Xhosa Wikipedia

The Xhosa Wikipedia is the Xhosa language edition of Wikipedia. It has 1,050 articles, which as of 25 August 2018 makes it the 260th largest Wikipedia.[1]

Xhosa Wikipedia
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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inXhosa language
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLxh.wikipedia.org
CommercialCharitable
RegistrationOptional
Content license
Creative Commons ShareAlike License 3.0

The Xhosa edition of Wikipedia was started in June 2003.[2] Its low number of articles has led to proposals to close it in 2008[3] and 2013[4] (both rejected).

As Xhosa is mutually intelligible with Zulu, 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.

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References

Further reading

  • Deumert, Ana (2014). Sociolinguistics and Mobile Communication. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 86–88. ISBN 9780748655779. Retrieved 12 June 2017. - notes on non-Xhosa speakers' attempts to edit Xhosa Wikipedia


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