Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
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Each language in Wikipedia currently has a separate set of user accounts. Links between articles in different languages are called interlanguage links or interwiki links.
The URL of the Wikipedia for a given language is xx.wikipedia.org, where xx is the 2-letter language code as per ISO 639. For languages without an ISO 639 2-letter language code, the 3-letter language code is used, or if that also does not exist, a custom 3-letter language code is made. (On the mailing list and in discussion, people often write xx: to mean the xx-language Wikipedia, as in I'm a regular on fr:.)
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There are currently 288 Wikipedias, counting the English Wikipedia.
This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
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See m:List of Wikipedias on Meta for a full list.
See meta:Language proposal policy for a tutorial on how to get a Wikipedia language edition started, and meta:Manual for small and new Wikipedias for the first steps