LAGOS – The Yoruba Wikipedia readership level has climbed to 25,217,471 views in 2023, statistics obtained from the platform have said.
The over 25 million views have, however, made the Yoruba Wikipedia the most read Nigerian language and the most visited website in the Yoruba race.
This milestone could be attributed to the immense contributions of the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group and other volunteer members of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
The statistics revealed that the Yoruba Wikipedia readership has been growing gradually from 2015 till date.
According to the statistics, in 2015, the Yoruba Wikipedia was viewed and read 6,878,222 times.
As of 2019, the readership had increased to 12,824,420.
This could be attributed to the contributions of this group of editors prior to their recognition.
The readership level of Yoruba Wikipedia continued the growth trajectory 15,623,531 in 2020, followed by 16,931,921 in 2021 and 20,330,113 in 2022.
This milestone could be attributed to the immense contributions of the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group and other volunteer members of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
The group has implemented several strategic projects to create awareness for Yoruba Wikipedia.
This includes a radio program on Bond FM (92.9 F.M) and Radio Lagos (107.5 FM).
The Yoruba Wikimedians User Group has also collaborated with Mr. Macaroni, a multi-award-winning Nigerian comic skit maker and actor with millions of followers on various social media, to produce a short comic skit to promote the Yoruba language on Wikipedia.
These efforts, among others, have helped to increase
the traffic and readership level of Yoruba Wikipedia.
As of February 15, 2024, Yoruba Wikipedia has a total of 33,745 articles and 110 active editors.
According to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, “the closest thing we have to a Prime Directive” is
to “imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of
all human knowledge.
Wales has described Wikipedia as “an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language.”
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and the seventh most visited website on the internet.
The encyclopedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. Its contents are written by a
community of volunteers across the world who are known as “Wikipedians” or “editors.”
The English-language Wikipedia, which is the most popular language version of Wikipedia, has
more than six million articles, and Wikipedia exists in more than 300 languages, including Yoruba.
The Yoruba language version of Wikipedia is called “Yoruba Wikipedia”, and its domain name is “yo.wikipedia.org.”
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