German Wikipedia
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 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL). Media licensing varies. |
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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 3,025,492 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. It has the second-largest number of edits and of active users behind the English Wikipedia. On 7 November 2011, the German Wikipedia became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits.