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Email: chapter(_AT_)wikimedia.in
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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

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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][2]

Wikimedia Projects

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Wikipedia

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 7,210,627 65,922,751 1,360,106,130 814 53,714,750 250,013 972,021
2 Urdu ur 652,856 2,980,792 11,602,770 9 215,856 380 10,276
3 Hindi hi 170,524 1,391,126 6,573,660 7 915,223 928 4,683
4 Tamil ta 187,651 629,339 4,590,561 31 262,692 488 9,873
5 Bengali bn 189,323 1,418,651 9,055,160 16 551,578 1,731 21,596
6 Telugu te 126,113 423,673 4,772,087 11 148,791 375 15,231
7 Malayalam ml 88,228 554,548 4,387,124 13 206,642 388 7,510
8 Marathi mr 102,350 333,140 2,690,730 10 182,870 303 2,403
9 Nepali ne 29,928 114,605 1,359,141 5 78,781 141 1,486
10 Punjabi pa 59,622 193,093 840,842 10 59,660 137 1,868
11 Gujarati gu 30,859 136,351 900,956 3 86,389 93 0
12 Kannada kn 35,219 160,315 1,371,804 4 98,534 235 2,358
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,096 63,426 895,656 2 28,265 26 35
14 Odia or 20,963 87,798 588,211 4 41,954 67 170
15 Maithili mai 14,354 46,082 274,991 4 17,345 37 126
16 Sindhi sd 22,020 84,075 395,568 4 22,255 46 159
17 Sanskrit sa 12,518 82,610 499,247 3 46,065 42 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 9,128 82,005 797,730 2 40,306 66 54
19 Assamese as 24,692 125,955 617,934 6 50,244 147 2,429
20 Santali sat 15,581 33,517 191,374 2 11,196 52 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,643 8,924 214,328 3 11,812 19 0
22 Divehi dv 3,218 12,510 137,518 2 28,410 20 896
23 Pali pi 302 1,828 103,503 1 8,572 9 1
24 Tulu tcy 3,658 21,756 246,133 5 8,977 29 12
25 Kashmiri ks 11,166 26,194 144,866 2 14,346 44 90

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,119,043 4,822,341 16,140,372 19 3,296,303 592 16,614
2 Gujarati gu 65,693 71,959 223,347 2 4,593 15 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,808 80,905 238,100 3 13,425 82 620
4 Bengali bn 38,474 617,620 1,989,669 4 21,913 48 5,440
5 Sanskrit sa 20,428 163,893 417,861 2 10,572 25 64
6 Telugu te 23,437 210,501 562,824 4 7,147 55 470
7 Tamil ta 37,354 640,026 1,952,304 4 16,680 60 33
8 Kannada kn 1,555 112,609 314,868 2 8,566 23 18
9 Marathi mr 5,441 109,539 233,285 2 6,092 16 15
10 Assamese as 4,106 92,074 255,868 4 4,460 20 228
11 Odia or 1,306 12,453 59,580 1 3,032 8 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,531 72,393 226,965 6 2,688 40 212
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 8,932,719 10,986,039 91,614,982 76 4,472,219 4,707 19
2 Tamil ta 408,717 421,465 2,003,685 7 25,594 30 168
3 Kannada kn 265,547 269,960 692,821 2 8,445 33 0
4 Hindi hi 184,993 207,995 487,356 2 20,238 15 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,446 139,196 581,038 2 10,571 7 4
6 Odia or 108,659 110,933 228,992 2 3,377 8 1
7 Telugu te 107,743 124,096 979,945 1 7,330 9 310
8 Urdu ur 26,096 33,824 112,897 1 5,937 8 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,451 16,778 35,461 1 3,013 6 0
10 Bengali bn 106,749 151,570 513,893 2 14,853 33 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,034 263,492 509,412 1 7,632 7 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,357 8,996 31,627 1 2,627 6 38
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,157 29,355 1 4,020 6 3
14 Gujarati gu 684 6,434 29,276 2 3,551 5 0
15 Nepali ne 600 17,919 66,594 2 5,191 6 23
16 Assamese as 16 259 4,961 1 640 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,326 1 512 1 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 232 4,859 1 553 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. 
  2. ↑ FAQ from AffCom
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