German Wikipedia

The German Wikipedia (German: [Deutschsprachige Wikipedia] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is the German language edition of Wikipedia. Founded 16 March 2001, it is the second-oldest and the first non-English-language Wikipedia.

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Available in	German
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	German wiki community
Website	de.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No

By count of articles, it is the third largest Wikipedia, after the English Wikipedia and the Cebuano Wikipedia. As of January 2026, it has about articles.

List of countries wikipedia distributions

• German Wikipedia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Switzerland

German Wikipedia Media

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  Main Page of the German Wikipedia in May 2004

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  Zahl der Artikel in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia über die Zeit

• Active editors on German Wikipedia over time.png

  Active editors from 2003–2018; the top curve shows editors with more than five edits per month on content pages.

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  Number of registered users between 2001 and May 2006

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  Daily requests for deletion, de facto deleted articles and the ratio of these two values

• Fünf Jahre Wikipedia IMG 0377.JPG

  The exhibition, "Five Years of Wikipedia", at the University of Göttingen library, March 2006

• The observation decks and spire of the Donauturm

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  DVD label of German off-line Wikipedia publication

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  The 2005 DVD/book version of German Wikipedia

Other websites

• German Wikipedia's Main page (in German)