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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(_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[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 6,830,079 60,791,358 1,222,020,212 855 47,484,646 119,604 918,118
2 Urdu ur 206,667 1,097,668 6,233,081 8 180,196 270 14,391
3 Hindi hi 161,698 1,321,226 6,114,223 7 814,439 843 4,411
4 Tamil ta 165,699 541,821 3,978,751 32 233,141 255 8,271
5 Bengali bn 153,375 1,244,398 7,400,124 14 457,903 1,008 18,496
6 Telugu te 95,836 356,677 4,177,071 11 129,031 190 14,621
7 Malayalam ml 85,717 523,794 3,997,392 14 180,789 234 7,238
8 Marathi mr 96,672 313,043 2,420,509 10 163,043 163 10,992
9 Nepali ne 31,938 110,346 1,219,411 7 67,408 97 1,306
10 Punjabi pa 54,300 175,664 755,048 10 50,038 101 1,860
11 Gujarati gu 30,400 128,449 865,017 3 78,252 56 0
12 Kannada kn 32,087 139,927 1,223,722 4 87,004 132 2,426
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,087 63,373 893,888 2 25,840 18 41
14 Odia or 18,145 79,820 532,857 6 36,654 42 175
15 Maithili mai 14,106 42,897 261,539 5 14,351 30 120
16 Sindhi sd 17,393 60,201 271,233 4 18,659 38 150
17 Sanskrit sa 12,186 76,214 486,121 3 40,230 34 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,685 76,796 768,467 2 35,455 36 54
19 Assamese as 13,393 94,439 421,785 6 41,378 87 1,891
20 Santali sat 11,187 23,749 145,757 3 7,985 21 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,593 9,473 212,396 4 10,378 9 0
22 Divehi dv 3,066 11,702 132,586 3 25,646 23 932
23 Pali pi 2,555 4,663 102,266 1 7,548 8 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,167 11,859 127,447 3 6,232 25 12
25 Kashmiri ks 5,167 14,371 90,236 2 11,283 17 13

Wikisource[edit]

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,047,951 4,332,343 14,238,497 23 3,128,288 404 16,402
2 Gujarati gu 62,535 68,264 210,384 2 4,039 12 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,482 72,958 218,727 3 12,301 9 605
4 Bengali bn 33,124 727,919 1,819,663 4 19,149 27 6,366
5 Sanskrit sa 19,793 160,958 402,759 2 9,010 13 64
6 Telugu te 19,161 143,918 434,971 4 6,074 30 545
7 Tamil ta 23,843 473,645 1,561,645 4 14,291 36 42
8 Kannada kn 7,356 91,572 246,418 2 7,556 59 6
9 Marathi mr 4,686 101,067 206,862 2 5,319 17 15
10 Assamese as 3,134 67,533 185,815 1 3,629 12 78
11 Odia or 1,241 11,572 56,622 1 2,601 3 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,590 59,772 167,653 6 2,046 17 204
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 8,040,937 9,497,275 79,455,036 80 4,189,608 2,370 14
2 Tamil ta 408,387 421,081 1,996,232 7 23,313 32 239
3 Kannada kn 264,590 268,607 675,437 2 7,359 12 0
4 Hindi hi 184,186 206,674 481,536 1 17,805 25 6
5 Malayalam ml 131,292 139,081 555,156 3 9,623 15 4
6 Odia or 108,635 110,843 228,313 2 2,924 7 1
7 Telugu te 106,602 122,603 967,640 2 6,303 7 931
8 Urdu ur 26,660 33,610 111,880 1 5,295 8 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,449 16,594 34,977 1 2,654 6 0
10 Bengali bn 85,669 112,849 244,451 3 10,709 18 8
11 Sanskrit sa 6,025 263,433 509,119 1 6,700 5 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,191 7,144 29,156 1 2,307 6 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,154 29,206 1 3,656 4 3
14 Gujarati gu 659 6,392 29,012 1 3,208 5 0
15 Nepali ne 432 16,737 63,625 1 4,699 5 23
16 Assamese as 16 257 4,958 1 578 1 0
17 Pali pi 1 53 3,323 1 469 1 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 230 4,856 1 512 1 0

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

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