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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

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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

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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

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Official Contacts

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WikimediaIndia-l

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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

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List of Mailing Lists specific to India

IRC

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

Social Media

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People

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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

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  • 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

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Wikipedia

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 6,927,973 62,088,462 1,259,698,020 845 48,443,087 121,692 931,211
2 Urdu ur 215,806 1,117,331 6,468,501 8 188,279 264 7,439
3 Hindi hi 163,776 1,352,182 6,314,843 7 838,555 1,035 4,594
4 Tamil ta 170,321 584,649 4,161,897 32 239,113 258 8,993
5 Bengali bn 161,118 1,287,597 7,829,044 14 478,350 1,270 19,593
6 Telugu te 102,147 367,712 4,325,036 11 133,477 176 13,998
7 Malayalam ml 86,420 535,254 4,099,752 14 189,092 258 7,337
8 Marathi mr 98,742 318,793 2,507,389 10 167,230 161 8,567
9 Nepali ne 30,810 110,145 1,259,804 6 69,716 111 1,324
10 Punjabi pa 55,551 181,105 777,200 9 52,084 95 1,840
11 Gujarati gu 30,482 130,829 874,042 3 80,291 68 0
12 Kannada kn 33,191 148,626 1,267,225 4 90,086 272 2,470
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,087 63,438 894,366 2 26,522 24 35
14 Odia or 18,993 82,471 549,687 4 37,947 65 174
15 Maithili mai 14,136 43,689 264,492 5 15,020 31 120
16 Sindhi sd 18,543 64,715 299,896 4 19,538 42 157
17 Sanskrit sa 12,264 78,353 490,323 3 41,920 114 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,777 78,404 774,582 2 36,803 35 54
19 Assamese as 14,440 99,008 456,539 6 43,324 107 1,941
20 Santali sat 11,852 25,587 157,485 3 8,755 42 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,605 9,498 212,674 4 10,728 14 0
22 Divehi dv 3,143 12,413 135,309 2 26,301 23 931
23 Pali pi 2,558 4,672 102,492 1 7,809 14 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,619 14,368 151,177 3 7,171 31 13
25 Kashmiri ks 6,003 15,473 99,599 2 11,862 22 13

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,083,167 4,499,925 14,727,686 21 3,149,781 456 16,208
2 Gujarati gu 63,012 68,914 212,779 2 4,184 15 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,546 74,804 223,230 3 12,575 62 594
4 Bengali bn 34,469 676,215 1,848,628 4 19,873 50 6,275
5 Sanskrit sa 20,062 161,827 406,817 2 9,388 18 64
6 Telugu te 20,345 153,786 456,842 4 6,286 24 559
7 Tamil ta 27,142 591,552 1,763,459 4 15,106 52 41
8 Kannada kn 7,249 94,073 266,279 2 7,760 13 19
9 Marathi mr 5,034 103,132 210,758 2 5,501 13 15
10 Assamese as 3,188 71,416 197,406 3 3,842 33 85
11 Odia or 1,283 11,730 58,144 2 2,767 7 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,690 63,958 184,517 6 2,173 33 212
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

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 8,268,145 9,888,209 83,073,773 75 4,239,435 2,340 16
2 Tamil ta 408,426 421,118 1,998,017 7 23,899 39 195
3 Kannada kn 265,230 269,277 679,535 2 7,558 15 0
4 Hindi hi 184,199 206,788 482,662 2 18,519 24 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,287 139,111 555,532 3 9,879 12 4
6 Odia or 108,634 110,845 228,508 2 3,028 4 1
7 Telugu te 106,933 122,703 970,890 2 6,556 12 681
8 Urdu ur 26,688 33,676 112,157 1 5,457 13 2
9 Punjabi pa 3,303 16,671 35,153 1 2,744 10 0
10 Bengali bn 98,640 138,167 308,376 3 12,304 37 6
11 Sanskrit sa 6,025 263,475 509,231 1 6,918 10 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,227 7,590 29,715 1 2,378 7 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,152 29,246 1 3,737 6 3
14 Gujarati gu 667 6,403 29,141 2 3,289 6 0
15 Nepali ne 433 16,748 63,712 1 4,813 5 23
16 Assamese as 16 257 4,958 1 582 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 53 3,323 1 473 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 230 4,856 1 515 0 0

Stuff

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See also

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References

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