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Gujarati Wikipedia
From 19,985 pagesd in June, we have now progressed to 21,660 pages at the time of writing this (10th November 2011). That significantly means more than 1500 articles in 4 months, with the average rate of nearly 12+ articles per day.

Gujarati Wikiquote
This project hasn't done any progress since the last newsletter.

Gujarati Wiktionary
Similar to a few other Indic Wiktionary projects, Gujarati Wiktionary lacks active users and editing gadgets. It currently has 506 entries.

Gujarati Wikisource
A request to create Gujarati Wikisource has been filed and the incubator project is set up. See the request at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikisource_Gujarati. There are currently 245 pages containing various Gujarati literary works.

Organised
On 20th August 2011, Gujarati Wikipedua organised its first ever formal talk with Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, an organisation active in the field of Gujarati Literature. User Dsvyas (ધવલ) from wikipedia, who is active admin on gu.wiki as well, lead the talk and created interest for wikipedia among the literary enthisuasts. There were many renowned authors present in this meeting. Media coverage of the event can be found at http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_sahitya-parishad-to-add-more-gujarati-pages-on-wikipedia_1578522

Under Planning
A few other similar events are under planning and would be organised immediate after wikiconference India, these includes one at Guajrat University in Ahmedabad and one at a college in Gandhinagar.

Events Attending
Dhaval Vyas, who is admin on Gujarati wikipedia is attending wikiConference India 2011 and also going to present a talk on the possibile ways of development for Gujarati wikipedia. Another user Vkvora2001 has also confirmed attending Wikiconference.