French Wikipedia
Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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Available in | French |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | fr |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 23 March 2001 |
The French Wikipedia (
In 2008, the French encyclopaedia Quid cancelled its 2008 edition, citing falling sales on competition from the French edition of Wikipedia.[2]
As of April 2024, there are 4,904,000 users, 146 admins and 71,539 files on the French Wikipedia.[3]
On 2 December 2014, the French-language Wikipedia encyclopedia became the 3rd[4] linguistic edition by number of registered users since its creation, overtaking for the first time the German edition, with 2,022,504 registered users,[5][6] behind the English (23,300,456)[7] and Spanish (3,401,493)[8] language editions.
Statistics
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By August 2011, French Wikipedia was the 7th most visited site in France, with nearly 16 million unique visitors a month (according to Médiamétrie). In April 2012, it had 20 million unique visitors per month, or 2.4 million per day[9] with over 700 million page views.[10]
Study
According to a 2013 study by Taha Yasseri et al., from Oxford Internet Institute, Ségolène Royal (FR) and unidentified flying object (objet volant non identifié) were the most controversial articles on the French Wikipedia.[11]
Differences from other Wikipedias
An important difference with the English Wikipedia is that like the Spanish Wikipedia, or the Portuguese Wikipedia in the past, following a community vote in 2006 the French Wikipedia does not accept any images posted under fair use, with the only exception being logos. As of 2023, this exact ban is still in effect.[12]
Another important difference is that while Wikipedia administrators are elected for an indefinite period, anybody can start a formal "motion of no confidence" contesting their status,[13] with the community thereby invited to vote for or against removing their privileges. This also exists on the Spanish[14] and Portuguese Wikipedia,[15] but not on the English Wikipedia.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Wikipédia en français dépasse le million d'articles". ZDNet France. 23 September 2010.
- ^ Litchfield, John. "France's favourite encyclopaedia falls victim to Wikipedia." The Independent. Wednesday 20 February 2008. Retrieved on 26 June 2013.
- ^ "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - French". wikimedia.org.
- ^ "List of Wikipedias by edits per article". wikimedia.org.
- ^ fr:Spécial:Statistiques
- ^ de:Spezial:Statistik
- ^ Special:Statistics
- ^ "Estadísticas". es.wikipedia.org.
- ^ "Wikipédia dépasse 20 millions de visiteurs/mois en France (Médiamétrie)". ZDNet. 31 May 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ "French Wikipedia at a glance". stats.wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 30 May 2012.
- arXiv:1305.5566v2 [physics.soc-ph].
- ^ "Wikipédia:Exceptions au droit d'auteur". French Wikipedia. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
- ^ "Wikipédia:Contestation du statut d'administrateur". French Wikipedia. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
- ^ "Wikipedia:Revalidación de bibliotecarios". Spanish Wikipedia. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
- ^ "Wikipédia:Administradores/Pedidos de remoção". Portuguese Wikipedia. Retrieved 19 April 2023.