This document provides information about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. It notes that Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website globally, serving over 400 million unique visitors per month. It is run on a small budget with less than 100 employees and only 400 servers. The key aspects are that Wikipedia is ad-free, relies entirely on volunteer contributions, and is a non-profit organization. The document also provides statistics on the number of editors, languages Wikipedia is available in, and page views per month to emphasize the scale and reach of Wikipedia globally.

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RadhaKrishna Arvapally
Bangalore SIG Chair
arkrishna@wikimedia.in
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17. Online Encyclopedia
5th most visited website in
20+ Indian languages the world
282 languages 11 years old
~5% of the world’s 400mn unique visitors
population reads Wikipedia
per month
11.7 bn page requests per
month
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18. Everything on Wikipedia has been written
by people like
You & Me!
+80,000 editors on 4mn contributions per
English Wikipedia month
1000s of changes per
hour
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19.  Wikimedia artifacts are free to use
 No printing cost
 Quality benchmarked with Encyclopedia
Britannica for comparable articles
 Errors injected last only for a short time
 Dynamically edited and hence more up-to-date
than any print version can be
 Articles are rated for quality
 Community keeps a vigil
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20.  Neutral point of view
 No projection of ‘best way’ or ‘only way’
 Where alternate views exist, balanced and impartial
presentation is required
 Verifiable accuracy
 References need to be cited from verifiable authoritative
sources
 Copy right laws are respected; plagiarism is not
allowed
 All contribution is to be shared through free and open share
alike license
 Multiple authors arrive at consensus
 No article is owned by any one individual; Can be edited by
others
 Collaboration and dialogue promoted through talk pages
 Dispute resolution mechanisms exist
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27. http://wikimedia.in/
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28.  To build knowledge society through free and
open education projects
 To promote and educate the general Indian
public about the availability and use of free
and open educational content, and build
capacity to access, develop and contribute to
encyclopedias, dictionaries, books, images, etc
in various Indian languages
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29.  Independent ‘not for profit’ organization
 Wikimedia Chapter was registered as a Society
in Bangalore
 Approved by Wikimedia foundation as a
chapter
 29th chapter
 Wikipedia is the 5th most visited global website
 19.4 Mn visitors to wikimedia products from India
 No of internet users in India 137 Mn
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30.  Executive council
 Members elect a Executive council
 EC elects President, Secretary, Treasurer
 Budgets and organizes events
 Members can be individual or corporate
 Subscription per annum: Rs 100 for Indl; Rs 1000 for
corporate
 197 members; 45 from Karnataka
 Special Interest groups: City; Language
 Bangalore – Shri Radhakrishna
 Kannada – Shri Omprakash
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34. Bangalore : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBL50
Coimbatore : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Bangalore wikipedians: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Category:Wikipedians_in_Bangalore
Language committee : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Langcom
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38. Naveen Francis & Karthik Nadar
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39.  http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia
 http://www.facebook.com/WikipediaOnCampus
 http://twitter.com/DYKIndia
 http://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaIndia
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44.  Use it for your information (& thank all the
volunteers for their knowledge/ time/ efforts&Money)
 Editorial Contribution
 Monetary contribution
 S/w developer contribution
 Community
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45. Permanent Link Make your CD/DVD Make your own book
Read Online
On Mobile
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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49. WikiPedia on SMS
SMS to 92433 42000
@wikipedia YourSearch
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61. In script writing
Phonetic writing
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68. Wikuizzing
WikiReader 15$
CafePress
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71. Mobile APP development New Feature/Tool development.
Eg: Book creator
CD/DVD making
eMail the user
SMS the user
Map
Quizz
Offline Readers like (Kiwix)
User edit count
WYSIWYG editing
GeoTagged banner (based on IP etc…)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
Developer’s Mailing lists
Offline Wikipedia Mobile Developer’s Mailing lists
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72. • 5th most consulted websites
• Serving 454 million people per month (with billions of page
views).
• Ad free websites
• Only 400 servers
• < 100 employees (Yahoo has 12,000? employees)
• Volunteer driven non-profit organization (Including wikimedia
India president, executive committee… are volunteers)
• Servers & maintenance
•Contributions are tax exempted in USA. Working towards the
same in India
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78. 1. Bhadani (English Content)
2. VS Sunil (Malayalam Content)
3. Abhay Natu (Marathi Content)
4. Ashish Bhatnagar (Hindi
Content)
5. Rajasekhar (Telugu and English
Content)
6. Satishchandra (Gujarati Content)
7. Arnab Dutta (Bengali and English
Content)
8. Bhawani Gautam (Nepali
Content)
9. T.Sujatha (Telugu Wikipedia and
Wiktionary, Content, E- A visually challenged Wikipedian
Magazine, Outreach) addressing the gathering at
the Wiki conference 2011
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