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This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains 3,803,587 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.

• More than 700,000 articles: Deutsch · Español · Français · Italiano · Nederlands · 日本語 · Polski · Português · Русский
• More than 150,000 articles: العربية · Bahasa Indonesia · Català · Česky · Dansk · Esperanto · فارسی · 한국어 · Magyar · ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬ · Română · Српски / Srpski · Suomi · Svenska · Tiếng Việt · Türkçe · Українська · 中文
• More than 50,000 articles: Bahasa Melayu · Български · Eesti · Ελληνικά · Simple English · Euskara · Galego · עברית · Hrvatski · Lietuvių · ‪Norsk (nynorsk)‬ · Slovenčina · Slovenščina · Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски · ไทย

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Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus	Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals	Wikiquote Collection of quotations	Wikisource Free source documents
Wikispecies Directory of species	Wikinews Free content news source	Commons Shared media repository	Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination

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