Swahili Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inSwahili
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLsw.wikipedia.org
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The Swahili Wikipedia (Swahili: Wikipedia ya Kiswahili) is the Swahili language edition of Wikipedia. It is the largest edition of Wikipedia in a Niger–Congo or Nilo-Saharan language, followed by the Yoruba Wikipedia.[1]

It was mentioned on August 27, 2006, in International Herald Tribune and New York Newsday articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions.[2] In 2009, Google sponsored the creation of articles in the Swahili Wikipedia.[3] On June 20, 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of December 2023, it has about 79,000 articles, making it the 82nd-largest Wikipedia.[4]

The Swahili Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in Tanzania and Kenya after the English version with respectively 14% and 4% of the visits, as of January 2021.

Swahili Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accountsNumber of articlesNumber of filesNumber of administrators
64,38579,1152,29017

References

  1. ↑ "List of Wikipedias by language group". wikimedia.org.
  2. ↑ Building Wikipedia in African languages, by Noam Cohen, International Herald Tribune, August 27, 2006.
  3. ↑ "Hungry for New Content, Google Tries to Grow Its Own in Africa". The New York Times. January 24, 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ "List of Wikipedias". wikimedia.org.


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