Afrikaans Wikipedia

Also known as afwiki, afwp, afwikipedia, af.wikipedia.org

Afrikaans-language edition of Wikipedia

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Afrikaans Wikipedia is the version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia written in Afrikaans, a language spoken primarily in South Africa and Namibia. It allows speakers of Afrikaans to access and contribute to Wikipedia's collection of knowledge in their native language.

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Afrikaanse Wikipedia
Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation
Operator: Wikimedia Foundation
Official website: af.wikipedia.org
Image: Voorblad Afrikaanse Wikipedia.jpg

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product or material produced: online encyclopedia
Commons category: Afrikaans Wikipedia
language of work or name: Afrikaans
inception: 2001-11-16
copyright license: GNU Free Documentation License
writing system: Latin script
Wikimedia language code: af
number of records: 128244
API endpoint URL: af.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
DuckDuckGo bang: afwiki
random page URL: af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spesiaal:Lukraak

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Encyclopedic overview

An infographic illustrating key figures about Afrikaans Wikipedia when it was made in July 2015 and displayed at Wikimania in Mexico City. 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. In December 2016 it was the 84th largest Wikipedia by number of articles. As of 1 June 2026, it has 129,191 articles and is the 69th-largest Wikipedia.

Apart from South Africa and Namibia, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used and maintained by users in Europe, North America and Oceania.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afrikaans Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.