325 15 6
9 Marathi mr 4,445 96,219 196,303 2 5,083 26 15
10 Assamese as 3,104 66,331 181,378 2 3,442 18 78
11 Odia or 1,301 11,560 55,935 1 2,507 8 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,434 57,778 159,929 6 1,915 14 204
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 7,610,654 8,952,816 76,616,585 83 4,124,278 2,198 21
2 Tamil ta 408,064 420,710 1,993,756 7 22,546 43 239
3 Kannada kn 264,386 268,391 674,057 2 7,090 16 0
4 Hindi hi 184,193 206,790 480,589 1 16,849 26 6
5 Malayalam ml 131,265 139,023 554,671 4 9,284 12 4
6 Odia or 108,635 110,834 228,271 2 2,815 8 1
7 Gujarati te 106,517 122,500 967,190 2 6,081 12 931
8 Urdu ur 26,625 33,569 111,656 2 5,107 7 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,451 16,576 34,918 1 2,549 5 0
10 Bengali bn 47,735 70,757 199,154 3 10,048 26 8
11 Sanskrit sa 6,025 263,452 508,965 1 6,454 7 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,171 6,999 28,944 1 2,233 5 39
13 Marathi mr 2,714 6,170 29,139 2 3,558 5 3
14 Gujarati gu 692 6,251 28,476 2 3,106 3 0
15 Nepali ne 432 16,733 63,566 1 4,566 4 23
16 Assamese as 16 258 4,958 1 577 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 54 3,323 1 468 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 231 4,856 1 511 0 0

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

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