[6] In India, Urdu Wikipedia activities are hosted and promoted by the Dehalvi Wikimedia User Group.

[11] Much like the rest of Indic languages, Urdu suffers from an acute shortage of contributors due to various reasons.

Ahmed Nisar, a contributor to Urdu Wikipedia from India, claims that some of the reasons are the preference of the people for English-language media, as well as the lack of Urdu-speaking experts which are well versed in various aspects of current affairs.

Urdu is written in Nastaliq-style of the Perso-Arabic alphabet and derives a significant amount of formal vocabulary from Arabic, Persian and to a lesser extent from Turkish.

Hindi is written in the standardized-Devanagari alphabet of the Nagari script and derives a significant amount of formal vocabulary from Sanskrit majorly in tatsama form.