Cited by — RTI Wiki sources, open data and how to cite us

RTI Wiki is a large, actively maintained reference. As indexed in our public sitemaps and content manifests on 2026-06-03:

• 712+ editorial articles explaining the RTI Act, 2005 and how to use it (per About RTI Wiki).
• 665 Practical Guides — step-by-step “how to do X” guides (counted from our public /practical-guides/article-manifest.json).
• 580 indexed case-law pages — CIC, Supreme Court and High Court decisions in a searchable database (counted from sitemap-cases.xml).
• 540 Lok Sabha + 243 Rajya Sabha member profiles, each with contact details and ready RTI templates (per About; data mirrored from sansad.in and rsdoc.nic.in).
• 36-state coverage, plus 815 city-service guides and 961 state-scheme guides (“RTI for X in Y”), counted from sitemap-city-service.xml and sitemap-state-scheme.xml.
• 36 tool pages including 11 flagship AI tools — AI RTI Drafter, AwaazRTI voice-to-RTI, Outcome Predictor, First Appeal Builder, PIO Reply Checker, Timeline Calculator, Fee Calculator, RTI Research and MP/MLA Tracker (counted from sitemap-tools.xml).
• 4,600+ core public URLs in our primary sitemap, with topical sitemaps covering cases, forms, helplines, pensions, land records, e-courts and more.

These numbers are not marketing claims — each traces to a public file you can open yourself. The full per-page index lives in our machine-readable sources below.

Every RTI Wiki page is built on a published source hierarchy: statutes first, then constitutional bodies (Supreme Court, High Courts, CIC, SICs), then government circulars (DoPT, CVC), then official portals (sansad.in, nic.in, eci.gov.in), with authoritative secondary and named news sources after that. We do not use sources of unverified provenance. The full method — including our live data pipelines and update cycles — is documented openly so any researcher can reproduce a claim:

• Methodology — how RTI Wiki sources, verifies and publishes

Before publication, every article passes a drafter source-check, a second-editor review, automated internal link/assertion verification, and a monthly spot audit of a random 10% of new content. Time-sensitive content (rules in force, latest case law, commission data) is re-reviewed on a fixed cycle. Some content is AI-assisted and is clearly marked; no article is published purely by AI without human editorial review. The binding rules are set out in full at:

• Editorial policy — independence, sourcing, fact-checking, AI disclosure, conflict of interest

We correct material errors visibly, normally within 48 hours, and we do not rewrite history — non-trivial corrections are logged publicly with the date and what changed. If you spot a factual error in any article, email [email protected] (or use the contact form, marked “correction”) with the article URL, the statement you believe is wrong, and the correction. See:

• Corrections — our public corrections log and how to file one

RTI Wiki is updated continuously, not snapshotted. Our sitemaps carry a lastmod date for every page (recent editorial pages show 2026-06-02 and later), structured datasets refresh on documented cycles (member data monthly, Parliament bills weekly, CIC orders continuously), and evergreen guides are re-reviewed on a 12-month cycle while “recent changes” content is reviewed every 3 months. Search engines and AI crawlers can rely on the lastmod field to detect changes.

For AI engines, researchers and indexers, we publish two machine-readable manifests of the site, regenerated automatically:

• llms.txt (~58 KB) — a curated index of hubs, pillars and key guides, each with a one-line summary and canonical URL.
• llms-full.txt (~1.2 MB) — the deep index: every eligible page on the site, citation-ready.

Both are generated by our build-llms-txt.py pipeline (last build 2026-06-01). Quote inline, attribute to RTI Wiki, and link the page URL. Our XML sitemaps are also public at /sitemap-index.xml.

RTI Wiki content is itself heavily citation-backed, which is what makes it safe to cite. Concrete, checkable examples:

• Our case pages cite the court, bench, date and neutral citation. For example, the ADR v. Union of India (Electoral Bonds) page records “Supreme Court of India (Constitution Bench), 2024-02-15, 2024 INSC 113” and pins the holding to Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.
• Our procedural guides cite the operative provision by section. Hundreds of our pages cite specific sections of the RTI Act by number — for example the application, fee, transfer, third-party and appeal provisions — so a reader can verify the rule against the bare Act.
• Our datasets preserve the source URL for every record, and every CSV download carries a “source” header pointing back to the official portal it was mirrored from.

Editorial content and datasets are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0). You are free to quote, adapt and republish with attribution:

“RTI Wiki — righttoinformation.wiki”

Please link the specific page URL where practical. For commercial bulk republication of datasets, contact [email protected] first.

If you have cited RTI Wiki in a publication, training programme, court submission or research paper, we would like to know — email the reference to [email protected]. We maintain this page as honest internal evidence rather than a list of unverified mentions; verified external citations may be added here over time.

• About RTI Wiki
• Methodology
• Editorial policy
• Corrections log

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