The French Wikipedia is the French language edition of Wikipedia, spelled Wikipédia. Started in August 2001, this edition has over 294,175 articles as of June 2006 and is the third largest Wikipedia after the English language and German language editions. One area in which the French Wikipedia has a larger coverage is cities and towns of France. Image File history File links Description: Logo of the French Wikipedia Source: originally uploaded to Meta, creaded by Author Date: Author: Nohat, Text by Guillaume Bokiau Permission: Other versions of this file: see Wikipedia File links The following pages link to this file: French Wikipedia ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , , or ) is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. ... Logo of Wikipedia The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. ... German Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia. ... The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
A bot, DasBot, the French version of the English Wikipedia's Rambot, has/is in the process of creating articles on all the communes of France, e.g. fr:Rochefort-en-Valdaine, and also on some of the smallest administrative areas (cantons). A bot is common parlance on the Internet for a software program that is a software agent. ... The canton is an administrative division of France. ...
Timeline
2001
23 March: Official creation date of French language Wikipedia.
19 May: First recorded date: [1]
6 June: First known main page: [2] (Including the participation of Valéry Beaud and Buzz).
2002
June: A new logo (in green colour and quite different from the logo used on the other Wikipedias) is displayed in an initiative from Rinaldum. This autonomist move is criticized as all the French wikipedians had not been consulted, but this logo is kept.
August: The first sysops, Anthere, Aoineko and Shaihulud are appointed after a disagreement with user Mulot. First IP blocking.
31 October: Move into Phase III.
December: A quite strong increase of activity is reported. It can be analysed as serial vandalism from a bot, and all subsequent corrections. After this new kind of vandalism, the software is changed in order to anable quicker reverts (rollback link available for sysops only).
2003
January: A strong decrease of activity, essentially due to the slowing down of servers, limiting thus participation.
6 February: Colored "Putsch" on the main page: Before => After. The new design, authored by Aoineko, is reused subsequently by other language versions (including Polish and English Wikipedias).
18 May: The main page has been watched 100,000 times since the counter was implemented.
7 July: Wikipédia has 20,000 pages, including about 12,800 articles.
mid-July: The number of pages calculation is modified. According to the old calculation mode detecting at least a comma, 13,058 encyclopaedia articles are present, and the new calculation that detects at least one link, indicates 13,789 articles.
5 August: 15,000 articles; over 20,000 changes have been recorded since the implementation of phase III software.
20 August: Inhibition of some functions in order to increase performance.
4 September: 16,000 articles
? October: New logo
3-11 November: Papotages is the first user blocked forever as the author of severe and repeated vandalism.
17 November: Lorraine is the first article of the week. 38 users participated in its redaction.
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French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people as a mother tongue, and 128 million including second language speakers, in 1999.
French is one of Canada's two official languages, with English; various provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms deal with the right of Canadians to access services in English and French all across Canada.
French is an official language of New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, and is the sole official language of Quebec.
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