| Swahili Wikipedia | |
| Url: | sw.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial: | No |
| Type: | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Language: | Swahili |
| Registration: | Optional |
| Owner: | Wikimedia Foundation |
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, it has about articles, making it the -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.