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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

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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(_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

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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 6,929,381 62,115,890 1,260,267,798 847 48,453,802 120,097 931,291
2 Urdu ur 215,901 1,117,667 6,471,467 8 188,392 264 7,442
3 Hindi hi 163,785 1,352,648 6,316,177 7 838,914 1,076 4,596
4 Tamil ta 170,384 584,846 4,164,279 32 239,195 264 9,001
5 Bengali bn 161,186 1,288,270 7,835,832 14 478,622 1,265 19,609
6 Telugu te 102,211 367,827 4,326,398 11 133,521 182 13,998
7 Malayalam ml 86,437 535,344 4,100,435 14 189,139 256 7,339
8 Marathi mr 98,763 318,911 2,508,167 10 167,294 162 8,567
9 Nepali ne 30,810 110,149 1,259,994 6 69,742 114 1,324
10 Punjabi pa 55,555 181,152 777,395 9 52,119 95 1,840
11 Gujarati gu 30,483 130,858 874,118 3 80,313 67 0
12 Kannada kn 33,202 148,661 1,267,412 4 90,124 253 2,474
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,087 63,441 894,374 2 26,531 24 35
14 Odia or 19,020 82,529 549,954 4 37,968 66 174
15 Maithili mai 14,136 43,703 264,534 5 15,032 29 120
16 Sindhi sd 18,551 64,727 300,064 4 19,545 41 157
17 Sanskrit sa 12,264 78,374 490,421 3 41,937 136 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,923 78,624 774,917 2 36,818 36 54
19 Assamese as 14,451 99,057 457,420 6 43,350 101 1,941
20 Santali sat 11,859 25,603 157,561 3 8,760 44 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,605 9,498 212,676 4 10,735 13 0
22 Divehi dv 3,143 12,413 135,312 2 26,310 22 931
23 Pali pi 2,558 4,673 102,494 1 7,814 15 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,620 14,387 151,784 3 7,173 28 13
25 Kashmiri ks 6,021 15,495 99,775 2 11,871 22 13

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,083,589 4,501,982 14,732,624 21 3,150,029 467 16,208
2 Gujarati gu 63,012 68,918 212,812 2 4,187 14 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,546 74,915 223,478 3 12,579 58 594
4 Bengali bn 34,496 675,696 1,849,049 4 19,881 50 6,268
5 Sanskrit sa 20,062 161,828 406,869 2 9,396 67 64
6 Telugu te 20,351 153,900 457,049 4 6,289 23 559
7 Tamil ta 27,282 591,880 1,764,288 4 15,108 50 41
8 Kannada kn 7,249 94,111 266,324 2 7,761 11 19
9 Marathi mr 5,022 103,120 210,929 2 5,502 11 15
10 Assamese as 3,191 71,431 197,970 3 3,844 33 86
11 Odia or 1,283 11,733 58,147 2 2,768 7 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,691 64,013 184,824 6 2,174 32 212
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 8,271,683 9,893,637 83,096,015 75 4,240,042 2,334 16
2 Tamil ta 408,429 421,122 1,998,036 7 23,905 34 195
3 Kannada kn 265,243 269,290 679,666 2 7,560 11 0
4 Hindi hi 184,199 206,788 482,675 2 18,531 24 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,287 139,111 555,533 3 9,882 10 4
6 Odia or 108,634 110,845 228,508 2 3,030 2 1
7 Telugu te 106,933 122,703 970,897 2 6,560 10 681
8 Urdu ur 26,690 33,678 112,161 1 5,458 10 2
9 Punjabi pa 3,303 16,671 35,153 1 2,745 8 0
10 Bengali bn 98,663 138,189 308,491 3 12,312 38 6
11 Sanskrit sa 6,025 263,475 509,231 1 6,921 8 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,241 7,631 29,767 1 2,380 4 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,153 29,247 1 3,740 4 3
14 Gujarati gu 667 6,403 29,141 2 3,292 3 0
15 Nepali ne 433 16,749 63,713 1 4,814 3 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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