• 2011 October 03

Company Description

Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation is a registered charity established to support volunteers in Bangladesh who work on Wikimedia projects.

Wikimedia Bangladesh (Bengali: উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশ) or WMBD (locally registered in Bangladesh as Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation) is an approved chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. It was approved by the Wikimedia Board of trustees on October 3, 2011 and was the 39th chapter to be approved by the Wikimedia Foundation board. It was registered on 9 June 2014 at Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms under the Societies Registrations Act, 1860 bearing the registration number S-11906 and official name Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation. The main objective of this chapter is to help coordinate and promote various Bengali language Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikibooks etc throughout Bangladesh.