Contribute to RTI Wiki — RTI Wiki Citizen Guide 2026

How to contribute to RTI Wiki — share RTI experiences, report documented refusals, and help build cleaner precedent for applicants across India. No account, no form-filling. Everything runs through the discussion space under each page.

• A documented RTI refusal — the application, the PIO's reply, the Section clause invoked, the outcome of appeal.
• A CIC or State Information Commission order you have come across.
• A sample RTI that worked — especially for subjects not currently in the Query Builder.
• A correction — typos, broken links, dated citations, missing amendments.
• A new perspective — a State-level angle, a sector-specific practice note, a drafting tip.

Every content page on RTI Wiki has a discussion section at the bottom. Scroll down, type your contribution in plain language, submit. Comments are moderated before they appear — you'll see a “pending review” message on submit, and the comment becomes public once approved.

Guidelines:

• Redact personal information — do not post identification documents, phone numbers, exact addresses, or third parties' personal data.
• Be specific — name the Section cited, the authority, the date.
• Link to the PDF if it is already public (Shodhganga, RTI replies on a personal blog, etc.).
• Neutral tone — this is a reference work, not an advocacy platform.

Every page carries a “Was this page helpful?” Yes/No widget at the bottom. If you click No, a short note box opens — describe what's missing or wrong. We read every one. The feedback is logged server-side with a hashed identifier (no personal tracking).

If a topic is missing (for example, a State-specific rule change, a sector RTI practice you've developed, a recent judgment we haven't covered), post the suggestion in the discussion of the closest existing page — for example, a missing State rules page goes into the discussion of RTI Rules start. Include:

• Proposed title.
• Two to three paragraphs of what the page would cover.
• Sources — citations, gazette references, CIC order numbers.

We turn high-signal suggestions into draft pages within about a week.

• Moderation — every new comment is reviewed before it becomes public. Spam and personal-attack content is deleted.
• Licensing — by posting, you agree your contribution is released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 (the same licence as the rest of the wiki), so that others can re-use the text freely.
• Attribution — we credit contributors by display name in the discussion itself. If you'd like your contribution woven into the main article text, tell us in the comment and we'll add a thanks line in the “Last reviewed” footer.

As of April 2026, these categories are the highest-priority gaps:

1. State-specific RTI rule changes post-14 November 2025 — the DPDP Rules, 2025 have cascaded into some State notifications.
2. CIC orders interpreting the amended Section 8(1)(j) — we want to track the first wave of decisions under the new text.
3. High Court rulings from 2025-2026 that touch Section 2(h) (public authority), Section 8(1)(e) (fiduciary), or Section 8(1)(h) (investigation).
4. Sample RTI drafts for under-served subjects — farm subsidies, PM-KISAN, PMAY housing, student loan processing, pharma-price approvals.
5. Practitioner notes — first-person essays from activists, journalists, PIOs reflecting on the working of the Act.

• Political campaigning or content that attacks specific individuals by name without public-record basis.
• Documents that themselves breach Section 8(1)(j) or the DPDP Act — for example, another person's identification documents obtained illegally.
• Commercial RTI-consultancy promotion — links to paid filing services.
• Unverified court order PDFs — we prefer orders already on the Court's or Commission's own website.

This wiki is written in the DoPT / CIC bench-book register: neutral, authoritative, third person, British-Indian spelling. If you draft a new entry, the closer your prose is to that register, the faster we can integrate it.

Every factual claim carries an inline citation. Every page ends with a “Sources” list, a “Last reviewed on” date, and a tag line. If you adopt those conventions, your contribution will sit cleanly alongside existing pages.

RTI Wiki has grown from 91 bytes of scaffolding to a working reference on the Right to Information Act, 2005 — currently 193 indexed pages. The content has been used by PIOs in Central departments, by advocates preparing second appeals, and by journalists chasing public-record leads. Your contributions make the next applicant's job easier.

• The RTI Act, 2005 — current text.
• FAQ — twenty-five most-asked RTI questions.
• How to File RTI Online in India — 2026 step-by-step.
• Why RTI Applications Get Rejected.
• RTI Query Builder — drafting templates.
• Case law library.
• DokuWiki syntax — for those writing long-form entries.

Last reviewed on: 20 April 2026 — RTI Wiki editorial team. Last reviewed: 24 April 2026.