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Swahili Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available in Swahili
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
URL sw.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 April 2024, it has about 80,000 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 accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
66,546 79,892 2,290 17

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.

External links


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Swahili Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available in Swahili
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
URL sw.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional

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 April 2024, it has about 80,000 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 accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
66,546 79,892 2,290 17

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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