Wikimedia Bangladesh

Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation

উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশ ফাউন্ডেশন

Abbreviation| WikimediaBD
Formation| 3 October 2011; 14 years ago (2011-10-03)
Founder| Wikimedia community
Founded at| Dhaka, Bangladesh
Type| Non-profit organization
Registration no.| S-11906
Legal status| Active
Location|

* Dhaka, Bangladesh

Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 23°44′24″N 90°23′15″E﻿ / ﻿23.740117°N 90.3875823°E﻿ / 23.740117; 90.3875823

Area served

| Bangladesh
Methods| Bengali Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Bengali Wiktionary, Bengali Wikiquote, Bengali Wikibooks, Bengali Wikisource, Bengali Wikivoyage

President

| Tanvir Rahman

Key people

* Md. Delwar Hossain
(General Secretary)
* Shakil Hosen
(Treasurer)

Subsidiaries| regional communities
Affiliations| Wikimedia Foundation

Volunteers (2019)

| 71 (as of August 2019[ref])
Website| wikimedia.org.bd bd.wikimedia.org

Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation (mostly known as Wikimedia Bangladesh or WikimediaBD) is a registered charity established to support volunteers in Bangladesh who work on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.[1] It is a Wikimedia chapter[2] approved by the Wikimedia Foundation which owns and hosts those projects. As of 19 November 2019, it is the only official Wikimedia chapter in South Asia and the only chapter that operates in a Bengali-speaking environment.[3]

The chapter has several collaborations with other institutions and has organised events for volunteers aimed at adding content to Foundation projects.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Board of trustees
* 3 Activities
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## History

Wikimedia Bangladesh was approved by Wikimedia Board of trustees on 3 October 2011, and was the 39th local chapter to be approved by the Wikimedia Foundation board.[4] In May 2012, the organization applied to Registrar of Joint Stock Companies And Firms for local registration. It was registered locally on 9 June 2014[5] under the Societies Registration Act of Bangladesh and its official name is Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation.[6]

## Board of trustees

As of 2026, the Board members comprises:[7][8][9]

* Tanvir Rahman (President)
* Md. Delwar Hossain (General Secretary)
* Shakil Hosen (Treasurer)
* Moheen Reeyad (member)
* Shabab Mustafa (member)
* Subrata Roy (member)
* Dolon Prova (member)
* Mayeenul Islam (member)
* Tanbin Islam Siyam (member)

## Activities

Wikimedia Bangladesh runs various voluntary education programs such as workshops, photo contests, article contests and conferences in Bangladesh to promote and enrich the Wikimedia Foundation projects.[10][11][12] While Bengali language projects (such as Bengali Wikipedia) are the priority, it also helped with the launching of other regional language version of Wikipedia such as Santali Wikipedia and Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia.[13][14][15]

The organization also collaborates with other organizations and institutions such as Bangladesh National Museum, the Embassy of Sweden in Dhaka, Grameenphone for the enrichment of the Wikipedia project. When video piracy started in Bangladesh by using Wikipedia Zero in 2016, it worked jointly with the Wikimedia Foundation to raise awareness among the users.[12][16] In 2017, Bangladesh Air Force release their photos to Wikimedia Commons, and in 2019, Jago FM provides photographs of media personalities for the same purpose.

## See also

* List of Wikimedia chapters

## References

1. ↑ (in bn)Prothom Alo. 15 October 2011. https://www.prothomalo.com/technology/অনুমোদন-পেল-উইকিমিডিয়া-বাংলাদেশ.
2. ↑ Paroutis, Sotirios; Heracleous, Loizos; Angwin, Duncan (1 February 2013). "Wikimedia chapters". Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases. SAGE. p. 243. ISBN 978-1849207508. https://books.google.com/books?id=GjEPAAv4kiUC&q=Wikimedia+Bangladesh&pg=PT256. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
3. ↑ (in Bengali)Prothom Alo (Dhaka). 16 October 2011. https://www.prothomalo.com/technology/article/1617285/নবম-বছরে-‘উইকিমিডিয়া-বাংলাদেশ’.
4. ↑ (in Bengali). Dhaka: Samakal. 3 October 2019. https://www.samakal.com/technology/article/1910202/বছরে-‘উইকিমিডিয়া-বাংলাদেশ’.
5. ↑ Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey, Wikipedia Signpost
6. ↑ "About Wikimedia Bangladesh". http://wikimedia.org.bd/about-us/about-wikimedia-bangladesh.
7. ↑ "Interim Executive Committee members of Wikimedia Bangladesh". https://wikimedia.org.bd/about-us/committees.
8. ↑ "নির্বাহী পরিষদের সদস্য নির্বাচন ২০২৬ - উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশ" (in bn). https://bd.wikimedia.org/wiki/নির্বাহী_পরিষদের_সদস্য_নির্বাচন_২০২৬.
9. ↑ "রেজোলিউশন/নির্বাহী পরিষদের অফিস বিয়ারার নির্বাচন, ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০২৬ - উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশ" (in en). https://bd.wikimedia.org/wiki/রেজোলিউশন/নির্বাহী_পরিষদের_অফিস_বিয়ারার_নির্বাচন,_ফেব্রুয়ারি_২০২৬.
10. ↑ "10th anniversary of the Bangla Wikipedia celebrated" (in en). The Daily Star. 1 June 2015. https://www.thedailystar.net/bytes/10th-anniversary-the-bangla-wikipedia-celebrated-90832.
11. ↑ (in bn)Prothom Alo. 20 October 2011. https://www.prothomalo.com/lifestyle/বাংলাদেশে-উইকিমিডিয়া.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 (in bn)Prothom Alo. https://www.prothomalo.com/technology/article/130000/নতুন-বছরে-নতুন-লক্ষ্য.
13. ↑ "Santhali becomes India's first tribal language to get own Wikipedia edition" (in en). Hindustan Times. 9 August 2018. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/santhali-becomes-india-s-first-tribal-language-to-get-own-wikipedia-edition/story-fUP5LRZI0lEBlVGNCjW5cK.html. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
14. ↑ (in bn)Kaler Kantho. https://www.kalerkantho.com/print-edition/first-page/2014/02/15/52285#sthash.AL1CKnLu.dpuf.
15. ↑ "Gour Hari Das: The Unsung Freedom Fighter Whose Fight Didn't End With Freedom". 10 August 2018. https://www.thebetterindia.com/155519/gour-hari-das-freedom-fighter-independence-odisha-news/. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
16. ↑ Koebler, Jason (27 April 2016). "Wikipedia's Piracy Police Are Ruining the Developing World's Internet Experience" (in en). Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wikipedia-zero-being-surveilled-by-piracy-police/. Retrieved 19 November 2019.

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