French Wikipedia

**French Wikipedia, the free wikipedia**
*Wikipédia Francophone*

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Type of site	Online encyclopedia project
Available in	French
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	French wiki community
URL	fr.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No

The French Wikipedia, the free Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia Francophone or Wikipédia en français) is the French language edition of Wikipedia, spelled Wikipédia. It started in March 2001. It is the largest Wikipedia in a Romance language. It was the third largest Wikipedia after the English language and German language editions, but dropped to sixth.^[1]

As of September 2025, it has about 2,711,000 articles.

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6,000,000+	English (`en`) (7,064,314) Cebuano (`ceb`)
2,000,000+	German (`de`) French (`fr`) Swedish (`sv`) Dutch (`nl`) Russian (`ru`)
1,000,000+	Arabic (`ar`) Chinese (`zh`) Egyptian Arabic (`arz`) Italian (`it`) Japanese (`ja`) Persian (`fa`) Polish (`pl`) Portuguese (`pt`) Spanish (`es`) Ukrainian (`uk`) Vietnamese (`vi`) Waray (`war`)
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50,000 –199,999	Afrikaans (`af`) Albanian (`sq`) Belarusian (Taraškievica) (`be-tarask`) Bengali (`bn`) Bosnian (`bs`) Breton (`br`) Cantonese (`zh-yue`) Chuvash (`cv`) Georgian (`ka`) Haitian Creole (`ht`) Hindi (`hi`) Icelandic (`is`) Irish (`ga`) Javanese (`jv`) Latin (`la`) Latvian (`lv`) Luxembourgish (`lb`) Macedonian (`mk`) Malagasy (`mg`) Malayalam (`ml`) Marathi (`mr`) Nepal Bhasa (`new`) Norwegian (Nynorsk) (`nn`) Occitan (`oc`) Piedmontese (`pms`) Punjabi (`pa`) Silesian (`szl`) Slovene (`sl`) Sundanese (`su`) Swahili (`sw`) Tamil (`ta`) Telugu (`te`) Thai (`th`) West Frisian (`fy`) Western Punjabi (`pnb`)
>50,000	Alemannic (`als`) Aragonese (`an`) Dutch Low Saxon (`nds-nl`) Extremaduran (`ext`) Kannada (`kn`) Ligurian (`lij`) Meitei (`mni`) Mongolian (`mn`) Neapolitan (`nap`) Pashto (`ps`) Sanskrit (`sa`) Scots (`sco`) Sicilian (`scn`) Sindhi (`sd`) Tagalog (`tl`) Volapük (`vo`) Yiddish (`yi`) Zhuang (`za`)
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