:Swahili Wikipedia

{{Short description|Swahili-language edition of Wikipedia}}

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{{Expand Swahili|Wikipedia ya Kiswahili|date=March 2022}}

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| name = Swahili Wikipedia

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| url = [http://sw.wikipedia.org/ sw.wikipedia.org]

| commercial = No

| type = Internet encyclopedia project

| language = Swahili

| registration = Optional

| owner = Wikimedia Foundation

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| content_license = {{nobr|Creative Commons Attribution/
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The Swahili Wikipedia ({{langx|sw| 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.{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_language_group|title=List of Wikipedias by language group|work=wikimedia.org}}

It was mentioned on 27 August 2006, in International Herald Tribune and New York Newsday articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions.[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/technology/27iht-wiki.2604689.html Building Wikipedia in African languages], by Noam Cohen, International Herald Tribune, August 27, 2006. In 2009, Google sponsored the creation of articles in the Swahili Wikipedia.{{Cite web|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/technology/25link.html?_r=0|title = Hungry for New Content, Google Tries to Grow Its Own in Africa|date = January 24, 2010|access-date = October 14, 2014|website = The New York Times }} On 20 June 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, it has about {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|sw}} round -3}}}} articles, making it the {{Ordinal|{{Wikipedia rank by size|sw}}}}-largest Wikipedia.{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias|title=List of Wikipedias|work=wikimedia.org}}

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.

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Number of user accounts	Number of articles	Number of files	Number of administrators
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