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Wikimedia India

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 memberEdit

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

DonationsEdit

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 channelsEdit

Official ContactsEdit

WikimediaIndia-lEdit

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/noticeboardsEdit

List of Mailing Lists specific to India

IRCEdit

To join the discussion on IRC, join us in #wikimedia-in

Social MediaEdit


PeopleEdit

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 TimelineEdit

  • 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 ProjectsEdit

WikipediaEdit

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 6,630,245 57,753,401 1,139,806,928 910 45,184,742 128,880 897,942
2 Urdu ur 187,575 1,029,874 5,321,684 11 159,791 301 13,830
3 Hindi hi 155,708 1,236,654 5,784,271 6 747,090 1,403 3,681
4 Tamil ta 152,699 483,275 3,665,642 31 216,259 327 7,979
5 Bengali bn 135,796 1,150,758 6,539,549 13 411,726 1,552 16,505
6 Telugu te 81,474 320,622 3,816,115 14 119,536 198 14,677
7 Malayalam ml 83,225 506,366 3,815,311 15 169,400 315 7,056
8 Marathi mr 90,597 300,365 2,245,036 10 151,728 302 19,141
9 Nepali ne 31,317 105,366 1,123,811 6 61,566 112 1,299
10 Punjabi pa 42,749 147,570 649,612 9 44,631 121 1,833
11 Gujarati gu 30,088 121,826 839,708 3 72,649 78 0
12 Kannada kn 29,761 133,618 1,154,019 4 80,003 161 2,307
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,086 63,274 890,743 2 24,168 12 45
14 Odia or 16,534 73,836 477,510 6 32,796 58 171
15 Maithili mai 13,730 40,125 231,489 5 12,549 32 114
16 Sindhi sd 15,346 56,466 242,443 4 16,719 36 145
17 Sanskrit sa 11,967 72,164 474,372 4 37,004 38 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,263 71,735 737,205 2 31,648 52 53
19 Assamese as 11,256 76,823 348,426 5 36,683 102 1,752
20 Santali sat 8,081 18,522 111,022 3 6,472 34 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,571 9,261 207,505 4 9,137 14 0
22 Divehi dv 3,024 11,442 130,631 4 24,101 21 932
23 Pali pi 2,546 4,649 101,900 2 6,917 8 1
24 Tulu tcy 1,832 9,755 107,943 3 5,309 25 9
25 Kashmiri ks 2,722 10,261 73,389 2 9,971 15 10

WikisourceEdit

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 988,961 3,999,112 13,066,940 22 3,071,122 380 18,750
2 Gujarati gu 55,518 60,794 193,171 2 3,694 14 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,223 72,378 217,049 4 11,735 8 605
4 Bengali bn 24,514 748,321 1,725,806 4 17,528 23 8,432
5 Sanskrit sa 19,276 136,092 369,049 3 8,218 15 64
6 Telugu te 17,967 130,132 408,404 6 5,614 19 508
7 Tamil ta 20,794 455,139 1,488,154 4 12,678 143 42
8 Kannada kn 7,295 90,741 238,872 2 7,043 7 6
9 Marathi mr 4,063 75,952 169,321 2 4,770 15 15
10 Assamese as 2,853 63,487 172,467 2 3,169 16 11
11 Odia or 1,212 11,266 54,825 1 2,360 4 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,693 54,923 149,403 5 1,730 11 204
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.

WiktionaryEdit

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 7,350,856 8,579,556 71,624,937 109 4,045,494 2,205 22
2 Tamil ta 406,581 418,970 1,985,603 7 21,486 46 243
3 Kannada kn 264,328 268,105 670,916 1 6,736 12 0
4 Hindi hi 184,154 206,214 476,838 1 15,701 26 6
5 Malayalam ml 131,133 138,827 548,682 4 8,890 11 4
6 Odia or 108,633 110,811 195,282 2 2,666 4 1
7 Gujarati te 106,433 122,400 966,436 4 5,796 10 931
8 Urdu ur 26,631 33,505 111,394 2 4,837 6 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,450 16,570 34,882 1 2,415 2 0
10 Bengali bn 40,198 61,704 181,393 3 9,294 20 9
11 Sanskrit sa 6,022 263,444 508,734 1 6,090 12 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,128 6,722 28,546 1 2,131 5 43
13 Marathi mr 2,715 6,049 28,615 2 3,425 6 3
14 Gujarati gu 688 6,244 28,441 2 2,992 6 0
15 Nepali ne 432 16,726 63,483 1 4,318 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

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See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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