page_title: Afrikaans Wikipedia
section_title: Milestones
hierarchical_section_title: Afrikaans Wikipedia / Milestones
context_page_description: The Afrikaans Wikipedia is an Afrikaans edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. 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 and Namibia, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used and maintained by users in Europe, North America and Oceania. As of May 2013, it was the second-largest African language Wikipedia, after Malagasy.
context_section_description: According to statistics, the following milestones were reached by the Afrikaans Wikipedia:
caption: Graph of the number of articles on the Afrikaans Wikipedia