The Greek Wikipedia (also Hellenic Wikipedia, Elliniki Vikipedia, Greek: Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια) is the Greek-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. It was started on December 1, 2002. It surpassed the 10,000 article mark on May 16, 2006, the 100,000 article mark on April 9, 2014, and the 200,000 article mark on November 27, 2021. As of May 29, 2023, it is the 50th largest Wikipedia, behind Minangkabau and ahead of Croatian. Greek Wikipedia is the main free internet encyclopedia written in Greek. Its main competitor, LivePedia , started on 2004, and had more than 100,000 articles. Many articles of Livepedia were republished articles from donations of various publishing houses and the site was also a wiki. Approximately 250 articles are coming at least partially from Livepedia, thanks to the Livepedia's use of GFDL until November 1, 2008. As of 2018, Greek Wikipedia's pageviews surpassed the 250 million mark annually. The daily pageviews of Greek Wikipedia vary within the year; peaking in the winter period (late November to mid March), while the months with the least pageviews are usually June, July and August. The active users are 1,079 today (as of May 29, 2023). The highest and lowest active users' numbers are recorded in the same period. More information...
According to PR-model, el.wikipedia.org is ranked 17,250th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 193rd in Greek Wikipedia.
The website is placed before stumpedmagazine.com and after advertiser.ie in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
