Hindi Wikipedia

Infobox website
name = Hindi Wikipedia



caption =
url = http://hi.wikipedia.org/
commercial = No
location = Miami, Florida
type = Internet encyclopedia project
language = Hindi
registration = Optional
owner = Wikimedia Foundation
author =

The Hindi Wikipedia (Hindi: विकिपीडिया "wikipīḍiyā") is the Hindi language edition of Wikipedia, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Started in July 2003, the Hindi Wikipedia currently has over 22000 legitimate content articles and nearly 2,000 registered editors (as of July 18, 2007).Hindi Wikipedia Statistics hi icon] It was created primarily to cater to the needs of Hindi speaking people, especially from India. As the Hindi Wikipedia uses Indic script (Devanagari), it requires support for complex text rendering. It has a phontetic roman alphabet to devanagari tool so latin alphabet keyboards can be used to type devanagari without downloading any software.

Milestones

*July 11, 2003 - Hindi Wikipedia was created.
*March 14, 2007 - The Hindi Wikipedia reached the 10,000 article milestone.

References

External links

* [http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0 Hindi Wikipedia]