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German Wikipedia

German-language edition of Wikipedia
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Summary

German Wikipedia is a Wikipedia language edition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of wikipedia language edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,906 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: German Wikipedia[8]
  • Language of work or name: German[9]
  • Wikimedia language code: de[10]
  • Review score: 2/5 (Poor)[11]
  • Inception: March 16, 2001[12]
  • Official website: https://de.wikipedia.org/[13]
  • Product or material produced: online encyclopedia[14]
  • Languages spoken, written or signed: German[15]
  • Official name: deutschsprachige Wikipedia[16]
  • IRC channel URL: irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-de[17]
  • Search formatter URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=$1[18]
  • Number of records: 2,427,746[19], 2,925,437[20], 3,102,656[21]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[22]
  • API endpoint URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php[23], https://de.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/[24], https://de.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php[25]
  • Impressum URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Impressum[26]
  • BEACON file URL: https://persondata.toolforge.org/beacon/dewiki.txt[27]
  • DuckDuckGo bang: dew[28], wde[29], w.de[30], wge[31], wiki.de[32], wikide[33], wikipediade[34], dewiki[35]
  • Random page URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Zuf%C3%A4llige_Seite[36]

Why It Matters

German Wikipedia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] It is known by 100 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

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. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . 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 → de.wikipedia.org
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Domain name: de.wikipedia.org, bot ([[:toolforge:editgroups/b/CB/2d1f480bdbec40f1b7e8525ff93b784d|details]])"
  2. 23w 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 */ Beacon file url: https://persondata.toolforge.org/beacon/dewiki.txt"
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