[1] It was mentioned on 27 August 2006, in International Herald Tribune and New York Newsday articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions.

[2] In 2009, Google sponsored the creation of articles in the Swahili Wikipedia.

[3] On 20 June 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover.

As of February 2025, it has about 95,000 articles, making it the 76th-largest Wikipedia.

[4] The Swahili Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in Tanzania and Kenya after the English version with respectively 14% and 4% of the visits, as of January 2021.