Swahili Wikipedia

Infobox website
name = Swahili Wikipedia



caption =
url = http://sw.wikipedia.org/
commercial = No
location = Miami, Florida
type = Internet encyclopedia project
language = Swahili
registration = Optional
owner = Wikimedia Foundation
author =

Swahili Wikipedia ("Wikipedia KiSwahili") is the Swahili language edition of Wikipedia. As of September 28, 2007, the Swahili Wikipedia is composed of 6,023 articles and is the 89th largest Wikipedia. It is also currently one of the three 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 was mentioned in an August 27, 2006 "International Herald Tribune" article on the struggles of Wikipedia language editions which were directed towards languages which enjoy lesser first-language demographics than multinationally spoken languages such as English and French. [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/27/business/wiki.php "Building Wikipedia in African languages"] , by Noam Cohen, International Herald Tribune, August 27, 2006.]

Milestones

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

ee also

* Yoruba Wikipedia
* Lingala Wikipedia
* Zulu Wikipedia

References

External links

*Swahili Wikipedia
* [http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaSW.htm Statistics for Swahili Wikipedia] by Erik Zachte