About us
|
|
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. 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.
Wikimedia Chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote Wikimedia projects within a country. Chapters are formed by people from within the community and enable volunteers to take their work beyond what they can do individually, besides providing the benefit of a formal organisational set-up. While independent, chapters are recognised by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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.
|
How Can You Help?
|
We Need Your Help
We need your help and volunteer time. Here are some of the ways how you can help:
Join the India Chapter
- Currently we have 114 members (October 2015) of the chapter. Chapter membership spans multple cities, languages and age groups.
- Membership Forms and FAQ - We invite your membership to the Wikimedia India Chapter. Active wikipedians or those interested in Wikimedia projects in India can join the chapter and volunteer.
Please Donate
|
|
|
Featured Wikimedian
|
Piyush Maurya with User Name :हिंदुस्थान वासी is primarily a Hindi Wikimedian who contributes on Hindi Wikipedia where he also holds the rights of an administrator. He is a native of Aligarh city in Western Uttar Pradesh. Piyush has been editing on Wikimedia Projects ever since 2013. He first began editing on English Wikipedia and once while reading North India Floods 2013 article he came to know about Hindi Wikipedia from the left side bar. Hindi happens to be his first language and since then he hasn't looked back. He has more than 47,000 global edits which also includes Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons etc. Piyush has been instrumental in taking initiatives to set up different policies on Hindi Wikipedia such as User Page Policy etc. Piyush enjoys editing on film articles and also enjoys reviewing edits. As an administrator, he admires to have many more quality articles. Piyush was recently bestowed with the responsibility to be a User Group Representative for Hindi Wikimedians by the community.
See also: Featured Wikimedian Archive
|
News & Announcements
|
|
Announcements
- Wikimedia India is the knowledge partner for Tangentia Jigyasa Quiz 2019 ,which was held in Goa on 3rd March 2019.You can find more information on the event page.
- Wikimedia India Photography Competition is a Wikimedia Commons based Photography competition, organized by IISC, Bangalore in collaboration with Wikimedia India, as part of Pravega, which is their Annual College festival. You can find the Report here.
See also: Announcements Archive
For Blog posts Chapter Blog
|
Contact Us
|
Email
- Chapter : chapter
 wikimedia.in
- Board : wikimedia-in-execlists.wikimedia.org
- Membership Queries : membershipwikimedia.in
Discussion Lists
|
|
Disclaimer: The Wikimedia India Chapter is an autonomous entity with no direct control over the Wikimedia projects and other websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, USA.
