What is Italian Wikipedia?
{{use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox website | name = {{Wiki favicon}} '''Italian Wikipedia'''<br />''Wikipedia in Italiano'' | screenshot = Italian-wikipedia-screenshot.png | collapsible = yes | caption = | logo = Wikipedia-logo-v2-it.svg | url = [http://it.wikipedia.org it.wikipedia.org] | commercial = | location = | type = [[Internet]] [[encyclopedia]] project | language = | owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] | author = Italian wiki community }} The '''Italian Wikipedia''' ({{lang-it|Wikipedia in italiano}}) is the [[Italian language|Italian-language]] edition of [[Wikipedia]]. This edition was started on 11 May 2001<ref>[[mailarchive:wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html|New language wikis]], Wikipedia-l mailing list.</ref> and has over {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|it}} round -3}}}} articles.<ref>[[:it:Speciale:Statistiche|Statistics at Italian Wikipedia]]</ref> It is currently the 9th largest edition by article count.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias|title=List of Wikipedias|work=[[Meta-Wiki]]|publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]|accessdate=2021-01-04}}</ref> ==2011 mass blanking protest== [[File:Wikipedia Comunicato 4 ottobre 2011-en - Wikipedia 1317753339711.png|thumb|right|From 4 to 6 October 2011, all pages on the Italian Wikipedia project were redirected to this one-page Manifesto.]] Volunteers on the Italian Wikipedia decided they did not like a proposed law<ref>Paragraph 29 of the ''[[DDL intercettazioni]]'' (Wiretapping Bill)</ref> before the [[Italian Parliament]]. The proposal was from 4 to 6 October 2011. During this time, all of the site's articles were hidden. Wikipedia's administrators blocked the website<ref>{{cite web|title=Camera dei Deputati: disegno di legge N. 1415-B|url=http://www.camera.it/Camera/view/doc_viewer_full?url=http%3A//www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stampati/pdf/16PDL0038530.pdf&back_to=http%3A//www.camera.it/126%3FPDL%3D1415-B%26leg%3D16%26tab%3D2%26stralcio%3D%26navette%3D|work=camera.it|language=Italian|accessdate=2011-1