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Mailing list: WikimediaIndia-l
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[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 6,635,513 57,838,067 1,142,108,709 910 45,264,421 129,868 899,218
2 Urdu ur 188,033 1,031,339 5,330,051 11 160,406 296 13,976
3 Hindi hi 155,915 1,239,886 5,795,730 6 749,608 1,474 3,725
4 Tamil ta 153,108 484,858 3,673,737 29 217,002 327 8,012
5 Bengali bn 136,535 1,158,249 6,565,524 13 413,594 1,491 16,520
6 Telugu te 81,703 321,309 3,826,386 14 119,867 189 14,699
7 Malayalam ml 83,294 507,011 3,820,586 15 169,773 279 7,057
8 Marathi mr 91,003 301,515 2,250,999 10 152,110 308 19,104
9 Nepali ne 31,396 105,625 1,125,423 6 61,768 112 1,300
10 Punjabi pa 43,684 149,976 655,702 9 44,807 122 1,843
11 Gujarati gu 30,094 122,064 840,368 3 72,850 77 0
12 Kannada kn 29,823 133,924 1,157,709 4 80,232 179 2,308
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,088 63,278 890,779 2 24,217 14 45
14 Odia or 16,569 73,949 478,050 6 32,908 63 171
15 Maithili mai 13,728 40,214 232,610 5 12,621 38 114
16 Sindhi sd 15,349 56,479 242,530 4 16,795 29 145
17 Sanskrit sa 11,969 72,274 474,581 3 37,100 44 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,286 71,963 740,860 2 31,801 59 53
19 Assamese as 11,445 77,423 350,773 5 36,826 108 1,756
20 Santali sat 8,153 18,626 111,635 3 6,516 31 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,570 9,263 207,522 4 9,167 18 0
22 Divehi dv 3,024 11,439 130,660 4 24,151 25 932
23 Pali pi 2,547 4,654 101,921 2 6,945 8 1
24 Tulu tcy 1,848 9,825 108,439 3 5,332 20 9
25 Kashmiri ks 2,749 10,316 73,876 2 10,014 19 10

Wikisource[edit]

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 990,968 4,007,888 13,096,915 22 3,072,838 372 18,759
2 Gujarati gu 55,721 61,005 193,648 2 3,702 10 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,227 72,385 217,083 4 11,752 8 605
4 Bengali bn 24,866 748,311 1,726,811 4 17,582 24 8,267
5 Sanskrit sa 19,311 136,189 369,695 2 8,238 15 64
6 Telugu te 18,040 130,845 409,807 5 5,626 15 514
7 Tamil ta 20,807 455,453 1,491,890 4 12,791 104 42
8 Kannada kn 7,312 90,770 239,001 2 7,053 6 6
9 Marathi mr 4,077 77,124 170,560 2 4,782 14 15
10 Assamese as 2,860 63,708 172,790 2 3,179 17 11
11 Odia or 1,213 11,314 54,953 1 2,367 5 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,723 54,952 149,553 5 1,734 9 204
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 7,366,867 8,599,476 72,305,831 109 4,050,538 2,216 22
2 Tamil ta 406,534 418,923 1,985,836 7 21,536 37 243
3 Kannada kn 264,339 268,106 670,972 1 6,755 12 0
4 Hindi hi 184,155 206,221 476,892 1 15,760 25 6
5 Malayalam ml 131,135 138,830 548,715 4 8,901 10 4
6 Odia or 108,633 110,812 216,563 2 2,670 9 1
7 Gujarati te 106,433 122,401 966,455 3 5,808 10 931
8 Urdu ur 26,577 33,506 111,406 2 4,851 7 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,450 16,570 34,884 1 2,420 3 0
10 Bengali bn 40,198 61,711 181,490 3 9,341 21 9
11 Sanskrit sa 6,022 263,445 508,741 1 6,110 8 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,128 6,725 28,551 1 2,133 6 43
13 Marathi mr 2,715 6,049 28,618 2 3,428 7 3
14 Gujarati gu 688 6,244 28,445 2 2,995 5 0
15 Nepali ne 432 16,726 63,489 1 4,331 9 25
16 Assamese as 16 258 4,958 1 575 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 54 3,323 1 466 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 231 4,856 1 509 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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