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Mailing list: WikimediaIndia-l
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 6,860,300 61,125,276 1,233,089,076 855 47,750,364 114,194 921,334
2 Urdu ur 208,566 1,102,237 6,295,646 8 182,752 255 12,638
3 Hindi hi 163,005 1,333,356 6,213,786 7 822,385 961 4,473
4 Tamil ta 166,784 567,895 4,046,490 32 235,034 276 8,444
5 Bengali bn 155,779 1,260,033 7,499,957 14 463,193 850 19,038
6 Telugu te 98,263 360,272 4,237,607 11 130,729 186 14,236
7 Malayalam ml 85,811 525,757 4,013,637 14 182,349 263 7,241
8 Marathi mr 97,309 314,874 2,454,169 10 164,325 176 10,398
9 Nepali ne 31,274 109,779 1,232,357 7 68,155 104 1,312
10 Punjabi pa 54,727 177,485 762,616 10 50,718 105 1,862
11 Gujarati gu 30,423 129,257 868,483 3 78,939 72 0
12 Kannada kn 32,500 141,149 1,234,007 4 87,913 244 2,451
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,088 63,378 893,975 2 26,042 18 41
14 Odia or 18,416 81,082 538,565 6 37,042 46 175
15 Maithili mai 14,114 43,154 262,755 5 14,578 24 120
16 Sindhi sd 17,884 61,841 281,363 4 18,901 38 154
17 Sanskrit sa 12,204 76,856 487,323 3 40,742 101 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,726 77,401 772,239 2 35,950 41 54
19 Assamese as 13,552 95,485 427,019 6 41,960 85 1,916
20 Santali sat 11,396 24,238 148,567 3 8,190 38 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,595 9,480 212,457 4 10,496 21 0
22 Divehi dv 3,109 12,171 134,379 4 25,854 25 931
23 Pali pi 2,557 4,676 102,315 1 7,620 9 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,343 12,858 135,531 3 6,708 29 13
25 Kashmiri ks 5,353 14,681 92,809 2 11,477 20 13

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,060,138 4,381,519 14,370,898 23 3,135,763 393 16,154
2 Gujarati gu 62,675 68,451 211,009 2 4,076 7 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,484 72,965 218,792 3 12,371 12 605
4 Bengali bn 33,524 728,418 1,827,593 4 19,369 46 6,407
5 Sanskrit sa 20,042 161,227 403,984 2 9,127 15 64
6 Telugu te 19,567 146,057 439,858 4 6,157 12 546
7 Tamil ta 24,393 529,076 1,639,559 4 14,626 110 42
8 Kannada kn 7,347 91,761 251,217 2 7,602 13 6
9 Marathi mr 4,757 101,853 208,514 2 5,371 16 15
10 Assamese as 3,147 69,290 188,766 2 3,683 19 78
11 Odia or 1,287 11,624 56,768 1 2,627 3 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,609 61,130 172,125 6 2,086 18 212
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 8,107,422 9,662,575 80,897,311 80 4,206,603 2,244 14
2 Tamil ta 408,415 421,117 1,996,749 7 23,475 37 239
3 Kannada kn 264,772 268,796 676,312 1 7,416 15 0
4 Hindi hi 184,187 206,690 481,847 2 18,038 27 6
5 Malayalam ml 131,298 139,101 555,321 3 9,719 17 4
6 Odia or 108,635 110,847 228,449 2 2,957 4 1
7 Telugu te 106,609 122,623 967,757 2 6,385 10 931
8 Urdu ur 26,667 33,619 111,944 1 5,354 10 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,450 16,597 34,992 1 2,685 7 0
10 Bengali bn 96,256 122,769 278,467 3 11,681 434 6
11 Sanskrit sa 6,025 263,433 509,132 1 6,772 4 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,191 7,268 29,298 1 2,329 5 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,155 29,218 1 3,679 3 3
14 Gujarati gu 665 6,403 29,084 1 3,229 5 0
15 Nepali ne 432 16,742 63,653 1 4,727 7 23
16 Assamese as 16 257 4,958 1 579 1 0
17 Pali pi 1 53 3,323 1 470 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 230 4,856 1 512 1 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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