The Hindi-language edition of Wikipedia opened in the summer of 2003, a couple of years after the original English edition. Hindi is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and one of the official languages of India, written in the Devanagari script, but its Wikipedia has long been smaller than the number of speakers would suggest, because of limited internet access in earlier years and the lack of editors. Wikimedia India and other communities have organised editing events, and the growing use of mobile phones has broadened participation. The edition is written by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, and it has grown steadily in size over the years.
Before and after
- 8 July 2003Release of Hebrew Wikipedia
- 8 July 2003Release of Hungarian Wikipedia
- 9 July 2003Release of Arabic Wikipedia
- 9 July 2003Release of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- 11 July 2003Release of Hindi Wikipedia
- 12 July 2003Release of Romanian Wikipedia
- 19 July 2003Release of Wikibooks
- 28 July 2003Release of Mozilla Thunderbird
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
More in Science & technology
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- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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