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]

Swahili Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inSwahili
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLsw.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional

It was mentioned on 27 August 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 20 June 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of November 2024, it has about 87,000 articles, making it the 81st-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
70,806 86,842 2,181 14

References

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  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. 24 January 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  4. ^ "List of Wikipedias". wikimedia.org.
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