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Wolof Wikipedia
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The Wolof Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Wolof language. It currently has 1,698 articles.
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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Available in | Wolof language |
Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | wo |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 2005; 19 years ago (2005) |
Content license | Creative Commons ShareAlike License 3.0 |
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The Wikipedia was started in the beginning of 2005, along with the Bambara Wikipedia and the Fula Wikipedia. Kasper Souren, a Dutchman who worked with Geekcorps, wrote in a report to an open source conference that until 2006 "not much happened" on the Wolof Wikipedia.[1] Up until that year, many small articles with very little content were posted.
In April 2007 Ibrahima Fall (username Ibou), a Senegalese student living in Italy, began adding substantial content to the Wolof Wikipedia.[1] It had 500 articles in November 2007, 543 articles in June 2008, and 1028 articles in August 2015.[1][2]