German Wikipedia

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The German Wikipedia Mainpage
Homepage of the German Wikipedia (December 2010)
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inGerman
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
EditorGerman-language Wikipedia community
URLde.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched16 March 2001 (2001-03-16)
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
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(most text also dual-licensed under GFDL).
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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 edition (after the English Wikipedia). It has 3,017,170 articles, making it the third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles as of 2024, behind the English Wikipedia and the mostly bot-generated Cebuano Wikipedia.[1][2][3] It has the second-largest number of edits and of active users behind the English Wikipedia.[1] On 7 November 2011, the German Wikipedia became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits.

  1. ^ a b Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  2. ^ Jimmy Wales [Wikipedia-l] Alternative language Wikipedias, 16 March 2001
  3. ^ List of Wikipedias/Table meta.wikimedia.org, Statistics

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