Afrikaans Wikipedia

The Afrikaans Wikipedia (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Wikipedia) is an Afrikaans edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. The project was started on 16 November 2001, and was the 11th Wikipedia to be created.[1] In December 2016 it was the 84th largest Wikipedia by number of articles. Apart from South Africa and Namibia, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used and maintained by users in Europe, North America and Oceania. As of September 2020 it was the largest African language and 70th-largest language version of Wikipedia.[2]

Afrikaans Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inAfrikaans
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLaf.wikipedia.org
RegistrationOptional
A infographic illustrating key figures about Afrikaans Wikipedia when it was made in July 2015 and displayed at Wikimania in Mexico City.

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

 South Africa (64.0%)
 USA (5.5%)
 Germany (4.1%)
 World (26.4%)

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 (85.3%), German (5.7%) and Portuguese (1.5%) Wikipedias.[3]

0.1% of all German, 0.3% of all Belgian and 24.4% of all South African edits take place on the Afrikaans Wikipedia.[4] 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,[5] the following milestones were reached by the Afrikaans Wikipedia:

Graph of the number of articles on the Afrikaans Wikipedia
Number of articles Date
First articleNovember 2001
50 articlesAugust 2002
100 articlesApril 2003
250 articlesAugust 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
16 000 articlesAugust 2010
17 000 articles10 February 2011
18 000 articles7 June 2011
19 000 articles3 September 2011
20 000 articles11 November 2011
21 000 articles27 January 2012
22 000 articles3 April 2012
23 000 articles20 June 2012
24 000 articles4 September 2012
25 000 articles27 November 2012
26 000 articles23 February 2013
27 000 articles29 May 2013
28 000 articles7 August 2013
29 000 articles14 November 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
68 000 articles Dec 2018
93 818 articles 22 September 2020

References
  1. "Wikipedia:2001", English-language Wikipedia (16 December 2006)
  2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#10_000+_articles. Accessed 18 September 2020.
  3. Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report – Wikipedia Page Views Per Country – Breakdown. Stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved on 23 November 2013.
  4. Africa. Stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved on 23 November 2013.
  5. Wikipedia Statistics Afrikaans. stats.wikimedia.org
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