French Wikipedia

Also known as frwiki, frwp, fr.wiki, frwikipedia, Wikipédia francophone, Wikipédia en français, French-language Wikipedia, French WP

[fr] French-language edition of Wikipedia

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French Wikipedia is the version of Wikipedia written in French, allowing French speakers around the world to access and contribute to free, openly editable encyclopedia content in their language. It matters because it makes reliable, collaborative knowledge accessible to millions of French speakers who might prefer or need information in their native language.

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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. It has 2,761,195 articles as of 1 June 2026, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia language version, after the English-, Cebuano-, and German-language editions, and the largest Wikipedia edition in a Romance language. It has the third-most edits, and ranks 5th in terms of depth among Wikipedia editions, in addition to being the third-largest Wikipedia edition by number of active users as of January 2025. It was the third edition, after the English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia, to exceed 1 million articles: this occurred on 23 September 2010. In April 2016, the project had 4,657 active editors who made at least five edits in that month.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.