Editing Italian Wikipedia (section)

{{short description|Italian-language edition of Wikipedia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox website
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Italian Wikipedia
| logo = Wikipedia-logo-v2-it.svg
| screenshot = [[File:Italian-wikipedia-screenshot.png|280px|The Main Page of the Italian Wikipedia]]
| caption = Main page of the Italian Wikipedia in April 2021
| collapsible = yes
| url = {{URL|https://it.wikipedia.org}}
| commercial = No
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia project]]
| registration = Optional
| language = [[Italian language|Italian]]
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author = Italian-language [[Wikipedia community]]
| launch_date = {{start date and age|2001|5|10|df=dmy}}
| 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 '''Italian Wikipedia''' ({{langx|it|Wikipedia in italiano}}) is the [[Italian language|Italian-language]] edition of [[Wikipedia]]. This edition was created on 10 May 2001,<ref>[[mailarchive:wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html|New language wikis]], Wikipedia-l mailing list.</ref> and first edited on 11 June 2001. As of {{TODAY}}, it has {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|it|N}} articles and more than {{NUMBEROF|USERS|it|N}} registered accounts.<ref>[[:it:Speciale:Statistics]]</ref> It is the {{Ordinal|{{Wikipedia rank by size|it}}}}-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles (after the [[English Wikipedia|English]], [[Swedish Wikipedia|Swedish]], [[German Wikipedia|German]], [[Dutch Wikipedia|Dutch]], [[French Wikipedia|French]], [[Cebuano Wikipedia|Cebuano]], [[Russian Wikipedia|Russian]], and [[Spanish Wikipedia|Spanish]] editions).<ref>[[meta:List of Wikipedias|List of Wikipedias]]</ref>