The German Wikipedia (German: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia. Founded on March 16, 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia (after the English Wikipedia). It has 2,801,702 articles, making it the third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles as of 2023, behind the English Wikipedia and the mostly bot-generated Cebuano Wikipedia. It has the second-largest number of edits behind the English Wikipedia and over 260,000 disambiguation pages. On November 7, 2011, it became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits. More information...
According to PR-model, de.wikipedia.org is ranked 461st in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 622nd in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before encyclopedia.com and after focus.de in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.