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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

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

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


People

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

  • 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][2]

Wikimedia Projects

Wikipedia

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 7,228,368 66,129,656 1,365,803,506 813 54,161,958 252,754 974,897
2 Urdu ur 673,662 3,016,189 11,792,391 9 218,099 417 10,487
3 Hindi hi 170,904 1,392,054 6,586,448 8 921,399 945 4,692
4 Tamil ta 189,646 633,442 4,617,162 31 264,574 569 9,953
5 Bengali bn 190,692 1,424,344 9,114,985 16 557,313 1,957 21,750
6 Telugu te 127,902 427,495 4,801,399 11 150,055 402 15,355
7 Malayalam ml 88,583 555,811 4,399,416 13 208,008 404 7,524
8 Marathi mr 102,781 334,558 2,699,584 10 183,936 317 2,400
9 Nepali ne 30,058 115,063 1,363,692 5 79,323 158 1,499
10 Punjabi pa 59,663 193,223 842,833 10 60,104 116 1,865
11 Gujarati gu 30,909 136,665 902,805 3 86,869 104 0
12 Kannada kn 35,612 161,118 1,378,643 4 99,152 164 2,357
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,097 63,431 895,715 2 28,353 23 35
14 Odia or 21,012 87,937 591,756 4 42,192 83 170
15 Maithili mai 14,360 46,133 275,965 4 17,508 45 126
16 Sindhi sd 22,163 85,228 405,800 4 22,433 37 159
17 Sanskrit sa 12,532 82,677 499,686 3 46,282 45 443
18 Bhojpuri bh 9,188 82,196 801,112 2 40,525 44 54
19 Assamese as 25,271 127,008 629,506 6 50,691 131 2,424
20 Santali sat 15,837 34,046 193,396 2 11,360 42 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,643 8,929 214,392 3 11,872 17 0
22 Divehi dv 3,220 12,505 137,608 2 28,534 27 884
23 Pali pi 304 1,831 103,551 1 8,644 10 1
24 Tulu tcy 3,861 22,260 249,360 5 9,041 39 14
25 Kashmiri ks 11,525 27,035 150,035 2 14,493 27 94

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,125,947 4,853,434 16,244,020 20 3,305,554 613 16,661
2 Gujarati gu 65,980 72,267 224,176 2 4,621 16 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,834 81,639 239,350 3 13,517 46 620
4 Bengali bn 38,795 614,213 1,994,616 4 22,130 43 5,478
5 Sanskrit sa 20,429 163,916 418,072 2 10,662 29 64
6 Telugu te 23,824 212,332 568,216 4 7,205 31 494
7 Tamil ta 37,413 642,065 1,956,840 4 16,771 58 33
8 Kannada kn 1,555 112,693 315,019 2 8,603 18 18
9 Marathi mr 4,797 109,565 236,143 2 6,154 16 15
10 Assamese as 4,213 92,385 257,856 4 4,486 17 239
11 Odia or 1,310 12,490 59,631 1 3,055 10 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,529 72,749 232,789 6 2,718 34 212
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 9,042,211 11,119,625 92,080,130 76 4,487,049 4,697 19
2 Tamil ta 408,720 421,471 2,003,770 7 25,688 33 168
3 Kannada kn 265,553 269,967 692,928 2 8,486 27 0
4 Hindi hi 184,997 208,000 487,429 2 20,317 23 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,446 139,196 581,056 2 10,610 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 7,378 12 310
8 Urdu ur 26,100 33,828 112,911 1 5,963 8 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,451 16,778 35,469 1 3,025 5 0
10 Bengali bn 122,328 169,033 538,036 2 16,126 290 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,034 263,492 509,420 1 7,681 5 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,358 9,024 31,675 1 2,636 9 38
13 Marathi mr 2,707 6,159 29,388 1 4,033 6 3
14 Gujarati gu 684 6,434 29,284 2 3,564 5 0
15 Nepali ne 600 17,919 66,630 2 5,209 7 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

See also

References

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