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The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia.[1] It has 2,485,369 articles as of 13 January 2023, making it the fifth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English-, Cebuano-, Swedish- and German-language editions, the largest Wikipedia edition in a Romance language. It has the third-most edits, and ranks 6th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It was also the third edition, after the English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia, to exceed 1 million articles: this occurred on 23 September 2010.[1] In April 2016, the project had 4657 active editors who made at least five edits in that month.
In 2008, the French encyclopaedia Quid cancelled its 2008 edition, citing falling sales on competition from the French edition of Wikipedia.[2]
As of January 2023, there are 4,557,000 users, 155 admins and 69,688 files on the French Wikipedia.[3]
On 2 December 2014, the French-language Wikipedia encyclopedia became the 3rd[4] linguistic edition by number of registered users since its creation, overtaking for the first time the German edition, with 2,022,504 registered users,[5][6] behind the English (23,300,456)[7] and Spanish (3,401,493)[8] language editions.
The countries in which the French Wikipedia is the most popular language version of Wikipedia are shown in dark blue.
Page views by country over time on the French Wikipedia.
The audience measurement company Médiamétrie questioned a sample of 8,500 users residing in France with access to Internet at home or at their place of work. Médiamétrie found that in June 2007, French Wikipedia had: 7,910,000 unique visitors that visited the site at least once during the month of June 2007 (compared to 4,355,000 unique visitors in June 2006); 2.7 visits per visitor during the period (2.0 visits in June 2006); had held the 12th position (21st in 2006) in "the Top 30 most visited sites in France, excluding Internet applications," according to the criterion of the number of unique visitors and 12th position in "the Top 30 most visited sites in France, including Internet applications," like eMule or Real Networks (22nd position in June 2006).
By August 2011, French Wikipedia was the 7th most visited site in France, with nearly 16 million unique visitors a month (according to Médiamétrie). In April 2012, it had 20 million unique visitors per month, or 2.4 million per day[10] with over 700 million page views.[11]
For the majority of the external links referenced in the articles, a program running on French Wikipedia automatically generates a link titled[archive], which is the union of two parts: the first one starts with http://archive.kiwix.com/cache/?url=,[12] and the second is derived from the referenced URL.[13] This feature has been created for the long-term digital preservation of the external references (so that the archive stays accessible even if the original reference is deleted).
References
^ ab"Wikipédia en français dépasse le million d'articles". ZDNet France.
^Litchfield, John. "France's favourite encyclopaedia falls victim to Wikipedia." The Independent. Wednesday 20 February 2008. Retrieved on 26 June 2013.
^Taha Yasseri; Anselm Spoerri; Mark Graham; János Kertész (8 July 2013). "The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis". arXiv:1305.5566v2 [physics.soc-ph].
^"Wikipédia dépasse 20 millions de visiteurs/mois en France (Médiamétrie)". ZDNet. 31 May 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
^. stats.wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 30 May 2012.
^e.g. in the article of the President François Mitterrand, reference n. 1 contains the link http://www.mitterrand.org/Lieux-de-recueillement-et-de.html, for which the French Wikipedia has generated the link http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20200814221716/http://www.mitterrand.org/Lieux-de-recueillement-et-de.html.
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This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French January 2021 Click show for important translation instructions View a machine translated version of the French article Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate rather than simply copy pasting machine translated text into the English Wikipedia Consider adding a topic to this template there are already 5 293 articles in the main category and specifying topic will aid in categorization Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low quality If possible verify the text with references provided in the foreign language article You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr Wikipedia en francais see its history for attribution You should also add the template Translated fr Wikipedia en francais to the talk page For more guidance see Wikipedia Translation The French Wikipedia French Wikipedia en francais is the French language edition of Wikipedia the free online encyclopedia This edition was started on 23 March 2001 two months after the official creation of Wikipedia 1 It has 2 485 369 articles as of 13 January 2023 making it the fifth largest Wikipedia overall after the English Cebuano Swedish and German language editions the largest Wikipedia edition in a Romance language It has the third most edits and ranks 6th in terms of depth among Wikipedias It was also the third edition after the English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia to exceed 1 million articles this occurred on 23 September 2010 1 In April 2016 the project had 4657 active editors who made at least five edits in that month French 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Wikipedia 9 Statistics Edit The countries in which the French Wikipedia is the most popular language version of Wikipedia are shown in dark blue Page views by country over time on the French Wikipedia The audience measurement company Mediametrie questioned a sample of 8 500 users residing in France with access to Internet at home or at their place of work Mediametrie found that in June 2007 French Wikipedia had 7 910 000 unique visitors that visited the site at least once during the month of June 2007 compared to 4 355 000 unique visitors in June 2006 2 7 visits per visitor during the period 2 0 visits in June 2006 had held the 12th position 21st in 2006 in the Top 30 most visited sites in France excluding Internet applications according to the criterion of the number of unique visitors and 12th position in the Top 30 most visited sites in France including Internet applications like eMule or Real Networks 22nd position in June 2006 By August 2011 French Wikipedia was the 7th most 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