Swahili Wikipedia

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Swahili Wikipedia

Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Swahili
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	sw.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional

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 January 2022, it has about 69,000 articles, making it the 87th-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.

References[]

^ "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". nytimes.com. January 24, 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
^ "List of Wikipedias". wikimedia.org.

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(in Swahili) Swahili Wikipedia
Statistics for Swahili Wikipedia

v t List of Wikipedias by article count
5,000,000+	English (6,443,113) Cebuano
2,000,000+	Swedish German French Dutch
1,000,000+	Russian Spanish Italian Egyptian Arabic Polish Japanese Vietnamese Waray Chinese Arabic Ukrainian Portuguese
500,000+	Persian Catalan Serbian Indonesian Norwegian (bokmål/riksmål) Korean Finnish
200,000+	Hungarian Czech Turkish Serbo-Croatian Chechen Southern Min Romanian Tatar Basque Malay Esperanto Hebrew Armenian Bulgarian Danish South Azerbaijani Slovak Kazakh Minangkabau Estonian Belarusian Croatian Greek Simple English Lithuanian
100,000+	Azerbaijani Galician Slovene Urdu Norwegian (nynorsk) Georgian Hindi Thai Tamil Uzbek Latin Welsh Asturian Volapük Macedonian Cantonese Bengali Latvian Tajik Burmese Afrikaans
50,000+	Occitan Bosnian Albanian Kyrgyz Belarusian (Taraškievica) Malayalam Marathi Telugu Breton Javanese Western Punjabi Swahili Luxembourgish Tagalog Irish Silesian
20,000+	Chuvash Aragonese Punjabi Nepali Kurdish Kurmanji Sorani Alemannic Kannada Scots
10,000+	Mongolian Samogitian Odia Scottish Gaelic Yiddish Sindhi Maithili Ossetian Sanskrit Gorontalo Ladin
5,000+	Zulu Northern Sami Crimean Tatar Bhojpuri Assamese Dutch Low Saxon
2,000+	Guarani Konkani Ladino Extremaduran Santali Ripuarian
1,000+	Wolof Tulu Xhosa
500+	Bambara

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