German Wikipedia

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.

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

By count of articles, it is the third largest Wikipedia, after the English Wikipedia and the Cebuano Wikipedia. As of December 2025, it has about 3,079,000 articles.^[1]

List of countries wikipedia distributions

• German Wikipedia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Switzerland