Editing German Wikipedia (section)

{{Short description|German-language edition of Wikipedia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Update|date=April 2023|reason=Much of the article focuses on the mid-2000s. While there is some recent information, it's by far the minority of the article}}
{{Infobox website
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} German Wikipedia
| logo = [[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-de.svg|German Wikipedia logo]]
| screenshot = File:De Wikipedia Hauptseite (hochauflösend).png
| collapsible = yes
| caption = Main Page of the German Wikipedia in March 2023
| url = {{URL|de.wikipedia.org}}
| commercial = No
| launch_date = {{start date and age|2001|3|16|df=y}}
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia project]]
| language = [[German language|German]]
| registration = Optional
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| editor = German-language [[Wikipedia community]]
| content_license = {{nobr|[[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons Attribution/<br/>Share-Alike]] 4.0}} (most text also dual-licensed under [[GFDL]]).<br/>Media licensing varies.
}}

The '''German Wikipedia''' ({{langx|de|Deutschsprachige Wikipedia|link=no}}) is the [[German-language]] edition of [[Wikipedia]], a free and publicly editable [[online encyclopedia]].

Founded on 16 March 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia edition (after the [[English Wikipedia]]). It has {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|de|N}}&nbsp;articles, making it the {{Ordinal to word|{{Wikipedia rank by size|de}}}}-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles {{As of|2024|lc=y}}, behind the English Wikipedia and the mostly bot-generated [[Cebuano Wikipedia]].<ref name="List1">[[meta:List of Wikipedias|Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics.]] Retrieved 5 January 2025.</ref><ref name="JWales01">[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000049.html Jimmy Wales <nowiki>[Wikipedia-l]</nowiki>] Alternative language Wikipedias, 16 March 2001</ref><ref name=":0">[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias/Table List of Wikipedias/Table] meta.wikimedia.org, Statistics</ref> It has the second-largest number of edits and of active users behind the English Wikipedia.<ref name="List1" /> On 7 November 2011, the German Wikipedia became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100&nbsp;million page edits.