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Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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Available in | French |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | fr |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 23 March 2001 |
The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia.[1] It has 2,631,328 articles as of 25 August 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English, Cebuano, and German-language editions, and is the largest Wikipedia edition in a Romance language. It has the third-most edits, and ranks 6th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It was also the third edition, after the English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia, to exceed 1 million articles: this occurred on 23 September 2010.[1] In April 2016, the project had 4657 active editors who made at least five edits in that month.
In 2008, the French encyclopaedia Quid cancelled its 2008 edition, citing falling sales on competition from the French edition of Wikipedia.[2]
As of August 2024, there are 4,992,000 users, 146 admins and 72038 files on the French Wikipedia.[3]
On 2 December 2014, the French-language Wikipedia encyclopedia became the 3rd[4] linguistic edition by number of registered users since its creation, overtaking for the first time the German edition, with 2,022,504 registered users,[5][6] behind the English (23,300,456)[7] and Spanish (3,401,493)[8] language editions.