Swahili Wikipedia

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Swahili Wikipedia

Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Swahili
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	sw.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional

The Swahili Wikipedia (Swahili: Wikipedia ya Kiswahili) is the Swahili language edition of Wikipedia. It is the largest edition of Wikipedia in a Niger–Congo or Nilo-Saharan language, followed by the Yoruba Wikipedia.^[1]

It was mentioned on 27 August 2006, in International Herald Tribune and New York Newsday articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions.^[2] In 2009, Google sponsored the creation of articles in the Swahili Wikipedia.^[3] On 20 June 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of November 2024, it has about 87,000 articles, making it the 81st-largest Wikipedia.^[4]

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.