French Wikipedia

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Favicon of Wikipedia French Wikipedia
Wikipedia-logo-v2-fr.svg
URL fr.wikipedia.org
Commercial? No
Type of site Internet encyclopedia project
Registration Optional
Available language(s) French
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Launched 23 March 2001

The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia francophone, Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This edition was started in March 2001, and has about 1,389,000 articles as of May 2013, making it the third-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English-language and German-language editions. It was also the third edition, after the English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia, to exceed 1 million encyclopedia articles. In 2008, the French encyclopaedia, Quid, canceled its 2008 edition, citing falling sales on competition from the encyclopedia.[1]

The countries in which the French Wikipedia was the most popular language version of Wikipedia in 2011 are shown in blue. Other countries are shown in yellow.[2]
Origin of edits (2011/04 - 2012/03) Source
France
  
79.3%
Belgium
  
5.9%
Canada
  
4.9%
Switzerland
  
2.5%
United States
  
1.3%
Morocco
  
0.6%
Algeria
  
0.6%
Germany
  
0.5%
Other
  
4.4%

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