Invitation and Recommendations for writing articles on Hindi Wikipedia Hindi wikipedia invites and welcomes Wikipedians to contribute for the cause of spreading knowledge and the Hindi language This page contains guidelines for writing a wiki article on any topic at the Hindi Wikipedia with special recommendations for writing in Hindi Note The script font family for Hindi is Devan gari the script font system for English is Roman script also the Hindi spelling system is not completely standardized This article is yet in English language mostly in order to encourage even non native foreign people who have learnt are learning Hindi to contribute to the Hindi wikipedia and native Hindi speakers who normally write in English The examples given below are only for explanation Recommendations Firstly for proper viewing it is recommended to keep all links NOT UNDERLINED Otherwise the below the Hindi alphabets might get partly hidden behind the underlines For this please go to My Preferences at the top of the page then click Misc and then choose underline links Never Save your settings Also do not click yes for justify paragraphs otherwise on some browsers the devanagari script will appear highly distorted All users are requested and encouraged to contribute articles here especially to create new articles on general topics They are also encouraged to expand the existing articles and improve upon them A non user can also do the same it is recommended but not required to register yourself as a wikipedian user at the Hindi wikipedia As far as possible each article should be written with a Neutral Point of View NPOV no nationalistic or partiality or hatred based articles are welcome The articles should be based on facts and appropriate references should be provided as and where needed See the English wiki s help page for editing in general Almost all the general wiki features are available for editing on Hindi wiki too Guidelines for the content matter is mostly the same as given in English wiki Since the Hindi wiki is at its initial stages users are welcome to take introduction and basic points from the English or another wikipedia s corresponding article and translate them for small articles An in page link to the English wiki s article will be deemed sufficient for references a template might be created stating this For longer articles it is recommended to mention the references separately Since most computer users in India and elsewhere have the standard Western type keyboard it is best recommended but not necessarily required to use the virtual software keyboard like the one of Hindimozhi or of ISIS Tavultesoft Keyman which are freewares These are advantageous because the contemporary Hindi speakers in India often write messages chat using Hindi words but written in Roman English script and the layout of these keyboards is quite the same that such people use For example using the normal keyboard with this software typing ga would give and ghaa would give Create the article with its name written in Hindi devanagari script Always take care to include the nukta dot below for foreign Urdu loanwords wherever it occurs in the standard spelling For non Indian names use that spelling for article name and other words which is commonly encountered in Hindi newspapers G K books Hindi dubbed TV documentaries and Hollywood films and magazines e g America China French For English acronyms short forms use the initials in Roman script and again create a full form in Hindi and redirect it to the short form e g IPA UNO Doing the opposite is also fine But creating the article with the Hindi short form as ० ० ० is not recommended Also the article proper must be written with the proper nukta as and then a non nukta mis spelt version should preferably be created to redirect to the correct spelling Hindi wikipedia strongly recommends the users to write articles in everyday common Hindi in the dialect Hindustani or Hindi Urdu i e which may include many loanwords from Persian and Arabic The use of is in general neither required nor recommended E g use instead of instead of instead of instead of etc However for technical and specialized vocabulary the use of is recommended and usually