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The Afrikaans Wikipedia ( af, Afrikaanse Wikipedia) is an
Afrikaans Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gra ...
edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia
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. 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 South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
and
Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used and maintained by users in
Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...
, North America and
Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a geographical region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Spanning the Eastern and Western hemispheres, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of and a population of around 44.5 million ...
. As of , it was the largest
African language The languages of Africa are divided into several major language families: * Niger–Congo or perhaps Atlantic–Congo languages (includes Bantu and non-Bantu, and possibly Mande and others) are spoken in West, Central, Southeast and Souther ...
and -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 (64.0%)
(5.5%)
(4.1%)
(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,Wikipedia Statistics Afrikaans
stats.wikimedia.org the following milestones were reached by the Afrikaans Wikipedia:
ImageSize = width:130 height:1400 PlotArea = width:35 height:1300 left:50 bottom:40 AlignBars = early Colors = id:linecolor value:rgb(0.62,0.62,0.94) id:rg value:red DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:16/11/2001 till:30/06/2022 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:2002 PlotData= from:16/11/2001 till:end color:rg at:16/12/2001 shift:(60,0) align:right text:Start at:01/08/2002 shift:(60,0) align:right text:50 at:01/04/2003 shift:(60,0) align:right text:100 at:01/08/2003 shift:(60,0) align:right text:250 at:01/11/2003 shift:(60,0) align:right text:500 at:01/01/2004 shift:(60,0) align:right text:1 000 at:01/03/2004 shift:(60,0) align:right text:2 000 at:01/03/2006 shift:(60,0) align:right text:5 000 at:29/12/2007 shift:(60,0) align:right text:9 000 at:01/06/2008 shift:(60,0) align:right text:10 000 at:01/05/2010 shift:(60,0) align:right text:15 000 at:01/08/2010 shift:(60,0) align:right text:16 000 at:10/02/2011 shift:(60,0) align:right text:17 000 at:07/06/2011 shift:(60,0) align:right text:18 000 at:11/11/2011 shift:(60,0) align:right text:20 000 at:03/04/2012 shift:(60,0) align:right text:22 000 at:04/09/2012 shift:(60,0) align:right text:24 000 at:23/02/2013 shift:(60,0) align:right text:26 000 at:07/08/2013 shift:(60,0) align:right text:28 000 at:21/01/2014 shift:(60,0) align:right text:30 000 at:05/07/2014 shift:(60,0) align:right text:32 000 at:04/01/2015 shift:(60,0) align:right text:34 000 at:16/07/2015 shift:(60,0) align:right text:36 000 at:17/12/2015 shift:(60,0) align:right text:38 000 at:05/05/2016 shift:(60,0) align:right text:40 000 at:14/10/2016 shift:(60,0) align:right text:42 000 at:05/03/2017 shift:(60,0) align:right text:44 000 at:17/07/2017 shift:(60,0) align:right text:46 000 at:18/12/2017 shift:(60,0) align:right text:48 000 at:15/06/2018 shift:(60,0) align:right text:50 000 at:24/09/2018 shift:(60,0) align:right text:60 000 at:06/02/2019 shift:(60,0) align:right text:70 000 at:01/06/2019 shift:(60,0) align:right text:80 000 at:11/10/2019 shift:(60,0) align:right text:85 000 at:21/01/2020 shift:(60,0) align:right text:88 000 at:21/04/2020 shift:(60,0) align:right text:90 000 at:28/08/2020 shift:(60,0) align:right text:93 000 at:27/11/2020 shift:(60,0) align:right text:95 000 at:03/03/2021 shift:(60,0) align:right text:97 000 at:03/07/2021 shift:(60,0) align:right text:99 000 at:08/09/2021 shift:(60,0) align:right text:100 000 at:11/02/2022 shift:(60,0) align:right text:102 000 at:29/04/2022 shift:(60,0) align:right text:103 000


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