German Wikipedia has over 2,5 million articles

The German Wikipedia has reached 2,500,000 articles! Herzliche Glückwünsche!

Founded in March 2001, it is the second-oldest, after the English Wikipedia, and with 2,500,746 articles, at present (2020) the fourth-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles, behind the English Wikipedia and the mostly bot-generated Swedish Wikipedia and Cebuano Wikipedia. It has the second-largest number of edits behind the English Wikipedia and over 260,000 disambiguation pages. On 7 November 2011, it became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits. More information can be found on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia

German Wikipedia website: DE.Wikipedia.org

German Wikipedia milestones

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meilensteine