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Irish Wikipedia
Sign in to saveAlso known as Irish Gaelic Wikipedia, gawiki, gawp, gawikipedia, ga.wikipedia.org, Vicipéid
Irish-language edition of Wikipedia
Key facts
- Type of site
- Internet encyclopedia project
- Available in
- Irish
- Headquarters
- San Francisco , California
- Owner
- Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit)
- Url
- ga.wikipedia.org
- Commercial
- No
- Registration
- Optional (required only for certain tasks such as editing protected pages, creating pages or uploading files)
- Users
- 73,381 (total registered, as of 3 June 2026)
- Launched
- October 2003 ; 22 years ago ( 2003-10 )
- Current status
- Active
- Content license
- Creative Commons Attribution/, Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL ), Media licensing varies
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Vicipéid na Gaeilge
- Owned by
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Operator
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Official website
- ga.wikipedia.org
- Image
- Irish Wikipedia screenshot.png
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- copyright license
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Wikimedia language code
- ga
- language of work or name
- Irish
- Commons category
- Vicipéid - Irish language Wikipedia
- inception
- 2003-10-01
- product or material produced
- online encyclopedia
- number of records
- 63115
- API endpoint URL
- ga.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
- DuckDuckGo bang
- wga
- random page URL
- ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speisialta:Random
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Irish Wikipedia (Irish: Vicipéid na Gaeilge), also known as An Vicipéid, is the Irish-language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation and established in October 2003, with the first article being written in January 2004. The founder of Vicipéid was Gabriel Beecham. In September 2005 over 1600 articles had been written, with 173 contributors (both regular and irregular) having written material. By March 2007, about 20 regular Wikipedians were writing articles, with up to 7,000 articles having been created. As of December 2024, it was the 96th largest Wikipedia among 340 active Wikipedias.
The Vicipéid draws (with permission) directly from Fréamh an Eolais, an Irish-language encyclopedia of science and technology, written by Matt Hussey.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Irish Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.