Wiki Club Jamia

16/09/2025

Calling all photography geeks at the Jamia! Showcase your creativity this September with "Wiki Clicks Jamia" – an open photography contest where your passion for photography meets the beauty of Jamia Millia Islamia.

As Ansel Adams aptly said, “You don't take a photograph, you make it.” So, grab your camera as it’s time to unravel Jamia from its iconic buildings to its lush green lawns. Let your best snapshots tell the legacy and charm of this institution — and contribute to global knowledge.

Steps to follow:
1: Create an account on Wikimedia Commons. We advise using a unique anonymous username.

2: Scan the QR code and submit your registration form!

3: Begin uploading images through our dedicated Upload Wizard on Wikimedia Commons (link in bio).

31/10/2024

✨ Celebrating a Milestone! ✨
We mark the 1st Anniversary of Wiki Club Jamia and the 12th Anniversary of Wikidata! 🎉
From our first steps to our future goals, we’re grateful for a year of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and growth. Here’s to many more years of making open knowledge accessible to all!
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02/06/2024

Glimpses from our recent workshop, held on the 28th of May 2024, together in collaboration with and . We admire the passion of our leading female members and Affaf, for organising it very well.

12/02/2024

A squirrel nibbling on a biscuit.
Photo by , CC BY-SA 4.0, at

08/12/2023

A very interesting article about protest art at Jamia Millia Islamia, contributed by one of our volunteers:

Students and artists created art and graphite paintings on the walls and roads of the Jamia Millia Islamia campus in New Delhi, India, following the 2019 Jamia Millia Islamia attack by Delhi Police in December 2019.[1] The protest art also spread into the neighborhood of Shaheen Bagh and their prote...

06/12/2023

Situated at an elevation of 4,225 m (13,862 ft), Pangong Lake is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and West Tibet.

Pic: , CC BY-SA 4.0,

04/12/2023

Our volunteers have grown up. This article on a French actress and art curator has got its first image today, and the image was captured and made available for free by one of our volunteers:

Guslagie Malanda (born 1990)[1] is a French actress and art curator. She has starred in the films My Friend Victoria (2014) and Saint Omer (2022).

03/12/2023

Our volunteers have begun exploring the vast Wikimedia movement. Here is a "stub article" on one of the former vice-chancellors of the Jamia Millia Islamia.

Ali Ashraf (1930–1996) was an Indian academician who served as the vice-chancellor of Jamia Milia Islamia from 1983 to 1989.[1][2]

21/11/2023

Recently on November 15, we had an interactive workshop on the basics of Wikimedia projects. It was a lot of learning and an un-learning process and we tried exploring the basic Wikimedia ecosystem.

Group photo by: (CC BY-SA 4.0)

17/11/2023

We invite our members to participate in the "500 edit challenge". This begins on November 20 and has some amazing benefits.

More information:

The Wiki Club Jamia invites its active members to participate in the 500 edit challenge. In this challenge, participants will need to cross the 500 edit mark in the next six months. You either contribute by improving previous articles, fixing references, adding images, learning new things, contribut...

14/11/2023

In collaboration with Deoband Community Wikimedia and the English Researchers Collective (Eng Res Co) at Jamia Millia Islamia, Wiki Club Jamia is delighted to host its first interactive training workshop on the basics of Wikimedia projects.

See you tomorrow at the Department of English Seminar Room.

11/11/2023

We are organising our first interactive workshop on the basics of Wikimedia projects in collaboration with the Deoband Community Wikimedia and English Researchers Collective (Eng Res Co) on November 15, at 2:30 PM. The tentative venue for this workshop is the Seminar Room, DoE, Jamia Millia Islamia.

More information and registration: https://w.wiki/83ou (Online registration closes on November 12, at 23:59)

Should you have any questions, please let us know.

Wiki Club Jamia is conducting an offline interactive training workshop to train its first cohort of volunteers and help them explore the basics of the Wikimedia projects. This event is open to current students of the Jamia Millia Islamia.