hard-to-get-a-nickna's Journal: Wikipedia in more Indian languages

According to India enews, Wikipedia has known an increase of its number and articles in Indian languages:

During a visit to India, Wales [The wikipedia founder] noted that volunteer contributions to the Kannada Wikipedia had been growing 22 percent and Bengali 35 percent a month.

'These growth rates are fairly high. Of course, they're growing from a small base. But Kannada already has over 5,000 articles and is still growing. That's really exciting. Bengali too has a growth rate of 35 percent,' he said.

'It's not as bad as it was a year ago. We had almost nothing then. Now, languages like Bengali, Kannada, Marathi are in the 3,000-5,000 article range. Hindi, Assamese over 1,000. But Hindi, a very large language, has only 1,500 entries. That's a little surprising,' Wales told IANS.