# Afrikaans Wikipedia

The Afrikaans Wikipedia (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Wikipedia) is an Afrikaans edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. The project was started on 16 November 2001 and it was the 11th Wikipedia to be created. In December 2016 it was the 84th largest Wikipedia by number of articles. As of February 2025, the Afrikaans Wikipedia has 121,780 articles and is the 69th largest Wikipedia edition.
Apart from South Africa and Namibia, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used and maintained by users in Europe, North America and Oceania.

## 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
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.
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, the following milestones were reached by the Afrikaans Wikipedia:
| Number of articles | Date |
| First article | November 2001 |
| 100 articles | April 2003 |
| 500 articles | November 2003 |
| 1 000 articles | January 2004 |
| 2 500 articles | March 2004 |
| 5 000 articles | March 2006 |
| 9 000 articles | 29 December 2007 |
| 10 000 articles | June 2008 |
| 15 000 articles | 7 May 2010 |
| 20 000 articles | 11 November 2011 |
| 25 000 articles | 27 November 2012 |
| 28 000 articles | 7 August 2013 |
| 30 000 articles | 21 January 2014 |
| 31 000 articles | 14 April 2014 |
| 32 000 articles | 5 July 2014 |
| 33 000 articles | 14 September 2014 |
| 34 000 articles | 4 January 2015 |
| 35 000 articles | 5 April 2015 |
| 36 000 articles | 16 July 2015 |
| 37 000 articles | 13 September 2015 |
| 38 000 articles | 17 December 2015 |
| 39 000 articles | 28 February 2016 |
| 40 000 articles | 5 May 2016 |
| 41 000 articles | 8 August 2016 |
| 42 000 articles | 14 October 2016 |
| 43 000 articles | 14 December 2016 |
| 44 000 articles | 5 March 2017 |
| 45 000 articles | 28 May 2017 |
| 46 000 articles | 17 July 2017 |
| 47 000 articles | 20 September 2017 |
| 48 000 articles | 18 December 2017 |
| 49 000 articles | 28 February 2018 |
| 50 000 articles | 15 June 2018 |
| 55 000 articles | 30 August 2018 |
| 60 000 articles | 24 September 2018 |
| 65 000 articles | 5 November 2018 |
| 70 000 articles | 6 February 2019 |
| 75 000 articles | 10 March 2019 |
| 80 000 articles | 1 June 2019 |
| 85 000 articles | 11 October 2019 |
| 90 000 articles | 21 April 2020 |
| 95 000 articles | 27 November 2020 |
| 100 000 articles | 8 September 2021 |
| 105 000 articles | 19 October 2022 |
| 110 000 articles | 13 August 2023 |
| 115 000 articles | 29 February 2024 |
| 120 000 articles | 18 November 2024 |
| 121 000 articles | 31 December 2024 |