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German Wikipedia
Screenshot
Homepage of the German Wikipedia (December 2010)
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available in
German
Owner
Wikimedia Foundation
Editor
German-language Wikipedia community
URL
de.wikipedia.org
Commercial
No
Registration
Optional
Launched
16 March 2001; 23 years ago (2001-03-16)
The German Wikipedia (German: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.
Founded on March 16, 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia (after the English Wikipedia). It has 2,901,841 articles, making it the third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles as of 2023[update] just behind the English Wikipedia and the mostly bot-generated Cebuano Wikipedia.[1][2][3] It has the second-largest number of edits behind the English Wikipedia[3] and over 260,000 disambiguation pages.[4] On November 7, 2011 German Wikipedia became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits.
The German Wikipedia is criticized because of several ongoing political manipulations by paid editors who overwhelm a small number of administrators.[5][6][7]
^Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics. Retrieved 12 April 2009.
^Jimmy Wales [Wikipedia-l] Alternative language Wikipedias, 16 March 2001
^ abList of Wikipedias/Table meta.wikimedia.org, Statistics
^"Kategorie:Begriffsklärung". German Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
^"Absolut diskret: So entlarvt Böhmermann Wikipedia-Manipulationen". BR24 (in German). 3 September 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
^"Nach Kritik: DFB entschuldigt sich wegen geändertem Wikipedia-Artikel". www.fr.de (in German). 23 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
^Lobe, Adrian (25 June 2019). "Gekaufte Wahrheiten auf Wikipedia". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 22 January 2022.
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