What is French Wikipedia?
{{Infobox website | name = {{Wiki favicon}} '''French Wikipedia, the free wikipedia'''<br />''Wikipédia Francophone'' | screenshot = French Wikipedia screenshot.png | collapsible = yes | caption = | logo = Wikipedia-logo-v2-fr.svg | url = [http://fr.wikipedia.org fr.wikipedia.org] | commercial = No | location = | type = [[Online encyclopedia]] project | language = [[French language|French]] | owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] | author = French wiki community }} The '''French Wikipedia, the free Wikipedia''' ({{lang-fr|Wikipédia Francophone}} or {{lang|fr|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 Wikipedia|English language]] and [[German Wikipedia|German language]] editions, but dropped to sixth.<ref>[[meta:List of Wikipedias|Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics.]]. Retrieved 28 March 2016.</ref> As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, it has about {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|fr}} round -3}}}} articles. ==List of countries wikipedia distributions== {{div col|colwidth=17em}} * '''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]] {{div col end}} == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{commonscat|French Wikipedia}} * [[:fr:Main Page|French Wikipedia, the Free Wikipedia's Main page7]] {{Wikipedias}} [[Category:Wikipedias]] [[Category:Websites established in 2001]]