The Irish Wikipedia (Irish: Vicipéid na Gaeilge) is the Irish-language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation and established in October 2003, with the first article being written in January 2004. The founder of Vicipéid was Gabriel Beecham. In September 2005 over 1600 articles had been written, with 173 contributors (both regular and irregular) having written material. By March 2007, about 20 regular Wikipedians were writing articles, with up to 7,000 articles having been created. In February 2021, it was just under the 55,000 article mark, making it the 94th largest Wikipedia by article count. More information...
According to PR-model, ga.wikipedia.org is ranked 170,089th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 103,055th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before salldata.dk and after italingua.ru in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
