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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 [email protected].

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) :

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 7,138,068 65,115,563 1,333,927,612 822 51,548,843 292,571 960,908
2 Urdu ur 239,281 2,327,581 9,393,504 8 206,742 363 8,591
3 Hindi hi 167,576 1,384,845 6,508,047 6 891,776 1,173 4,657
4 Tamil ta 180,982 615,576 4,458,698 32 254,847 606 9,648
5 Bengali bn 182,362 1,389,917 8,782,136 16 528,231 2,465 21,299
6 Telugu te 120,372 408,619 4,645,234 11 144,067 474 14,979
7 Malayalam ml 87,725 550,837 4,348,468 13 200,552 474 7,450
8 Marathi mr 101,314 328,465 2,647,228 10 177,860 359 2,432
9 Nepali ne 29,417 112,699 1,335,751 6 76,063 199 1,479
10 Punjabi pa 59,413 191,794 830,336 10 57,631 144 1,866
11 Gujarati gu 30,805 135,467 896,489 3 84,724 123 0
12 Kannada kn 34,639 158,880 1,323,921 5 96,206 265 2,373
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,092 63,430 895,440 2 27,797 24 35
14 Odia or 20,419 86,322 577,308 4 40,801 84 170
15 Maithili mai 14,242 45,595 271,756 4 16,730 41 126
16 Sindhi sd 20,230 73,761 355,780 4 21,460 50 158
17 Sanskrit sa 12,479 82,005 497,592 3 45,097 43 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,889 80,923 786,863 2 39,379 43 54
19 Assamese as 21,629 119,636 577,955 6 48,238 158 2,398
20 Santali sat 14,474 30,840 183,779 3 10,558 40 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,641 8,912 214,123 4 11,575 13 0
22 Divehi dv 3,186 12,457 137,093 2 27,825 25 896
23 Pali pi 301 1,830 103,431 1 8,341 6 1
24 Tulu tcy 3,040 18,983 236,524 5 8,724 26 12
25 Kashmiri ks 8,859 21,816 129,456 2 13,622 37 79

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,132,381 4,834,071 15,715,578 19 3,235,750 603 16,638
2 Gujarati gu 64,756 70,965 220,098 2 4,489 9 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,208 77,166 231,348 4 13,160 18 602
4 Bengali bn 37,272 619,193 1,938,268 4 21,302 35 5,557
5 Sanskrit sa 20,387 162,522 415,023 2 10,282 42 64
6 Telugu te 22,859 202,955 543,735 4 6,947 44 465
7 Tamil ta 33,790 624,187 1,904,366 4 16,355 76 32
8 Kannada kn 7,076 94,270 269,588 2 8,374 21 19
9 Marathi mr 5,356 108,240 227,999 2 5,928 12 15
10 Assamese as 3,601 84,363 235,034 4 4,339 30 184
11 Odia or 1,298 12,272 59,374 2 2,975 4 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,334 69,481 212,853 6 2,563 23 212
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 8,728,513 10,647,318 89,565,807 76 4,384,433 4,978 18
2 Tamil ta 408,633 421,365 2,003,033 7 25,189 45 168
3 Kannada kn 265,515 269,916 692,402 2 8,245 22 0
4 Hindi hi 184,958 207,917 487,011 2 19,814 37 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,322 139,166 556,307 2 10,433 17 4
6 Odia or 108,645 110,909 228,847 2 3,313 4 1
7 Telugu te 107,719 124,062 979,709 1 7,184 41 310
8 Urdu ur 26,082 33,785 112,754 1 5,829 9 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,452 16,780 35,451 1 2,970 2 0
10 Bengali bn 107,023 146,745 476,514 4 14,380 45 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,029 263,486 509,380 1 7,467 4 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,343 8,886 31,406 1 2,581 5 38
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,151 29,313 1 3,957 4 3
14 Gujarati gu 674 6,427 29,258 2 3,501 6 0
15 Nepali ne 580 17,873 66,348 2 5,123 10 23
16 Assamese as 16 259 4,960 1 637 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,325 1 508 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 232 4,858 1 550 0 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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