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 May 2024, it has about 81,000 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
67,190 80,848 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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