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German Wikipedia

Summary

German Wikipedia is a Wikipedia language edition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of wikipedia_language_edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (232 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • German Wikipedia's image is recorded as German Wikipedia screenshot.png[3].
  • German Wikipedia's instance of is recorded as Wikipedia language edition[4].
  • German Wikipedia's owned by is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[5].
  • German Wikipedia's operator is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[6].
  • German Wikipedia's logo image is recorded as Wikipedia-logo-v2-de.svg[7].
  • German Wikipedia's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[8].
  • German Wikipedia's copyright license is recorded as GNU Free Documentation License[9].
  • German Wikipedia's writing system is recorded as Latin script[10].
  • German Wikipedia's Commons category is recorded as German Wikipedia[11].
  • German Wikipedia's language of work or name is recorded as German[12].
  • German Wikipedia's Wikimedia language code is recorded as de[13].
  • German Wikipedia's review score is recorded as 2/5 (Poor)[14].
  • +2001-03-16T00:00:00Z marks the founding of German Wikipedia[15].
  • German Wikipedia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04lsf6[16].
  • German Wikipedia's official website is recorded as https://de.wikipedia.org/[17].
  • German Wikipedia's product or material produced is recorded as online encyclopedia[18].
  • German Wikipedia's languages spoken, written or signed is recorded as German[19].
  • German Wikipedia's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'deutschsprachige Wikipedia'}[20].
  • German Wikipedia's IRC channel URL is recorded as irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-de[21].
  • German Wikipedia's Wikimedia database name is recorded as dewiki[22].
  • German Wikipedia's Quora topic ID is recorded as German-Wikipedia[23].
  • German Wikipedia's search formatter URL is recorded as https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=$1[24].
  • German Wikipedia's number of records is recorded as {'amount': '+2427746'}[25].
  • German Wikipedia's number of records is recorded as {'amount': '+2925437'}[26].
  • German Wikipedia's number of records is recorded as {'amount': '+3102656'}[27].

Body

Founding

+2001-03-16T00:00:00Z marks the founding of German Wikipedia[15].

Identity

German Wikipedia's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'deutschsprachige Wikipedia'}[20].

Operations

German Wikipedia's operator is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[6].

Ownership

German Wikipedia's owned by is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[5]. Its product or material produced is recorded as online encyclopedia[18].

Why It Matters

German Wikipedia ranks in the top 4% of wikipedia_language_edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (232 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · Printstream · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → German
    Writing system → Latin script
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|3 */ [[Property:P13449]]: https://persondata.toolforge.org/beacon/dewiki.txt"
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