Afrikaans Wikipedia


The Afrikaans Wikipedia is the Afrikaans edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. This Wikipedia was created on 16 November 2001 and it was the 16th Wikipedia to be created, meaning among the first. In December 2016 it was the 84th largest Wikipedia by number of articles. As of, it has articles and is the -largest Wikipedia.
Apart from South Africa and Namibia, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used and maintained by users in Europe, North America and Oceania.
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Visits and edits

The Afrikaans Wikipedia makes up 0.008% of all Wikipedia searches. In the period of time between 1 July 2009 and 30 September 2013, the Afrikaans Wikipedia was visited the most by







The Afrikaans Wikipedia makes up 2.2% of all searches in South Africa, after the 92.7% of the English Wikipedia. In Namibia, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used 1.2% of the time, after the English, German and Portuguese Wikipedias.
0.1% of all German, 0.3% of all Belgian and 24.4% of all South African edits take place on the Afrikaans Wikipedia. Netherlands and Belgium's involvement in the Afrikaans Wikipedia is most likely due to the language relationship between Afrikaans and Dutch.

Milestones

According to statistics, the following milestones were reached by the Afrikaans Wikipedia:


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Number of articlesDate
First articleNovember 2001
100 articlesApril 2003
500 articlesNovember 2003
1 000 articlesJanuary 2004
2 500 articlesMarch 2004
5 000 articlesMarch 2006
9 000 articles29 December 2007
10 000 articlesJune 2008
15 000 articles7 May 2010
20 000 articles11 November 2011
25 000 articles27 November 2012
28 000 articles7 August 2013
30 000 articles21 January 2014
31 000 articles14 April 2014
32 000 articles5 July 2014
33 000 articles14 September 2014
34 000 articles4 January 2015
35 000 articles5 April 2015
36 000 articles16 July 2015
37 000 articles13 September 2015
38 000 articles17 December 2015
39 000 articles28 February 2016
40 000 articles5 May 2016
41 000 articles8 August 2016
42 000 articles14 October 2016
43 000 articles14 December 2016
44 000 articles5 March 2017
45 000 articles28 May 2017
46 000 articles17 July 2017
47 000 articles20 September 2017
48 000 articles18 December 2017
49 000 articles28 February 2018
50 000 articles15 June 2018
55 000 articles30 August 2018
60 000 articles24 September 2018
65 000 articles5 November 2018
70 000 articles6 February 2019
75 000 articles10 March 2019
80 000 articles1 June 2019
85 000 articles11 October 2019
90 000 articles21 April 2020
95 000 articles27 November 2020
100 000 articles8 September 2021
105 000 articles19 October 2022
110 000 articles13 August 2023
115 000 articles29 February 2024
120 000 articles18 November 2024
121 000 articles31 December 2024