Hindi Wikipedia
The Hindi Wikipedia () is the Hindi edition of Wikipedia. It was launched in July 2003. As of , it has . In October 2021, there were 72 million page views. 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, although 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. In 2020 Hindi surpassed 2,000 active users for the first time, although in 2021 it has decreased due to COVID-19 pandemic. It has been observed that due to COVID pandemic most of the Indian Wikipedias have suffered decreases in active users, despite the rapid growth of the  previous years (and early 2020), including Hindi, which fell from 15.2 thousand active users in 2020 to 12.2 thousand in 2021.As of 2022, the recovery is still ongoing. Thus, it can be supposed that if COVID pandemic hadn't began, the growth of Indian Wikipedias would have continued. 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.