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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 6,712,189 58,960,464 1,170,067,949 887 46,129,233 119,297 905,528
2 Urdu ur 194,222 1,048,552 5,482,846 10 168,199 319 14,224
3 Hindi hi 158,829 1,275,745 5,941,824 7 778,334 1,249 3,946
4 Tamil ta 156,981 497,331 3,778,159 35 223,396 256 8,076
5 Bengali bn 141,227 1,189,417 6,912,218 14 431,143 1,048 16,780
6 Telugu te 86,203 332,356 3,927,629 12 123,560 210 14,234
7 Malayalam ml 84,458 513,331 3,878,830 15 174,379 266 7,129
8 Marathi mr 93,309 300,493 2,320,248 10 156,835 199 11,714
9 Nepali ne 32,105 107,877 1,154,247 7 64,028 84 1,295
10 Punjabi pa 51,145 163,952 706,318 10 46,923 104 1,715
11 Gujarati gu 30,260 124,931 852,704 3 75,237 63 0
12 Kannada kn 30,372 135,759 1,177,107 4 82,793 147 2,320
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,086 63,281 892,438 2 24,765 25 45
14 Odia or 17,195 76,671 496,199 6 34,227 63 176
15 Maithili mai 13,821 41,114 238,777 4 13,335 32 117
16 Sindhi sd 15,464 57,270 244,652 4 17,494 33 149
17 Sanskrit sa 12,081 73,979 478,936 3 38,338 39 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,526 74,304 760,539 2 33,392 53 54
19 Assamese as 12,071 88,189 377,329 4 38,673 118 1,803
20 Santali sat 9,304 20,942 122,011 3 7,064 40 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,580 9,415 211,309 4 9,870 17 0
22 Divehi dv 3,030 11,476 130,925 4 24,727 28 932
23 Pali pi 2,548 4,656 102,030 2 7,188 8 1
24 Tulu tcy 1,901 10,326 115,188 3 5,632 31 9
25 Kashmiri ks 4,529 13,280 82,831 2 10,483 20 12

Wikisource Edit

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,010,009 4,112,452 13,424,673 22 3,092,285 418 16,557
2 Gujarati gu 58,371 63,830 201,455 2 3,843 14 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,447 72,780 218,046 4 12,009 13 605
4 Bengali bn 31,215 743,097 1,772,141 4 18,234 27 7,324
5 Sanskrit sa 19,479 160,193 398,564 2 8,515 14 64
6 Telugu te 18,756 139,236 424,096 4 5,817 17 538
7 Tamil ta 21,487 461,835 1,519,423 4 13,670 65 42
8 Kannada kn 7,346 91,157 242,823 3 7,251 6 6
9 Marathi mr 4,335 93,019 191,694 2 4,989 19 15
10 Assamese as 3,024 65,924 180,153 2 3,384 25 8
11 Odia or 1,298 11,552 55,836 1 2,471 5 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,429 57,711 159,240 6 1,879 29 204
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 7,541,414 8,850,972 76,059,765 84 4,104,609 2,147 22
2 Tamil ta 407,824 420,421 1,992,504 7 22,328 38 239
3 Kannada kn 264,374 268,338 673,377 2 6,985 12 0
4 Hindi hi 184,193 206,784 480,233 1 16,519 25 6
5 Malayalam ml 131,255 138,985 554,479 4 9,185 13 4
6 Odia or 108,634 110,827 228,236 2 2,780 3 1
7 Gujarati te 106,485 122,466 967,066 2 6,013 12 931
8 Urdu ur 26,589 33,533 111,560 2 5,054 9 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,450 16,575 34,912 1 2,521 3 0
10 Bengali bn 40,487 62,824 189,108 3 9,858 25 8
11 Sanskrit sa 6,025 263,451 508,820 1 6,360 4 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,171 6,796 28,692 1 2,216 4 39
13 Marathi mr 2,715 6,067 28,685 2 3,526 4 3
14 Gujarati gu 690 6,248 28,464 2 3,078 3 0
15 Nepali ne 432 16,731 63,551 1 4,512 5 23
16 Assamese as 16 258 4,958 1 576 1 0
17 Pali pi 1 54 3,323 1 467 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 231 4,856 1 510 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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