The Wikipedia was started in the beginning of 2005, along with the Bambara Wikipedia and the Fula (Peul) 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] The Wikipedia had 543 articles in June 2008.[1] That year many small articles with very little content were posted. In April 2007 Ibou, a Senegalese student living in Italy, began adding substantial content to that Wikipedia.[1] The Wolof Wikipedia had 500 articles in November 2007. The Wikipedia had 543 articles in June 2008.[1]