[AfricanLanguages] Wikipedia in African languages

Don Osborn Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:30:58 -0700

Wikipedia, the multilingual online encyclopedia, has a number of African language sections that could use more contributions. A list is appended below FYI. The complete list of Wikipedia sections is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias (NB- if you want to see a page *in* a language, as opposed to *about* it in English, you will need to click on the 2 or 3 letter code in the "Wiki" column).

For those not familiar with Wikipedia or the wiki concept, it is a technology that permits readers to contribute directly to the contents of the site. More info is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents

Here is the list of current Wikipedia pages in African languages (the last few have practically nothing on them yet).

Wikipedia in African languages (as of 24 July 2006) by rank of number of pages:
(sites with > 1000 articles)

35. Arabic http://ar.wikipedia.org/

54. Afrikaans http://af.wiktionary.org/

(siites with > 100 articles)

104. Swahili http://sw.wikipedia.org/

123. Amharic http://am.wikipedia.org/

133. Wolof http://wo.wikipedia.org/

135. Lingala http://ln.wikipedia.org/

137. Malagasy http://mg.wikipedia.org/

147. Kongo http://kg.wikipedia.org/

149. Bambara http://bm.wikipedia.org/