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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]

Wikimedia Projects

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Wikipedia

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 6,869,629 61,269,580 1,236,295,534 855 47,831,692 113,813 923,449
2 Urdu ur 209,284 1,103,807 6,315,539 8 183,489 265 12,672
3 Hindi hi 163,336 1,336,281 6,224,842 7 824,550 984 4,490
4 Tamil ta 167,081 570,108 4,059,225 32 235,534 279 8,508
5 Bengali bn 156,705 1,264,051 7,537,539 14 465,499 1,042 19,095
6 Telugu te 98,782 361,215 4,250,242 11 131,261 180 14,125
7 Malayalam ml 85,853 526,355 4,017,277 14 182,798 278 7,247
8 Marathi mr 97,517 315,288 2,458,851 10 164,749 160 10,250
9 Nepali ne 31,310 110,040 1,236,521 7 68,397 115 1,316
10 Punjabi pa 54,792 177,891 764,732 10 50,919 95 1,863
11 Gujarati gu 30,434 129,503 869,210 3 79,144 68 0
12 Kannada kn 32,592 141,384 1,236,403 4 88,135 248 2,455
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,087 63,425 894,133 2 26,103 15 41
14 Odia or 18,461 81,207 539,242 6 37,152 46 175
15 Maithili mai 14,116 43,220 263,033 5 14,635 29 120
16 Sindhi sd 18,009 63,086 286,045 4 18,998 41 159
17 Sanskrit sa 12,205 77,060 487,849 3 40,879 100 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,726 77,550 772,504 2 36,088 39 54
19 Assamese as 13,597 95,759 428,843 6 42,132 87 1,921
20 Santali sat 11,473 24,618 149,949 3 8,269 41 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,596 9,481 212,472 4 10,529 16 0
22 Divehi dv 3,116 12,309 134,856 4 25,933 24 931
23 Pali pi 2,557 4,669 102,331 1 7,649 15 1
24 Tulu tcy 2,352 12,934 136,016 3 6,739 34 13
25 Kashmiri ks 5,411 14,742 93,476 2 11,523 16 13

Wikisource

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Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,062,493 4,394,668 14,410,750 23 3,137,643 377 16,177
2 Gujarati gu 62,712 68,508 211,207 2 4,092 8 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,488 72,970 218,824 3 12,393 12 605
4 Bengali bn 33,681 696,625 1,829,648 4 19,424 38 6,357
5 Sanskrit sa 20,043 161,237 404,079 2 9,154 15 64
6 Telugu te 19,660 146,541 441,295 4 6,175 16 546
7 Tamil ta 24,712 534,920 1,650,326 4 14,659 100 42
8 Kannada kn 7,216 92,942 254,505 2 7,635 41 6
9 Marathi mr 4,771 102,147 208,929 2 5,385 15 15
10 Assamese as 3,145 69,460 189,353 2 3,694 15 78
11 Odia or 1,287 11,625 56,793 1 2,637 3 0
12 Punjabi pa 1,617 61,258 172,841 6 2,098 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 8,126,019 9,687,966 81,138,835 80 4,211,616 2,195 14
2 Tamil ta 408,424 421,132 1,997,043 7 23,524 33 239
3 Kannada kn 264,804 268,832 676,625 1 7,432 13 0
4 Hindi hi 184,189 206,682 481,961 2 18,118 27 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,298 139,104 555,342 3 9,747 13 4
6 Odia or 108,635 110,847 228,453 2 2,970 3 1
7 Telugu te 106,609 122,056 969,874 2 6,402 13 682
8 Urdu ur 26,659 33,628 111,973 1 5,368 6 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,450 16,597 34,993 1 2,692 5 0
10 Bengali bn 100,800 137,167 302,304 3 11,885 194 6
11 Sanskrit sa 6,027 263,464 509,176 1 6,787 7 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,191 7,268 29,299 1 2,337 3 39
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,155 29,220 1 3,689 3 3
14 Gujarati gu 665 6,403 29,089 1 3,241 5 0
15 Nepali ne 432 16,746 63,663 1 4,741 9 23
16 Assamese as 16 257 4,958 1 579 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 53 3,323 1 470 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 230 4,856 1 512 0 0

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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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