Swahili Wikipedia


The Swahili Wikipedia is the Swahili language edition of Wikipedia. It is the largest edition of Wikipedia in a Niger–Congo language, followed by the Yoruba Wikipedia.
It was mentioned on 27 August 2006, in International Herald Tribune and New York Newsday articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions. In 2009, Google sponsored the creation of articles in the Swahili Wikipedia. On 20 June 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of, it has about articles, making it the -largest Wikipedia.
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.
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