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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]
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Swahili |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | sw.wiki.x.io |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
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 December 2024, it has about 91,000 articles, making it the 77th-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.
| Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
|---|---|---|---|
| 71,722 | 90,685 | 2,182 | 14 |
References
edit- ^ "List of Wikipedias by language group". wikimedia.org.
- ^ Building Wikipedia in African languages, by Noam Cohen, International Herald Tribune, August 27, 2006.
- ^ "Hungry for New Content, Google Tries to Grow Its Own in Africa". The New York Times. 24 January 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "List of Wikipedias". wikimedia.org.
External links
edit- (in Swahili) Swahili Wikipedia
- Statistics for Swahili Wikipedia