German Wikipedia

German Wikipedia
	Screenshot Main Page of the German Wikipedia in March 2023
Website type	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	German
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Editor	German-language Wikipedia community
Website	de.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Users	5.34 million (as of 14 September 2026)
Launched	16 March 2001
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/; Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL).; Media licensing varies.

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The German Wikipedia (German: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.

Founded on 16 March 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia edition (after the English Wikipedia). It has 3,151,347 articles, making it the third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles as of 2024, behind the English Wikipedia and the mostly bot-generated Cebuano Wikipedia. It has the second-largest number of edits and of active users behind the English Wikipedia. On 7 November 2011, the German Wikipedia became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits.