The English Wikipedia is the primary English language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition.
The Chinese Wikipedia is the written vernacular Chinese edition of Wikipedia. It has been run by the Wikimedia Foundation since 11 May 2001.
The German Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.
The Esperanto Wikipedia is the Esperanto version of Wikipedia, which was started on 11 May 2001, alongside the Basque Wikipedia. With over 364,000 articles as of January 2025, it is the 37th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, and the largest Wikipedia in a constructed language.
There are two Norwegian language editions of Wikipedia: one for articles written in Bokmål or Riksmål, and one for articles written in Nynorsk or Høgnorsk. There are currently 640,661 articles on the Norwegian Wikipedia edition in Bokmål/Riksmål, and 172,911 articles on the Nynorsk edition.
The Arabic Wikipedia is the Modern Standard Arabic version of Wikipedia. It started on 9 July 2003. As of January 2025, it has 1,249,071 articles, 2,670,374 registered users and 53,810 files and it is the 17th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 7th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It was the first Wikipedia in a Semitic language to exceed 100,000 articles on 25 May 2009, and also the first Semitic language to exceed 1 million articles, on 17 November 2019.
The Hungarian Wikipedia is the Hungarian/Magyar version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started on 8 July 2003 by Péter Gervai, this version reached the 300,000-article milestone in May 2015. The 500,000th article was born on 16 February 2022. As of 2 January 2025, this edition has 551,989 articles and is the 29th largest Wikipedia edition.
The Hindi Wikipedia is Modern Standard Hindi edition of Wikipedia. It was launched in July 2003. As of January 2025, it has 163,704 articles, and ranks 10th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
The Latvian Wikipedia is the Latvian-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It was created on 6 June 2003. With more than 132,000 articles, it is currently the 68th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles and the second-largest Wikipedia in a Baltic language after the Lithuanian Wikipedia.
The Cantonese Wikipedia is the Cantonese-language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. It was started on 25 March 2006.
The Basque Wikipedia is the Basque language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on 6 December 2001, although its main page was created in November 2003, it reached 58,124 articles by 19 August 2010, making it the 45th-largest Wikipedia. As of January 2025, it has 622 active contributors, of which 12 are administrators, and has about 450,000 articles.
The Asturian Wikipedia is the Asturian language edition of Wikipedia started in July 2004. As of 2 January 2025, the Asturian Wikipedia has 136,903 articles, making it the 67th-largest Wikipedia. It also has 129,935 registered users, most of them global accounts created automatically, since the monthly active users amount to 117 of which 8 are administrators. It has 4,318,540 edits. The Asturian Wikipedia ranks 16th among Wikipedias by articles per speaker population.
The Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia is the Egyptian Arabic version of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. This Wikipedia primarily acts as an alternative to the Arabic Wikipedia in favor of speakers of the Egyptian dialect. Until 2020, it was the only Wikipedia written in a localised dialect of Arabic. The second one is Moroccan Wikipedia, which was approved and created in July 2020.
The Japanese Wikipedia is the Japanese edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001, the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008. As of January 2025, it has almost 1,443,000 articles with 12,499 active contributors, ranking fourth in the latter metric behind the English, French and German editions.
The Uzbek Wikipedia is the Uzbek-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It was founded in December 2003. Articles in the Uzbek-language edition are written in the Latin script. In August 2012, a Latin-to-Cyrillic converter was added to allow users to view Uzbek Wikipedia's pages in both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages is the Ripuarian edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 6 July 2005, as WiKoelsch on a private server, and was converted to an official Wikipedia during April 2006. As only about a million people speak the Ripuarian languages, the Ripuarian Wikipedia is relatively small. Since both the use of Ripuarian, and the population capable of using a Ripuarian language, are decreasing, it is also an endangered language Wikipedia. The total number of edits on this Wikipedia is 1,609,089.
The Odia Wikipedia is the Odia edition of Wikipedia. It is a free, web-based, collaborative encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. The project was started by Suneet Samaetha in June 2002 and reached 1,000 articles in May 2011. This is one of the first four Indic Wikipedias started in 2002, among over 20 Indic language Wikipedias. The first edit on Odia Wikipedia occurred on 3 June 2002.
The Volapük Wikipedia is the Volapük-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It was created in February 2003, but launched in January 2004. As of 2 January 2025, it is the 110th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, with about 39,000 articles, and the third-largest Wikipedia in a constructed language after the Esperanto Wikipedia and the Ido Wikipedia.
The Cebuano Wikipedia is the Cebuano-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. Despite being the second-largest Wikipedia in numbers of articles, it has a small community of only 155 active users; nearly all of the 6,116,872 articles were initially created through automatic programs, most notably Sverker Johansson's Lsjbot.
Balinese Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Balinese language. The Balinese Wikipedia generally follows the basic rules of Indonesian Wikipedia. The Balinese Wikipedia was in the project incubator Wikimedia, since the incubator page was created in 2005 until October 2019.
