Wikimedia Bangladesh
The chapter has several collaborations with other institutions and has organised events for volunteers aimed at adding content to Foundation projects.
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. 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 under the Societies Registration Act of Bangladesh and its official name is Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation.
Board of trustees
As of 2024 the Board members comprises:
- Shabab Mustafa (President)
- Masum Al-Hasan (General Secretary)
- Moheen Reeyad (Treasurer)
- Tanvir Rahman (member)
- Ali Haidar Khan (member)
- Ankan Ghosh Dastider (member)
- R K Hannan (member)
- Dolon Prova (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. 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.
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. 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.