German Wikipedia

**German Wikipedia**
*Deutschsprachige Wikipedia*

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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	German
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	German wiki community
URL	de.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No

The German Wikipedia (German: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German language edition of Wikipedia. Founded 16 March 2001, it is the second-oldest and the first non-English-language Wikipedia.

By count of articles, it is the third largest Wikipedia, after the English Wikipedia and the Cebuano Wikipedia. As of October 2024, it has about 2,946,000 articles.^[1]

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German Wikipedia

References

↑ Special:Statistics on the German Wikipedia – Retrieved July 19, 2017

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v t e List of Wikipedias by article count
6,000,000+	English (`en`) (6,889,420) Cebuano (`ceb`)
2,000,000+	German (`de`) French (`fr`) Swedish (`sv`) Dutch (`nl`)
1,000,000+	Arabic (`ar`) Chinese (`zh`) Egyptian Arabic (`arz`) Italian (`it`) Japanese (`ja`) Persian (`fa`) Polish (`pl`) Portuguese (`pt`) Russian (`ru`) Spanish (`es`) Ukrainian (`uk`) Vietnamese (`vi`) Waray (`war`)
200,000 –999,999	Armenian (`hy`) Azerbaijani (`az`) Basque (`eu`) Belarusian (`be`) Bulgarian (`bg`) Catalan (`ca`) Chechen (`ce`) Croatian (`hr`) Czech (`cs`) Danish (`da`) Esperanto (`eo`) Estonian (`et`) Finnish (`fi`) Galician (`ga`) Greek (`el`) Hebrew (`he`) Hungarian (`hu`) Indonesian (`id`) Kazakh (`kk`) Korean (`ko`) Lithuanian (`lt`) Malay (`ms`) Minangkabau (`min`) Norwegian (Bokmål) (`no`) Romanian (`ro`) Serbian (`sr`) Serbo-Croatian (`sh`) Simple English (`simple`) Slovak (`sk`) Southern Min (`zh-min-nan`) Tatar (`tt`) Turkish (`tr`) Urdu (`ur`) Uzbek (`uz`) Welsh (`cy`)
50,000 –199,999	Afrikaans (`af`) Albanian (`sq`) Belarusian (Taraškievica) (`be-tarask`) Bengali (`bn`) Bosnian (`bs`) Breton (`br`) Cantonese (`zh-yue`) Chuvash (`cv`) Georgian (`ka`) Haitian Creole (`ht`) Hindi (`hi`) Icelandic (`is`) Irish (`ga`) Javanese (`jv`) Latin (`la`) Latvian (`lv`) Luxembourgish (`lb`) Macedonian (`mk`) Malagasy (`mg`) Malayalam (`ml`) Marathi (`mr`) Nepal Bhasa (`new`) Norwegian (Nynorsk) (`nn`) Occitan (`oc`) Piedmontese (`pms`) Punjabi (`pa`) Silesian (`szl`) Slovene (`sl`) Sundanese (`su`) Swahili (`sw`) Tamil (`ta`) Telugu (`te`) Thai (`th`) West Frisian (`fy`) Western Punjabi (`pnb`)
>50,000	Alemannic (`als`) Aragonese (`an`) Dutch Low Saxon (`nds-nl`) Extremaduran (`ext`) Kannada (`kn`) Ligurian (`lij`) Meitei (`mni`) Mongolian (`mn`) Neapolitan (`nap`) Pashto (`ps`) Sanskrit (`sa`) Scots (`sco`) Sicilian (`scn`) Sindhi (`sd`) Tagalog (`tl`) Volapük (`vo`) Yiddish (`yi`) Zhuang (`za`)
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