<div dir="ltr">Just to correct a common misconception among western folks, Urdu is not intelligible to present day Indians. After 1947, the Indian government change the writing script of the most popular lingua franca (in northern areas) to Sanskrit and called it Hindi. Consequently, Urdu in India is now limited to sections of Muslim population.<br>
<br>Urdu, written and spoken, however, is thriving in Pakistan as it is mandatory part of school education (grades 1-12). Contrary to stats on the wikipedias about mother tongue, all schooled Pakistanis are proficient in Urdu. Most of ur.wikipedians hail from Pakistan. <br>
<br>Some folks on <a href="http://www.urduweb.org/en/">http://www.urduweb.org/en/</a> have done translation (albeit of poor quality) for some software. You may contact the localization team there as there might be some interest in the translatewiki project. The ur.wikipedia volunteers can hardly keep up with the betawiki translation. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/7 Casey Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@caseybrown.org">lists@caseybrown.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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From: Siebrand Mazeland <<a href="mailto:s.mazeland@xs4all.nl">s.mazeland@xs4all.nl</a>><br>
Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM<br>
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India, home to the largest spoken<br>
languages in the world: A localisation opportunity<br>
To: <a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org">translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
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Dear Wikimedians from India.<br>
<br>
For those who do not know me, I am a staff member of<br>
<a href="http://translatewiki.net" target="_blank">http://translatewiki.net</a>, a project where most of the translation of<br>
MediaWiki is done. MediaWiki is the software used by all wikis of the<br>
Wikimedia Foundation. There is more to translatewiki, but I hope you may<br>
discover that later.<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
Siebrand Mazeland<br>
<a href="http://translatewiki.net" target="_blank">translatewiki.net</a> staff<br>
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[1]<br>
<a href="http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:MediaWiki_localisation_in_the_50_most_" target="_blank">http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:MediaWiki_localisation_in_the_50_most_</a><br>
spoken_languages<br>
[2] <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org" target="_blank">http://www.mediawiki.org</a><br>
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