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Zulu Wikipedia

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| Internet encyclopedia project
Available in| Zulu
Owner| Wikimedia Foundation
URL| zu.wikipedia.org
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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 10,587 articles as of October 2022 and 31 active registered users.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History[edit]

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]

## See also[edit]

* Afrikaans Wikipedia
* Lingala Wikipedia
* Somali Wikipedia
* Swahili Wikipedia
* Tsonga Wikipedia
* Yoruba Wikipedia
* Xhosa Wikipedia

## References[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* (in Zulu) Zulu Wikipedia
* (in Zulu) Zulu Wikipedia mobile version (not fully supported)
* Statistics for Zulu Wikipedia by Erik Zachte

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* Serbo-Croatian
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* Azerbaijani
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* Wolof
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