The project was started on 16 November 2001 and it was the 11th Wikipedia to be created.

[1] In December 2016 it was the 84th largest Wikipedia by number of articles.

[2] Apart from South Africa and Namibia, the Afrikaans Wikipedia is used and maintained by users in Europe, North America and Oceania.

In the period of time between 1 July 2009 and 30 September 2013, the Afrikaans Wikipedia was visited the most by South Africa (64.0%)

[3] 0.1% of all German, 0.3% of all Belgian and 24.4% of all South African edits take place on the Afrikaans Wikipedia.