Special Interest Groups


 * To nominate someone for the role of SIG Chair, please see : SIG Nominations.
 * ''To nominate someone for the role of SIG Chair, or to nominmate yourself, you must be a member of the chapter. Please refer to this page for details. Joining the chapter is easy. It costs INR 100 for a year and only requires a simple form to be filled up.



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/or a member of the Executive Committee  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

 * Srikanth Ramakrishnan-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

Bangalore SIG


SIG page: Bangalore SIG chair: Radhakrishna Arvapally

RadhaKrishna is UMTS NodeB Architect working in Alcatel-Lucent, living in Bangalore. He started contributing to Telugu/English WikiMedia Projects from 2006. Wikimedia username: Arkrishna Email me at: Arkrishna12px@undefinedwikimedia.in 

Mumbai SIG
SIG page: Mumbai SIG chair: Under transition

Kundan Amitabh User Id : angpradesh was the former SIG chair for Mumbai. The SIG is under leadership transition. Please volunteer if you would like to take this up. Wikimedia username: Email me at: 

Kolkata SIG


SIG page: Kolkata SIG chair: Kalyan Sarkar

Kalyan Sarkar is a software professional based in Kolkata. He made his first edit in 2006 and returned after a gap of three years to become a regular contributor since 2009. His interest areas include the history and culture of Bengal and Kolkata.

Wikimedia username: User:BengaliHindu Email me at: kalyan12px@undefinedwikimedia.in 
 * Contributor in English Wikipedia and Commons
 * Involved in organizing monthly meet ups in Kolkata.
 * Interested in organizing Wiki outreach programs.

Hyderabad SIG
SIG page: Hyderabad SIG chair: Under transition

Abhijith Jayanthi was the former Hyderabad SIG chair. The SIG is under leadership transition. Please volunteer if you would like to lead the SIG. 

Bhubaneswar SIG
SIG page: Bhubaneswar SIG chair: Sailesh Patnaik Wikimedia username: Saileshpat Email me at:Sailesh.patnaik007@gmail.com

Bangla SIG


SIG page: Bangla SIG chair: Jayanta Nath

Jayanta Nath is a Civil Engineering professional based in Kolkata. He started his contributions to Wikimedia / Wikimedia in 2006 as an anonymous editor and registered his username in 2007.


 * Active contributor and Administrator in Bengali Wikipedia and Bengali Wikibooks.
 * Actively involved in Wikipedia activities based out of Kolkata.
 * Have been active in running Kolkata meetups every month for wikipedians along with a core team of wikipedians.
 * His interest is in organising Wikipedian efforts and in outreach. There is a whole lot of outreach work to be done for Indian language wikipedias.

Wikimedia username : User:jayantanth Email me at : jayanta12px@undefinedwikimedia.in 
 * In other hand he co-activist of Foss movement in West Bengal through Free Software Foundation and  Free Software Foundation of India and West Bengal Free Software Mancha.

English SIG


SIG page: English SIG chair: Ashlin

AshLin is interested in  editing articles on a wide variety of subjects including  biodiversity,  philately, science, history, specifically military  history. AshLin is interested and active in outreach and GLAM in Pune. He had recently participated in the Victoria and Albert Museum GLAM  event for expanding  Tipu's Tiger. A curator of a small museum, AshLin is a supporter of Marathi Wikipedia and has fairly good command of Marathi language. He actively involves in English and Marathi Wikipedia activities. He is currently involved in giving a framework to the Offline Schools Wikipedia Indian Edition and also to the cleanup effort  needed for  WikiProject India on English Wikipedia. Wikimedia username : User:Ashlin Email me at : ashlin12px@undefinedwikimedia.in 

Kannada SIG


SIG page: Kannada SIG Chair: Omshivaprakash H L Omshivaprakash H L is a professional based in Bengaluru. He is interested in outreach programs across Karnataka. Have been on wikipedia since 2007 as a registered user. He has been encouraging people to use English & Kannada Wikipedia as a reader/contributor ever since he explored it on internet. Wikimedia username : User:Omshivaprakash Email me at : omshivaprakash12px@undefinedwikimedia.in 

Marathi SIG
SIG page: Marathi SIG Chair: Under transition Mahitgar was the former SIG chair for Marathi. The SIG is under leadership transition. Please volunteer is you are interested to take the lead. Wikimedia username : Email me at : 

Sanskrit SIG
SIG page: Sanskrit SIG Chair: Under transition. Swaroop Rao was the former Sanskrit SIG chair. The SIG is now under transition to new leadership. Watch this space for more updates. Wikimedia username : Email me at : 

Telugu SIG
SIG page: Telugu SIG Chair: Under transition

Rahimanuddin Shaik was the former Telugu SIG chair. The SIG is under leadership transition. Please volunteer if you are interested to lead the SIG. Wikimedia username : Email me at:

GLAM SIG
SIG page: GLAM India SIG chair: Under Transition

Pradeep Mohandas was the former GLAM SIG Chair. This SIG is under leadership transition. Please volunteer if you are interested to lead this SIG. Wikimedia username : Email me at : 

Gendergap SIG
SIG page: Gender gap SIG chair: Under Transition

Rohini Lakshane was the former Gendergap SIG Chair. This SIG is under leadership transition. Please volunteer if you are interested to lead this SIG. Wikimedia username : Email me at : 