Afrikaans Wikipedia
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The Afrikaans Wikipedia (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Wikipedia) is an Afrikaans language edition of the Web
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Wikipedia
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. The project was started on 16 November 2001, and was the 11th Wikipedia to be created. As of 12 November 2011, this edition has over 20,000 articles and is the 80th largest Wikipedia by number of articles. Aside from South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

ns and Namibia
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

ns, this Wikipedia is also used and edited by people from overseas countries.

It is the fourth-largest African language Wikipedia, outside of the colonial languages, and was the first African language Wikipedia to pass 10,000 articles.
It has since been surpassed by the Swahili
Swahili Wikipedia
The Swahili Wikipedia is the Swahili language edition of Wikipedia. As of 28 October 2011, the Swahili Wikipedia has over 22,000 articles, making it the 80th-largest Wikipedia. It is also currently one of the only two language editions of Wikipedia in Niger–Congo languages with over 1,000...

, Yoruba, and Malagasy Wikipedia.

On 4 November 2009 the Afrikaans Wikipedia's Main Page was redesigned.

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