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Zulu Wikipedia

Edition of the free-content encyclopedia

Zulu Wikipedia

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

Zulu edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Zulu Wikipedia is the Zulu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. Started in November 2003, it rose to 186 articles as of May 13, 2009, and to 766 on April 25, 2016, making it the 247th largest Wikipedia language edition (down from 221st in the previous date).^[1]

It has 11,328 articles as of April 2024 and 64 active registered users.

History

Although it was the third African-language Wikipedia to reach 100 articles,^[2] progress has been slow, and it has been surpassed by numerous other African languages.

As Zulu is mostly mutually intelligible with Xhosa, both of which are Nguni languages, it is possible for articles in the Zulu edition to be easily translated into Xhosa for the Xhosa Wikipedia. Similar trans-wiki efforts have been made for Scandinavian-language editions, such as the Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish through Wikimedia's Skanwiki collaboration tool.

In January 2012, the Zulu Wikipedia was proposed for closing. The proposal was rejected in March 2012.^[3]

References

^ List of Wikipedias
^ "IOL SciTech". Archived from the original on 2008-01-15. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
^ Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Zulu Wikipedia