Template:WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community News/hi

Wikipedia

 * Namespace shortcuts, [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiLove WikiLove extension] and [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NewUserMessage NewUserMessage extension] are enabled in July 2011 for editing ease.
 * [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleFeedback ArticleFeedback extension] is enabled in August 2011.
 * Number of articles on the Hindi Wikipedia crosses 1 lakh on 30 August 2011. As of now, hindi wikipedia contains [//hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Statistics 1,02,300+ articles]. Edits per article increased from 9.4 in June 2011 to 12.5 in February 2012 (an increase of almost 33%!)
 * An official [//hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0_%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF deletion policy] is adopted in November 2011.
 * On 28 November 2011, [//hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Film WikiProject Films] was started. It is now one of the largest active projects with more than 1000 articles under it.
 * A new [//hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A1 upload form] is added in December 2011.
 * [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts WebFonts extension] is enabled in December 2011, allowing readers without unicode devanagari fonts to read the hindi wikipedia.
 * A new [//hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0 mainpage] is adopted on 23 December 2011, which utilizes CSS 3 and javascript; and [//hi.m.wikipedia.org/ also works for mobile users].
 * The [//hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AF GLAM project] for Crafts Museum, New Delhi is started in April 2012; leading so far to the creation of three articles and numerous images on wikimedia commons.
 * [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam Narayam extension], an input method editor for Mediawiki which allows phonetic and inscript input in hindi without any installation of any software on the user's computer, is enabled in April 2012.