The Wolof Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Wolof language. It currently has 1,707 articles.
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Screenshot .png) Main Page of the Wolof Wikipedia in November 2024 | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Wolof language |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | wo |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2005 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Wikipedia was started in the beginning of 2005, along with the Bambara Wikipedia and the Fula Wikipedia. Kasper Souren, a Dutchman who worked with Geekcorps, wrote in a report to an open source conference that until 2006 "not much happened" on the Wolof Wikipedia.[1] Up until that year, many small articles with very little content were posted.
In April 2007 Ibrahima Fall (username Ibou), a Senegalese student living in Italy, began adding substantial content to the Wolof Wikipedia.[1] It had 500 articles in November 2007, 543 articles in June 2008, and 1028 articles in August 2015.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ a b c Lih, Andrew. The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion, New York City. 2009. First Edition. ISBN 978-1-4013-0371-6 (alkaline paper). p. 158.
- ^ "List of Wikipedias". Meta. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
External links
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Wolof edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia