Afrikaans Wikipedia

Afrikaans Wikipedia

Screenshot Main Page of the Afrikaans Wikipedia in November 2024
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Afrikaans
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	af.wikipedia.org
Registration	Optional
Launched	16 November 2001 (2001-11-16)

An infographic illustrating key figures about Afrikaans Wikipedia when it was made in July 2015 and displayed at Wikimania in Mexico City.

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. 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 December 2024, it was the largest African language and 69th-largest language version of Wikipedia.

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.

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

Graph of the number of articles on the Afrikaans Wikipedia

Number of articles	Date
First article	November 2001
100 articles	April 2003
500 articles	November 2003
1 000 articles	January 2004
2 500 articles	March 2004
5 000 articles	March 2006
9 000 articles	29 December 2007
10 000 articles	June 2008
15 000 articles	7 May 2010
20 000 articles	11 November 2011
25 000 articles	27 November 2012
28 000 articles	7 August 2013
30 000 articles	21 January 2014
31 000 articles	14 April 2014
32 000 articles	5 July 2014
33 000 articles	14 September 2014
34 000 articles	4 January 2015
35 000 articles	5 April 2015
36 000 articles	16 July 2015
37 000 articles	13 September 2015
38 000 articles	17 December 2015
39 000 articles	28 February 2016
40 000 articles	5 May 2016
41 000 articles	8 August 2016
42 000 articles	14 October 2016
43 000 articles	14 December 2016
44 000 articles	5 March 2017
45 000 articles	28 May 2017
46 000 articles	17 July 2017
47 000 articles	20 September 2017
48 000 articles	18 December 2017
49 000 articles	28 February 2018
50 000 articles	15 June 2018
55 000 articles	30 August 2018
60 000 articles	24 September 2018
65 000 articles	5 November 2018
70 000 articles	6 February 2019
75 000 articles	10 March 2019
80 000 articles	1 June 2019
85 000 articles	11 October 2019
90 000 articles	21 April 2020
95 000 articles	27 November 2020
100 000 articles	8 September 2021
101 000 articles	15 November 2021
102 000 articles	11 February 2022
103 000 articles	29 April 2022
104 000 articles	23 July 2022
105 000 articles	19 October 2022
106 000 articles	3 December 2022
107 000 articles	14 March 2023
108 000 articles	13 May 2023
109 000 articles	14 July 2023

External links

• (in Afrikaans) Afrikaans Wikipedia
• (in Afrikaans) Afrikaans Wikipedia mobile version (homepage not yet configured)
• Statistics for Afrikaans Wikipedia by Erik Zachte