Hindi Wikipedia

The Hindi Wikipedia () is the Hindi edition of Wikipedia. It was launched in July 2003. As of , it has . In June 2020, there were 38 million page views, the number of page views has been decreasing since November 2019. On August 30, 2011, it became the first localized edition of Wikipedia in India to surpass 100,000 articles. Hindi, using the Devanagari script, requires complex transliteration aids to be typed on devices. Thus, a Phonetic Roman Alphabet converter is also available on the Hindi Wikipedia, so the Roman keyboard can be used to contribute in Hindi, without having to use any special Hindi-typing software.
Hindi Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in India after the English version. However, more than the 85% of Wikipedia pageviews by India still go to English. However, between January 2016 and January 2021, the share of Hindi Wikipedia increased from 2% to 8%. Most pageviews come from India. Hindi Wikipedia has more than 1,400 active users. The number of articles is also growing.
Google Translator Toolkit usage.
The Hindi Wikipedia was launched on 11 July 2003. In July 2008, Google announced that they had been working with Hindi Wikipedians to translate English language articles into Hindi and had since 2008 translated 600,000 words in Hindi using a combination of Google Translate and manual checking. This coordinated translation contributed to growth for the site.