Portuguese Wikipedia

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Portuguese Wikipedia

Logo of the Portuguese Wikipedia
Screenshot Main Page of the Portuguese Wikipedia in May 2016
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Portuguese
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	pt.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Required[1]
Launched	11 May 2001; 23 years ago (2001-05-11)

The Portuguese Wikipedia (Portuguese: Wikipédia em português) is the Portuguese-language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese), the free encyclopedia. It was started on 11 May 2001.^[2]

Wikipedia is the nineteenth most accessed website in Brazil^[3] and the tenth most accessed in Portugal.^[4] As of August 2024^[update], it is the 18th largest Wikipedia by article count, containing 1,131,768 articles.