Zulu Wikipedia

Zulu Wikipedia

Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Zulu
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	zu.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

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 13 May 2009, and to 766 on 25 April 2016, making it the 247th largest Wikipedia language edition (down from 221st in the previous date).^[1]

It has 11,583 articles as of January 2025 and 33 active registered users.

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]

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