List of Wikipedias

Map of the most popular edition of Wikipedia by country
Most popular edition of Wikipedia by country. In grayed-out countries, the "national-language" edition is usually the most popular, but there are exceptions: for example, Afghanistan has Persian Wikipedia as the most popular (there is no Dari Wikipedia).

Wikipedia is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online encyclopedia edited and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, started on January 15th 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan editions were created on circa 16 March,[1] the French edition was created on 23 March,[2] and the Swedish edition was created on 23 May.[3] As of November 2024, Wikipedia articles have been created in 352 editions, with 339 currently active and 13 closed.[4]

The Meta-Wiki language committee manages policies on creating new Wikimedia projects. To be eligible, a language must have a valid ISO 639 code, be "sufficiently unique", and have a "sufficient number of fluent users".[5]

  1. ^ Wales, Jimmy (16 March 2001). "[Wikipedia-l] Alternative language wikipedias". Wikipedia-L (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 20 June 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. ^ Noisette, Thierry (24 September 2010). "Wikipédia en français dépasse le million d'articles" [French Wikipedia exceeds one million articles]. ZDNET France (in French). Red Ventures. Retrieved 21 December 2020. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie collaborative libre, fêtera ses dix ans en janvier 2011, et a débuté le 23 mars 2001 en version française, mais dès ce jeudi 23 septembre, à neuf ans et demi exactement, la Wikipédia francophone a enregistré officiellement le cap du million d'articles. (Wikipedia, the free collaborative encyclopedia, will celebrate its tenth anniversary in January 2011. It started on March 23, 2001 in its French version, but as of this Thursday, September 23, at exactly nine and a half years old, the French-language Wikipedia has officially reached the one million article mark.)
  3. ^ "History of HomePage". Swedish Wikipedia. Archived from the original on 8 June 2001. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab - Wikimedia Commons". Wikimedia Commons. Archived from the original on 10 September 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Language proposal policy, revision 21811318". Meta-Wiki. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.