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Swahili Wikipedia

Swahili-language edition of Wikipedia

Field	Value
name	Swahili Wikipedia
logo	Wikipedia-logo-sw.png
logo_size	140px
url	sw.wikipedia.org
commercial	No
type	Internet encyclopedia project
language	Swahili
registration	Optional
owner	Wikimedia Foundation
content_license	(most text also dual-licensed under GFDL).
Media licensing varies.

Media licensing varies. 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.

Number of user accounts	Number of articles	Number of files	Number of administrators

References

"List of Wikipedias by language group". wikimedia.org.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/technology/27iht-wiki.2604689.html ''Building Wikipedia in African languages''], by Noam Cohen, [[International Herald Tribune]], August 27, 2006.
(January 24, 2010). "Hungry for New Content, Google Tries to Grow Its Own in Africa".
"List of Wikipedias". wikimedia.org.

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