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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 wikimedia.in )
  • Sanket Oswal  : Treasurer (sanket_oswal wikimedia.in)
  • Santosh Shingare  : Member (cherishsantosh@wikimedia.in)
  • Viswanathan Prabhakaran  : Member (viswaprabha@wikimedia.in)
Write to the EC at wikimedia-in-exec 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 6,819,307 60,577,081 1,217,108,205 858 47,340,842 123,503 916,641
2 Urdu ur 205,470 1,092,749 6,197,887 8 178,913 257 14,208
3 Hindi hi 161,510 1,316,935 6,098,565 7 811,084 945 4,398
4 Tamil ta 165,201 520,480 3,935,371 32 232,256 272 8,246
5 Bengali bn 152,147 1,239,506 7,349,875 14 454,935 932 18,352
6 Telugu te 94,732 353,809 4,149,940 11 128,348 228 14,560
7 Malayalam ml 85,622 522,830 3,991,332 14 180,114 233 7,232
8 Marathi mr 96,183 312,176 2,407,679 10 162,433 151 11,292
9 Nepali ne 32,965 111,161 1,208,459 7 67,042 111 1,303
10 Punjabi pa 54,204 175,010 751,654 10 49,688 101 1,851
11 Gujarati gu 30,394 128,130 863,931 3 77,961 71 0
12 Kannada kn 31,896 140,042 1,219,824 4 86,633 177 2,416
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,087 63,372 893,830 2 25,734 16 41
14 Odia or 18,015 79,525 530,855 6 36,392 50 185
15 Maithili mai 14,103 42,777 261,217 5 14,236 30 120
16 Sindhi sd 17,003 59,817 267,868 4 18,519 24 150
17 Sanskrit sa 12,179 75,953 485,452 3 40,013 40 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,673 76,552 767,802 2 35,242 41 54
19 Assamese as 13,365 94,106 420,089 6 41,131 150 1,889
20 Santali sat 11,123 23,624 144,579 3 7,896 30 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,593 9,473 212,375 4 10,333 13 0
22 Divehi dv 3,048 11,610 132,060 3 25,520 17 932
23 Pali pi 2,554 4,662 102,249 1 7,508 8 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,163 11,722 124,430 3 6,167 24 12
25 Kashmiri ks 5,049 14,222 88,950 2 11,206 27 13

Wikisource edit

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,041,120 4,304,120 14,151,327 23 3,124,229 402 16,348
2 Gujarati gu 62,393 68,083 209,988 2 4,009 9 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,482 72,953 218,689 3 12,275 8 605
4 Bengali bn 32,737 729,948 1,812,054 4 19,056 26 6,421
5 Sanskrit sa 19,571 160,723 402,104 2 8,973 20 64
6 Telugu te 19,142 143,475 434,034 4 6,026 8 545
7 Tamil ta 23,525 469,014 1,548,839 4 14,237 27 42
8 Kannada kn 7,355 91,392 244,350 2 7,485 13 6
9 Marathi mr 4,664 100,639 206,277 2 5,292 9 15
10 Assamese as 3,131 67,457 185,547 1 3,610 20 78
11 Odia or 1,241 11,572 56,576 1 2,592 5 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,587 59,227 165,804 6 2,026 18 204
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 8,013,206 9,445,285 79,054,597 81 4,180,377 2,313 10
2 Tamil ta 408,313 420,998 1,995,799 7 23,224 32 239
3 Kannada kn 264,490 268,508 675,056 2 7,327 12 0
4 Hindi hi 184,184 206,671 481,409 2 17,684 17 6
5 Malayalam ml 131,284 139,065 555,087 3 9,570 10 4
6 Odia or 108,635 110,843 228,303 2 2,913 2 1
7 Telugu te 106,563 122,555 967,554 2 6,281 9 931
8 Urdu ur 26,649 33,599 111,838 1 5,268 9 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,450 16,594 34,971 1 2,640 1 0
10 Bengali bn 85,619 112,803 244,257 3 10,624 20 8
11 Sanskrit sa 6,025 263,433 509,114 1 6,670 2 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,190 7,143 29,148 1 2,296 2 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,154 29,203 1 3,648 2 3
14 Gujarati gu 659 6,392 29,006 1 3,193 2 0
15 Nepali ne 432 16,737 63,619 1 4,676 3 23
16 Assamese as 16 257 4,958 1 578 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 53 3,323 1 469 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 230 4,856 1 512 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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