French Wikipedia

French Wikipedia
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Main page of the French Wikipedia
Main Page of the French Wikipedia in March 2021
Type of site
Online encyclopedia
Available inFrench
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLfr.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched23 March 2001; 23 years ago (2001-03-23)

The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia.[1] It has 2,647,886 articles as of 18 November 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia language version, after the English, Cebuano, and German-language editions, and the largest Wikipedia edition in a Romance language. It has the third-most edits, and ranks 6th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It was also the third edition, after the English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia, to exceed 1 million articles: this occurred on 23 September 2010.[1] In April 2016, the project had 4,657 active editors who made at least five edits in that month.

In 2008, the French encyclopaedia Quid cancelled its 2008 edition, citing falling sales on competition from the French edition of Wikipedia.[2]

As of November 2024, there are 5,052,000 users, 145 admins and 72,527 files on the French Wikipedia.[3]

On 2 December 2014, the French-language Wikipedia encyclopedia became the 3rd[4] linguistic edition by number of registered users since its creation, overtaking for the first time the German edition, with 2,022,504 registered users,[5][6] behind the English (23,300,456)[7] and Spanish (3,401,493)[8] language editions.

  1. ^ a b "Wikipédia en français dépasse le million d'articles". ZDNet France. 23 September 2010.
  2. ^ Litchfield, John. "France's favourite encyclopaedia falls victim to Wikipedia." The Independent. Wednesday 20 February 2008. Retrieved on 26 June 2013.
  3. ^ "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - French". wikimedia.org.
  4. ^ "List of Wikipedias by edits per article". wikimedia.org.
  5. ^ fr:Spécial:Statistiques
  6. ^ de:Spezial:Statistik
  7. ^ Special:Statistics
  8. ^ "Estadísticas". es.wikipedia.org.