Wikimedia India

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

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 7,197,237 65,808,673 1,355,239,121 814 53,328,056 269,433 969,934
2 Urdu ur 533,078 2,842,062 11,013,736 9 214,005 432 10,102
3 Hindi hi 169,999 1,389,890 6,556,495 7 910,852 1,076 4,682
4 Tamil ta 186,368 626,770 4,561,122 31 261,299 580 9,814
5 Bengali bn 188,365 1,413,331 9,004,054 16 547,226 1,840 21,558
6 Telugu te 124,868 420,339 4,748,466 11 147,755 374 15,185
7 Malayalam ml 88,117 554,058 4,377,108 13 205,640 415 7,487
8 Marathi mr 102,124 332,230 2,685,161 10 181,891 311 2,403
9 Nepali ne 29,844 114,353 1,355,002 6 78,370 161 1,486
10 Punjabi pa 59,596 192,998 839,127 10 59,275 132 1,867
11 Gujarati gu 30,839 136,237 899,933 3 86,087 85 0
12 Kannada kn 35,203 159,996 1,370,178 4 98,022 147 2,364
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,097 63,423 895,575 2 28,170 21 35
14 Odia or 20,928 87,710 587,300 4 41,768 63 170
15 Maithili mai 14,349 46,058 274,753 4 17,244 47 126
16 Sindhi sd 21,767 82,597 386,325 4 22,107 42 159
17 Sanskrit sa 12,507 82,554 498,999 3 45,900 37 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 9,096 81,876 795,763 2 40,116 52 54
19 Assamese as 24,452 125,414 612,684 6 49,890 175 2,416
20 Santali sat 15,269 32,396 189,126 2 11,074 36 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,644 8,924 214,293 3 11,764 11 0
22 Divehi dv 3,218 12,510 137,498 2 28,306 23 896
23 Pali pi 302 1,827 103,486 1 8,526 12 1
24 Tulu tcy 3,587 21,530 244,960 5 8,930 26 12
25 Kashmiri ks 10,816 25,372 141,637 2 14,216 33 88

Wikisource

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 Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,107,407 4,787,322 16,026,810 19 3,287,676 721 16,653
2 Gujarati gu 65,542 71,798 222,752 2 4,567 8 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,337 78,327 234,244 3 13,364 51 608
4 Bengali bn 37,761 618,520 1,975,157 4 21,782 59 5,474
5 Sanskrit sa 20,414 163,288 416,897 2 10,512 21 64
6 Telugu te 23,150 208,340 557,404 4 7,096 45 468
7 Tamil ta 36,619 637,302 1,945,576 4 16,630 58 33
8 Kannada kn 1,538 112,551 314,685 2 8,539 22 18
9 Marathi mr 5,427 109,228 232,395 2 6,050 17 15
10 Assamese as 4,029 91,341 253,852 4 4,445 24 226
11 Odia or 1,306 12,416 59,538 1 3,018 5 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,485 72,115 222,162 6 2,663 42 212
Page namespace Main namespace
Language All pages Without text Not proofread Problematic Proofread Validated All pages With scans Without scans %
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bn7100626898684886572177067548755875281699.79
gu1504631710409136801131661371913422431.17
kn5029257145862454072181121064131209330.62
ml47090205112559132323486906420729569111.36
mr2344111223413510543415812915521.83
or72056030703407230296599955515.14
pa2431729313973441000714421523411822.37
sa5409015847918225991380520858480203782.30
ta4037119538115767223921059262522001425132.01
te51458119315170693502625552132424089915330.88

Statistics as on 03 May, 2019.

Wiktionary

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 Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 8,866,440 10,892,454 91,289,710 76 4,458,816 4,961 19
2 Tamil ta 408,668 421,414 2,003,552 7 25,540 37 168
3 Kannada kn 265,536 269,945 692,707 2 8,412 38 0
4 Hindi hi 184,994 207,995 487,306 2 20,154 22 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,446 139,195 581,025 2 10,553 7 4
6 Odia or 108,659 110,931 228,985 2 3,365 12 1
7 Telugu te 107,740 124,091 979,914 1 7,297 13 310
8 Urdu ur 26,096 33,823 112,894 1 5,919 7 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,452 16,777 35,457 1 3,004 5 0
10 Bengali bn 105,972 150,840 511,638 2 14,765 37 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,033 263,491 509,405 1 7,604 7 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,355 8,976 31,602 1 2,622 4 38
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,152 29,327 1 4,010 5 3
14 Gujarati gu 683 6,431 29,270 2 3,542 5 0
15 Nepali ne 600 17,918 66,589 2 5,178 4 23
16 Assamese as 16 259 4,961 1 640 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,326 1 512 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 232 4,859 1 553 0 0

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See also

References

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