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French Wikipedia

[fr] French-language edition of Wikipedia
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Summary

French Wikipedia is a Wikipedia language edition[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of wikipedia language edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,957 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation[3]
  • Operator: Wikimedia Foundation[4]
  • Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[5], GNU Free Documentation License[6]
  • Writing system: Latin script[7]
  • Commons category: French Wikipedia[8]
  • Language of work or name: French[9]
  • Wikimedia language code: fr[10]
  • Review score: 3/5 (Average)[11]
  • Inception: March 23, 2001[12]
  • Official website: https://fr.wikipedia.org/[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:French Wikipedia[14]
  • Product or material produced: online encyclopedia[15]
  • Official name: Wikipédia en français[16]
  • IRC channel URL: irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-fr[17]
  • Native label: Wikipédia[18]
  • Number of registered users/contributors: 2,187,335[19], 15,375[20], 2,421,469[21]
  • Different from: Wikimedia France[22]
  • Number of records: 2,209,001[23], 2,743,215[24]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[25]
  • API endpoint URL: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php[26]
  • Social media followers: 5637[27], 8978[28], 2965[29], 3097[30], 3201[31], 3534[32]
  • DuckDuckGo bang: wf[33], wfr[34], wikifr[35], wpfr[36]
  • Random page URL: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Page_au_hasard[37]

Why It Matters

French Wikipedia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · MidleadingBot bot · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Domain name → fr.wikipedia.org
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Domain name: fr.wikipedia.org, bot ([[:toolforge:editgroups/b/CB/2d1f480bdbec40f1b7e8525ff93b784d|details]])"
  2. 16w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Owned by → Wikimedia Foundation
    Topic's main category → Category:French Wikipedia
    License → —
    Instance of → Wikipedia language edition
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Factgrid item id: Q1788630, adds FactGrid ID"
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