<span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span>Dear All,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>As part of my discussions with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with Dhaval Vyas from Gujarati wikipedia. Dhaval has shared his editing experiences, his vision about Gujarati wiki projects, and other related topics. I have summarized the discussion in meta wiki. It is available here: </span></div>

<div><span><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Gujarati/Discussions/2011" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Gujarati/Discussions/2011</a></span></div>

<div><span> </span></div><div><br></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Gujarati wikipedia has more than 21,000 articles now. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Gujarati wiki community is slowly making its presence among Indic wiki communities. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Though the current community strength is small (15 active users), veteran users like Dhaval have started conducting various outreach programs to spread the message about Gujarati wiki among Gujarati speakers. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Community is working on to enable Narayam in Gujarati wikipedia and soon community will have their own mailing list also.  Hope all these efforts will bring in more active users to Gujarati wikipedia.</span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
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<div><span><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kindly read the experience of Dhaval at:</span></div>

</span></div></span></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Gujarati/Discussions/2011" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Gujarati/Discussions/2011</a></span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
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<div><br></div></span></div></span><span>Regards</span></div></div><div><span>Shiju</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div></span>