User:PK2/French Wikipedia
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The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001,[1] and has 2,610,387 articles as of 8 May 2024, making it the fifth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English-, Cebuano-, Swedish- and German-language editions,[2] and the largest Wikipedia edition in a Romance language. It has the third-largest number of edits. It was also the third edition, after the English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia, to exceed 1 million encyclopedia articles; this occurred on 23 September 2010,[1] while it reached 2 million articles on 8 July 2018. In April 2016, the project had 4657 active editors who made at least five edits in that month.
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia |
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Available in | French |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | fr |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Users | 4,920,000 users, 146 administrators as of 8 May 2024 |
Launched | 23 March 2001; 23 years ago (2001-03-23) |
As of June 2014[update], Wikipedia has an Alexa ranking of 6 and 5.06% of those visits are to the French-language edition.[3] As of May 2024, there are 4,920,000 users, 146 admins and 71,671 files on the French Wikipedia.[4]
On 2 December 2014, the French-language Wikipedia encyclopedia became the 3rd[5] linguistic edition by number of registered users since its creation, overtaking for the first time the German edition, with 2,022,504 registered users,[6][7] behind the English (23,300,456)[8] and Spanish (3,401,493)[9] language editions.
Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is available as a wiki at fr.wikipedia.org
, where it is largely editable by most of its visitors. Several ways to consult the encyclopedia exist, such as mirror websites, smartphone applications or a dedicated electronic device.