Translations:Universal Code of Conduct/Initial 2020 Consultations/Hindi/2/en
Hindi or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST/ISO 15919: Mānak Hindī), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in India. As a linguistic variety, Hindi is the fourth most-spoken first language in the world (341 million speakers,4.429% of the world population), after Mandarin, Spanish and English. Hindi alongside Urdu as Hindustani is the third most-spoken language in the world, after Mandarin and English. Constitutionally, Hindi is the most spoken and understood language of India. As per World Hindi Secretariat, a new and strong picture of Hindi is emerging in the global scenario due to Hindi service being held in countries like Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana, Suriname, Europe, America, Nepal etc.
The Hindi Wikipedia (Hindi: हिन्दी विकिपीडिया) is the Hindi edition of Wikipedia. It was launched on 11 July 2003. As of May 2020, it has 138,128 articles. As of May 2020 out of 551,200+ Hindi Wikipedia users, 2,100+ are active editors, 6 Administrators (+2 bot accounts), 56 autopatroller, 12 rollbacker,14 reviewers,2 Account creators. The total number of articles on the project is 139057.