Afrikaans Wikipedia
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The Afrikaans Wikipedia (Template:Langx) is the Afrikaans edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. This Wikipedia was created on 16 November 2001 and it was the 16th Wikipedia to be created, meaning among the first.[1] In December 2016 it was the 84th largest Wikipedia by number of articles. As of 5 May 2026, it has Template:NUMBEROF articles and is the Script error: No such module "Ordinal".-largest Wikipedia.
Apart from South Africa and Namibia, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used and maintained by users in Europe, North America and Oceania.
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
File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa (64.0%)
File:Flag of the United States.svg USA (5.5%)
File:Flag of Germany.svg 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.[2]
0.1% of all German, 0.3% of all Belgian and 24.4% of all South African edits take place on the Afrikaans Wikipedia.[3] 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,[4] the following milestones were reached by the Afrikaans Wikipedia:
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| 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 |
| 105 000 articles | 19 October 2022 |
| 110 000 articles | 13 August 2023 |
| 115 000 articles | 29 February 2024 |
| 120 000 articles | 18 November 2024 |
| 121 000 articles | 31 December 2024 |
References
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- ↑ "Wikipedia:2001", English-language Wikipedia (16 December 2006)
- ↑ Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report – Wikipedia Page Views Per Country – Breakdown. Stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved on 23 November 2013.
- ↑ Africa. Stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved on 23 November 2013.
- ↑ Wikipedia Statistics Afrikaans. stats.wikimedia.org
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External links
Template:Sister project Template:Sister project
- Template:In lang Afrikaans Wikipedia
- Template:In lang Afrikaans Wikipedia mobile version (homepage not yet configured)
- Statistics for Afrikaans Wikipedia by Erik Zachte
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