Italian Wikipedia

Italian Wikipedia
Screenshot
Main page of the Italian Wikipedia in April 2021
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inItalian
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byItalian-language Wikipedia community
URLit.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched10 May 2001 (2001-05-10)
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike
4.0
(most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

The Italian Wikipedia (Italian: Wikipedia in italiano) is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on 10 May 2001, and first edited on 11 June 2001. As of 18 June 2025, it has 1,922,884 articles and more than 2,650,888 registered accounts. It is the 9th-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles (after the English, Swedish, German, Dutch, French, Cebuano, Russian, and Spanish editions).