Swahili Wikipedia

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Swahili Wikipedia

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Available language(s)	Swahili
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The Swahili Wikipedia (Wikipedia ya Kiswahili) is the Swahili language edition of Wikipedia. As of January, 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia had over 16,000 articles making it the 73rd largest Wikipedia^[1]. It is also currently one of the two only Wikipedias in Niger-Congo languages with over 1,000 articles (and the first to have crossed that threshold), the other being the Yoruba Wikipedia.

It is the largest African language Wikipedia, followed by Afrikaans.

It was mentioned in August 27, 2006 International Herald Tribune and New York Newsday articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions.^[2] On June 20, 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia got a new look main page.

Contents 1 Milestones 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Milestones

• August 27, 2006: Swahili Wikipedia reaches its 1,025 article.

[edit] See also

• Somali Wikipedia
• Yoruba Wikipedia
• Lingala Wikipedia
• Zulu Wikipedia
• Amharic Wikipedia
• Afrikaans Wikipedia

[edit] References

1. ^ The Swahili Wikipedia's grown up day after a day: See it at Meta-Wiki
2. ^ Building Wikipedia in African languages, by Noam Cohen, International Herald Tribune, August 27, 2006.

[edit] External links

• Swahili Wikipedia
• Statistics for Swahili Wikipedia by Erik Zachte

v • d • e List of Wikipedias in different languages by number of articles 1,000,000+ English (en)  · German (de) 750,000+ French (fr) 500,000+ Polish (pl) · Italian (it) · Japanese (ja) · Dutch (nl) · Spanish (es) · Portuguese (pt) 250,000+ Russian (ru) · Swedish (sv) · Chinese (zh) 100,000+ Arabic (ar) · Catalan (ca) · Czech (cs) · Danish (da) · Esperanto (eo) · Finnish (fi) · Hebrew (he) · Hungarian (hu) · Indonesian (id) · Korean (ko) · Lithuanian (lt) · Norwegian (Bokmål) (no) · Romanian (ro) · Serbian (sr) · Slovak (sk) · Turkish (tr) · Ukrainian (uk)  · Vietnamese (vi) 50,000+ Basque (eu) · Bulgarian (bg) · Croatian (hr) · Galician (gl) · Estonian (et) · Haitian Creole (ht) · Persian (fa) · Simple English (simple) · Slovene (sl) · Thai (th) 10,000+ Afrikaans (af) · Albanian (sq) · Aragonese (an) · Asturian (ast) · Azerbaijani (az) · Belarusian (be, be-x-old)  · Bengali (bn) · Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy) · Bosnian (bs) · Breton (br) · Cantonese (zh-yue) · Cebuano (ceb) · Georgian (ka) · Greek (el) · Hindi (hi) · Icelandic (is) · Ido (io) · Javanese (jv) · Kurdish (ku) · Latin (la) · Latvian (lv) · Luxembourgish (lb) · Macedonian (mk) · Malay (ms) · Malayalam (ml) · Marathi (mr) · Neapolitan (nap) · Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) · Quechua (qu)  · Samogitian (bat-smg) · Sicilian (scn) · Serbo-Croatian (sh) · Swahili (sw)  · Sundanese (su) · Tagalog (tl) · Tamil (ta) · Telugu (te) · Urdu (ur) · Welsh (cy) · Walloon (wa) 1,000+ Alemannic (als) · Amharic (am) · Armenian (hy) · Classical Chinese (zh-classical) · Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl) · Egyptian Arabic (arz) · Friulian (fur) · Gan (gan) · Hawaiian (haw) · Irish (ga) · Kannada (kn) · Kazakh (kk) · Khmer (km) · Ladino (lad) · Limburgish (li) · Lombard (lmo) · Lingála (ln) · Maltese (mt) · Māori (mi) · Nahuatl (nah) · Navajo (nv) · Northern Sámi (se) · Pennsylvania German (pdc) · Punjabi (pnb) · Romansh (rm) · Sakha (sah) · Saterland Frisian (stq) · Scottish Gaelic (gd) · Scots (sco) · Silesian (szl) · Tajik (tg) · Tongan (to) · Turkmen (tk) · Tatar (tt) · Venetian (vec) · Wu (wuu) · Yiddish (yi) · Yoruba (yo)

v • d • e African Language editions of Wikipedia by number of articles 10,000+ Swahili sw:  · Afrikaans af: 5,000+ Yoruba yo: 1,000+ Amharic am: · Lingala ln: · Wolof wo: 500+ Igbo ig: · Kikongo kg: · Somali so: · Kabyle kab: · 100+ Bambala bm: · Ewe ee: · Oromo om: · Tigrinya ti: · Zulu zu: · Tsonga ts: · Venda ve: · Xhosa xh: 1+ Kinyarwanda rw: · Sotho st:  · Twi tw:  · Akan ak:  · Fula ff:  · Swati ss:  · Tswana tn:  · Kikuyu ki: · Shona sn: · Tumbuka tum: · Chichewa ny: · Sango sg: · Kirundi rn: · Hausa lg: · Herero hz: · Afar aa: · Ndonga ng: · Kwanyama kj:

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