City and Language Special Interest Groups Status

Task force objectives
Wikimedia India proposes to interface with Community through the formation of  City and Language special interest Subcommittee. The following are the  guidelines to identify leaders for them.


 * A chair person of each SIG (City/Langauge) can only represent either a city or a language.
 * Members of SIG: You can belong to any number of Language SIGs  to which you contribute, but only belong to one City SIG that is  closest to your place of residence in the same geographic entity as  yours.
 * Self  nomination with recommendation by others or nominations  of other members of the same SIG and   acceptance by such nominated individuals  are allowed.
 * Chairs of such subcommittees will interface with one EC member charged with City/Language SIG
 * All such Chairpersons, if they are not members, are required to apply for membership of the Chapter at the earliest.
 * SIG pages on Members wiki will be used for nominations, Members identification, discussions and finalisation of the Chairpersons.
 * In case  no consensus emerges on the chairperson for a particular SIG, chapter   EC will decide on the same considering the inputs available.
 * Chairpersons are expected to serve in their roles for one-two years.

Task force Stewardship & Members

 * Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language SIGs
 * Each SIG Chair (details in the pages linked below) will be part of this team

Role of the Chairperson of the City/Language
The role will evolve based on inputs. Please discuss on talk page.
 * Single point contact for Chapter to discuss issues, events of interest in such SIG
 * Responsible for promoting Wikimedia projects, nurturing growth of Community
 * SIG framework

SIGs that are bootstrapping

 * 1) Bangalore SIG
 * 2) Delhi SIG
 * 3) Hyderabad SIG
 * 4) Kolkata SIG
 * 5) Mumbai SIG
 * 6) Pune SIG

SIGs that are to be started

 * 1) Chennai SIG
 * 2) Cuttack SIG
 * 3) Gauhati SIG
 * 4) Kochi SIG

SIGs that are bootstrapping

 * 1) English SIG
 * 2) Bengali SIG
 * 3) Hindi SIG
 * 4) Kannada SIG
 * 5) Malayalam SIG
 * 6) Marathi SIG
 * 7) Nepali SIG
 * 8) Odia SIG
 * 9) Sanskrit SIG
 * 10) Telugu SIG

SIGs that are to be started

 * 1) Assamese SIG
 * 2) Bodo SIG
 * 3) Dogri SIG
 * 4) Gujarati SIG
 * 5) Kashmiri SIG
 * 6) Konkani SIG
 * 7) Maithili SIG
 * 8) Manipuri SIG
 * 9) Punjabi SIG
 * 10) Santhali SIG
 * 11) Sindhi SIG
 * 12) Tamil SIG
 * 13) Urdu SIG

Nominations & Finalisation
Kindly add your nominations for Chairperson in the relevant page links above. If there is no page link for the particular City/Language, kindly add the same and then update the linked page. See Bangalore SIG or Pune SIG as an example.