Wikimedia Bangladesh

Wikimedia Bangladesh
A three colored svg logo of Wikimedia Bangladesh

Bangladesh map on globe
Abbreviation WMBD
Formation 30 August 2011 (2011-08-30)
Founded at Dhaka, Bangladesh
Type non-profit organization
Legal status Active
Headquarters Shelteck Niribili, 210/2 (1st Floor), New Elephant Road, Katabon
Location
  • Dhaka, Bangladesh
Area served
 Bangladesh
Methods Bengali Wikipedia, Bengali Wiktionary, Bengali Wikiquote, Bengali Wikibooks, Bengali Wikisource
President
 Ali Haidar Khan
Key people
Volunteers
 41
Mission To help people and organisations create and preserve open knowledge, and to help provide easy access for all.
Website wikimedia.org.bd

Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation (aka Wikimedia Bangladesh or WikimediaBD) is a registered charity established to support volunteers in Bangladesh who work on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia. It is a Wikimedia chapter[1] approved by the Wikimedia Foundation which owns and hosts those projects.

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

It has a temporary office in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

History

It was approved by Wikimedia Board of trustees at October 3, 2011 and was the 39th local chapter to be approved by the Wikimedia Foundation board. It is registered at Joint Stock Companies & Firms – Bangladesh on 9 June 2014[2] under the Societies Registration Act of Bangladesh and its official name is Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation.[3]

Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Bangladesh collaboration

In 2014, at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin Stevie met with representatives from Wikimedia Bangladesh to discuss the potential of collaborating on a Bengali language project.[4]

Board of Trustees

EC members of Wikimedia Bangladesh during chapter's first AGM at Dhaka in 2016

As of January 2016, the Board of Trustees comprises:[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Paroutis, Sotirios; Heracleous, Loizos; Angwin, Duncan (February 1, 2013). "Wikimedia chapters". Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases. SAGE. p. 243. ISBN 978-1849207508. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey, Wikipedia Signpost
  3. ↑ "About Wikimedia Bangladesh". wikimedia.org.bd. WMBD. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ Jonathan Cardy (15 April 2014). "Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Bangladesh collaboration". Wikimedia UK. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Interim Executive Committee members of Wikimedia Bangladesh". Wikimedia Bangladesh. Retrieved 16 January 2016.

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