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Afrikaans Wikipedia
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The Afrikaans Wikipedia (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Wikipedia) 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 17 August 2025, it has 126,007 articles and is the 69th-largest Wikipedia.
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Apart from South Africa and Namibia, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used and maintained by users in Europe, North America and Oceania.
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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.[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.
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According to statistics,[4] the following milestones were reached by the Afrikaans Wikipedia:
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