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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 6,960,792 62,639,372 1,273,346,413 847 48,779,590 127,765 933,079
2 Urdu ur 218,285 1,137,700 6,803,392 8 191,102 282 7,560
3 Hindi hi 165,004 1,362,971 6,356,566 7 846,494 825 4,627
4 Tamil ta 172,089 589,709 4,206,876 32 241,445 282 9,085
5 Bengali bn 163,759 1,302,918 8,001,860 15 485,473 1,454 19,821
6 Telugu te 106,135 374,183 4,377,124 11 135,069 288 14,148
7 Malayalam ml 86,610 540,097 4,254,893 14 190,558 255 7,368
8 Marathi mr 99,331 321,068 2,535,218 10 168,761 164 7,953
9 Nepali ne 29,852 110,476 1,271,754 5 70,619 107 1,340
10 Punjabi pa 56,475 183,071 789,062 10 52,835 94 1,845
11 Gujarati gu 30,504 131,625 880,375 3 80,952 64 0
12 Kannada kn 33,450 154,279 1,291,189 4 90,948 138 2,343
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,086 63,448 894,471 2 26,748 15 35
14 Odia or 19,301 83,139 555,373 4 38,404 48 170
15 Maithili mai 14,146 43,954 265,680 5 15,268 27 122
16 Sindhi sd 18,798 65,572 307,305 4 19,841 40 157
17 Sanskrit sa 12,272 78,913 491,404 3 42,402 40 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,770 78,884 776,765 2 37,266 41 54
19 Assamese as 16,345 104,261 483,896 6 44,052 122 2,104
20 Santali sat 12,822 27,189 165,646 3 9,006 39 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,608 9,511 212,793 4 10,874 13 0
22 Divehi dv 3,119 12,433 135,474 2 26,556 24 931
23 Pali pi 2,558 4,677 102,540 1 7,902 9 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,658 14,757 162,031 3 7,306 28 13
25 Kashmiri ks 6,362 16,285 103,738 2 12,096 29 13

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,085,553 4,561,950 14,896,118 22 3,158,167 470 16,518
2 Gujarati gu 63,546 69,522 214,002 2 4,250 11 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,560 75,979 225,525 3 12,723 46 598
4 Bengali bn 34,853 656,218 1,861,977 4 20,103 49 6,166
5 Sanskrit sa 20,068 161,851 407,562 2 9,509 14 64
6 Telugu te 20,473 156,580 463,413 4 6,361 25 561
7 Tamil ta 27,671 598,087 1,785,065 4 15,269 121 41
8 Kannada kn 7,249 94,146 266,528 2 7,835 5 19
9 Marathi mr 5,118 104,881 216,369 2 5,573 16 15
10 Assamese as 2,851 71,577 200,905 3 3,933 14 86
11 Odia or 1,283 11,799 58,233 2 2,805 5 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,712 64,470 188,286 6 2,219 21 212
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 8,351,874 10,007,076 84,031,772 75 4,257,930 2,396 16
2 Tamil ta 408,508 421,178 1,998,883 7 24,115 40 168
3 Kannada kn 265,395 269,739 682,138 2 7,713 21 0
4 Hindi hi 184,211 206,878 483,116 2 18,747 18 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,295 139,133 555,672 3 9,993 16 4
6 Odia or 108,634 110,859 228,573 2 3,072 4 1
7 Telugu te 106,956 122,403 971,769 2 6,657 14 346
8 Urdu ur 26,705 33,688 112,220 1 5,534 8 2
9 Punjabi pa 3,305 16,675 35,164 1 2,784 4 0
10 Bengali bn 98,494 138,375 309,606 3 12,573 32 6
11 Sanskrit sa 6,026 263,481 509,265 1 7,006 5 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,262 7,931 30,144 1 2,417 5 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,156 29,257 1 3,784 3 3
14 Gujarati gu 667 6,407 29,166 2 3,329 8 0
15 Nepali ne 433 16,751 63,749 1 4,871 6 23
16 Assamese as 16 258 4,959 1 582 1 0
17 Pali pi 1 54 3,324 1 473 1 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 231 4,857 1 515 1 0

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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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