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The Wikimedia India Chapter (Registered Name: Wikimedia Chapter) was 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 was 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

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

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

Official Contacts

• Wikimedia India Portal
• Email: chapterwikimedia.in
• Membership : membershipwikimedia.in

WikimediaIndia-l

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

List of Mailing Lists specific to India

IRC

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

Social Media

• Facebook : fb/WikimediaIndia
• Twitter : @wikimediaindia
• Youtube : official channel

People

Wikimedia India Chapter Executive Committee (Board) :

• Rahul Deshmukh : President (rahuldeshmukh101@wikimedia.in)
• Yohann Varun Thomas : Secretary (yohannvtwikimedia.in )
• Sanket Oswal : Treasurer (sanket_oswalwikimedia.in)
• Santosh Shingare : Member (cherishsantosh@wikimedia.in)
• Viswanathan Prabhakaran : Member (viswaprabha@wikimedia.in)

Write to the EC at wikimedia-in-execlists.wikimedia.org

History and Timeline

• 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

Wikimedia Projects

Wikipedia

Sl No	Language	Wiki	Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Active Users	Images
1	English	en	7,228,988	66,134,648	1,365,980,026	813	54,174,406	252,948	975,074
2	Urdu	ur	673,744	3,017,296	11,797,171	9	218,169	418	10,492
3	Hindi	hi	170,922	1,392,107	6,586,916	8	921,584	982	4,692
4	Tamil	ta	189,679	633,484	4,617,661	31	264,616	558	9,956
5	Bengali	bn	190,719	1,424,461	9,116,384	16	557,513	1,908	21,751
6	Telugu	te	127,923	427,527	4,800,968	11	150,089	412	15,351
7	Malayalam	ml	88,595	555,866	4,399,733	13	208,063	423	7,525
8	Marathi	mr	102,793	334,573	2,699,889	10	183,968	329	2,400
9	Nepali	ne	30,059	115,092	1,364,509	5	79,341	153	1,500
10	Punjabi	pa	59,681	193,249	842,941	10	60,112	113	1,866
11	Gujarati	gu	30,912	136,670	902,825	3	86,874	103	0
12	Kannada	kn	35,617	161,157	1,378,784	4	99,179	157	2,358
13	Bishnupriya Manipuri	bpy	25,097	63,431	895,715	2	28,355	23	35
14	Odia	or	21,014	87,941	591,807	4	42,201	82	170
15	Maithili	mai	14,360	46,134	276,005	4	17,515	49	126
16	Sindhi	sd	22,167	85,242	406,029	4	22,439	37	159
17	Sanskrit	sa	12,532	82,677	499,704	3	46,287	44	443
18	Bhojpuri	bh	9,189	82,198	801,126	2	40,534	43	54
19	Assamese	as	25,283	127,030	629,651	6	50,699	133	2,424
20	Santali	sat	15,844	34,056	193,457	2	11,363	40	0
21	Goan Konkani	gom	3,644	8,930	214,393	3	11,873	14	0
22	Divehi	dv	3,220	12,505	137,608	2	28,537	25	884
23	Pali	pi	304	1,831	103,551	1	8,644	11	1
24	Tulu	tcy	3,883	22,320	249,621	5	9,042	42	14
25	Kashmiri	ks	11,534	27,061	150,134	2	14,495	28	94

Wikisource

Sl No	Language	Wiki	Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Active Users	Images
1	English	en	1,126,167	4,853,978	16,247,643	20	3,305,821	617	16,661
2	Gujarati	gu	65,980	72,267	224,180	2	4,623	15	0
3	Malayalam	ml	20,834	81,639	239,370	3	13,517	49	620
4	Bengali	bn	38,811	614,293	1,994,735	4	22,142	45	5,478
5	Sanskrit	sa	20,429	163,916	418,075	2	10,664	32	64
6	Telugu	te	23,828	212,366	568,300	4	7,207	31	494
7	Tamil	ta	37,422	642,084	1,957,014	4	16,772	65	33
8	Kannada	kn	1,556	112,703	315,045	2	8,604	20	18
9	Marathi	mr	4,796	109,578	236,037	2	6,155	18	15
10	Assamese	as	4,213	92,386	258,013	4	4,487	17	239
11	Odia	or	1,310	12,491	59,632	1	3,055	11	0
12	Punjabi	pa	2,529	72,749	232,845	6	2,718	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

Sl No	Language	Wiki	Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Active Users	Images
1	English	en	9,028,744	11,107,305	92,104,881	76	4,487,495	4,692	19
2	Tamil	ta	408,720	421,472	2,003,770	7	25,693	32	168
3	Kannada	kn	265,553	269,985	692,950	2	8,489	26	0
4	Hindi	hi	184,997	208,000	487,431	2	20,321	25	0
5	Malayalam	ml	131,446	139,196	581,056	2	10,611	9	4
6	Odia	or	108,659	110,932	229,005	2	3,390	7	1
7	Telugu	te	107,743	124,097	979,967	1	7,381	10	310
8	Urdu	ur	26,100	33,828	112,911	1	5,964	9	2
9	Punjabi	pa	15,451	16,778	35,469	1	3,025	5	0
10	Bengali	bn	122,518	169,398	538,443	2	16,183	323	7
11	Sanskrit	sa	6,034	263,492	509,420	1	7,683	5	4
12	Gujarati	sd	2,358	9,024	31,676	1	2,636	9	38
13	Marathi	mr	2,707	6,159	29,388	1	4,034	7	3
14	Gujarati	gu	684	6,434	29,284	2	3,565	5	0
15	Nepali	ne	600	17,919	66,634	2	5,209	9	23
16	Assamese	as	16	257	4,961	1	640	1	0
17	Pali	pi	1	55	3,326	1	512	1	0
18	Bhojpuri	bh	0	230	4,859	1	553	1	0

Stuff

• Draft MoA
• Draft version of MoA submitted to Chapters Committee for approval
• Final version of MoA submitted to Chapters Committee for ratification
• Things to do for the formation of India chapter
• Projects
• Languages

See also

• Category:Wikimedia India
• Promoting the South Asian languages projects
• Wikimedia chapters
• Chapters committee
• Local chapter FAQ
• Interorganizational relations among chapters; a summary of a long discussion on IRC.
• List of Indic Wikipedians who have done more than 1000 edits
• new:विकिपिडिया:देवनागरी टेम्प्लेट परियोजना
• Test wikis of languages of India