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Screenshot  Homepage of the German Wikipedia (December 2010) | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
|---|---|
| Available in | German |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Editor | German-language Wikipedia community |
| URL | de |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 16 March 2001 |
The German Wikipedia (German: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.
Founded on 16 March 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia (after the English Wikipedia). It has 2,962,589 articles, making it the third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles, as of 2024[update], behind the English Wikipedia and the mostly bot-generated Cebuano Wikipedia.[1][2][3] It has the second-largest number of edits behind the English Wikipedia.[3] On 7 November 2011, the German Wikipedia became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits.
- ^ Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ^ Jimmy Wales [Wikipedia-l] Alternative language Wikipedias, 16 March 2001
- ^ a b List of Wikipedias/Table meta.wikimedia.org, Statistics