Afrikaans Wikipedia

Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Afrikaans
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	af.wikipedia.org
Registration	Optional
Launched	16 November 2001; 22 years ago (2001-11-16)

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 January 2024, it was the largest African language and 69th-largest language version of Wikipedia.^[2]

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: