The Swahili Wikipedia (Swahili: Wikipedia ya Kiswahili) is the Swahili language edition of Wikipedia. It is the largest edition of Wikipedia in a Niger–Congo or Nilo-Saharan language, followed by the Yoruba Wikipedia.^[1]

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Swahili. (March 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Swahili article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Swahili Wikipedia article at [[:sw:Wikipedia ya Kiswahili]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|sw|Wikipedia ya Kiswahili}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

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Swahili Wikipedia

Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Swahili
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	sw.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional

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It was mentioned on August 27, 2006, in International Herald Tribune and New York Newsday articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions.^[2] In 2009, Google sponsored the creation of articles in the Swahili Wikipedia.^[3] On June 20, 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of April 2024, it has about 80,000 articles, making it the 82nd-largest Wikipedia.^[4]

The Swahili Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in Tanzania and Kenya after the English version with respectively 14% and 4% of the visits, as of January 2021.