French Wikipedia

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]

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

As of December 2025, it has about 2,728,000 articles.

List of countries wikipedia distributions

• French Wikipedia
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Madagascar
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Republic of the Congo
  • Senegal
  • Quebec