Wikimedia India

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 7,169,489 65,467,314 1,344,546,826 811 52,390,519 277,105 965,919
2 Urdu ur 287,712 2,517,803 9,871,312 9 209,981 395 8,815
3 Hindi hi 169,080 1,387,499 6,527,603 7 900,625 1,033 4,666
4 Tamil ta 182,840 619,901 4,506,560 31 257,827 492 9,728
5 Bengali bn 186,737 1,403,432 8,888,613 16 537,507 1,951 21,430
6 Telugu te 122,535 413,432 4,681,637 11 145,809 333 15,080
7 Malayalam ml 87,993 552,879 4,359,909 13 202,960 427 7,460
8 Marathi mr 101,800 330,671 2,674,809 10 179,883 390 2,403
9 Nepali ne 29,686 113,705 1,345,132 6 77,203 165 1,480
10 Punjabi pa 59,510 192,534 835,040 10 58,401 164 1,865
11 Gujarati gu 30,843 136,005 898,463 3 85,362 106 0
12 Kannada kn 35,007 159,608 1,366,481 4 97,105 127 2,360
13 Bishnupriya Manipuri bpy 25,093 63,413 895,471 2 27,976 20 35
14 Odia or 20,847 87,499 584,907 4 41,344 86 170
15 Maithili mai 14,330 45,873 273,882 4 16,982 54 126
16 Sindhi sd 21,344 78,564 371,747 4 21,785 49 159
17 Sanskrit sa 12,492 82,355 498,304 3 45,495 49 445
18 Bhojpuri bh 8,966 81,390 789,473 2 39,710 55 54
19 Assamese as 24,008 124,712 600,462 6 48,963 136 2,412
20 Santali sat 14,885 31,725 186,819 3 10,798 47 0
21 Goan Konkani gom 3,642 8,918 214,224 3 11,661 17 0
22 Divehi dv 3,198 12,493 137,263 2 28,029 28 896
23 Pali pi 299 1,820 103,457 1 8,431 11 1
24 Tulu tcy 3,526 20,987 242,106 5 8,830 32 12
25 Kashmiri ks 10,031 23,716 135,447 1 13,943 27 84

Wikisource

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 Language Wiki Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Images
1 English en 1,140,661 4,878,978 15,877,451 19 3,254,319 821 16,621
2 Gujarati gu 65,079 71,316 221,172 2 4,519 15 0
3 Malayalam ml 20,208 77,192 231,588 3 13,213 18 602
4 Bengali bn 37,398 619,122 1,943,097 4 21,499 38 5,568
5 Sanskrit sa 20,390 162,594 415,648 2 10,393 26 64
6 Telugu te 22,944 206,105 550,545 4 7,000 26 467
7 Tamil ta 34,764 630,607 1,922,621 4 16,526 53 33
8 Kannada kn 7,216 95,008 272,836 2 8,465 20 19
9 Marathi mr 5,373 108,694 229,333 2 5,981 21 15
10 Assamese as 3,736 89,861 247,907 4 4,391 20 224
11 Odia or 1,302 12,335 59,446 2 2,994 8 0
12 Punjabi pa 2,341 70,464 215,671 6 2,595 32 212
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
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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 8,791,265 10,745,842 90,162,793 76 4,414,727 4,878 19
2 Tamil ta 408,650 421,391 2,003,324 7 25,388 47 168
3 Kannada kn 265,524 269,925 692,495 2 8,321 25 0
4 Hindi hi 184,969 207,945 487,113 2 19,973 31 0
5 Malayalam ml 131,442 139,190 580,983 2 10,491 15 4
6 Odia or 108,650 110,918 228,884 2 3,338 3 1
7 Telugu te 107,729 124,076 979,812 1 7,246 12 310
8 Urdu ur 26,091 33,816 112,876 1 5,873 6 2
9 Punjabi pa 15,452 16,777 35,453 1 2,985 5 0
10 Bengali bn 104,996 150,084 507,840 3 14,580 35 7
11 Sanskrit sa 6,032 263,489 509,396 1 7,531 9 4
12 Gujarati sd 2,355 8,968 31,585 1 2,600 8 38
13 Marathi mr 2,703 6,150 29,321 1 3,983 7 3
14 Gujarati gu 677 6,431 29,265 2 3,520 8 0
15 Nepali ne 600 17,909 66,557 2 5,148 6 23
16 Assamese as 16 259 4,961 1 639 0 0
17 Pali pi 1 55 3,326 1 511 0 0
18 Bhojpuri bh 0 232 4,859 1 552 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