The Wikimedia Foundation co-founder, Jimmy Wales, mentioned it would be the initial office outward the United States.
He told the Indian website, CIOL, that no place had been selected yet, but the office would open inside of a few months.
Mr Wales mentioned the operation would primarily include of two to 4 people and offer the local community.
"For Wikimedia, going multilingual and pity calm for all the languages is the way forward," he said.
Europe and Africa had been deliberate as probable locations. But Europe was already rarely created and there were concerns about the technical capabilities in Africa, he said.
"India was in the center of the two extremes," mentioned Mr Wales. "It is a expansion zone and we moreover similar to the eagerness in the country."
Wikipedia has more than 91,000 active contributors working in more than 270 languages, according to the Wikipedia website.
Barry Newstead, the arch universal development officer, mentioned there was "a broad undertaking to giveaway expertise in India".
"We hope to encouragement Indians to realize the prophesy of a world in that every singular person can openly share in the total of all knowledge," he mentioned in e-mailed comments.
Since its origination in 2001, the free-to-access website has grown rapidly. It attracts scarcely 78 millions visitors a month, according to its own figures.
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