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TheWikipedia community is committed to including any and all languages for which there areWikipedians willing to do the work. We are aware that many of theworld's 6,500 languages are not well-represented on computers or the web, and we are committed to working with language speakers and computing organizations to support as many languages as possible.
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Each language in Wikipedia currently has a separate set of user accounts. Links between articles in different languages are calledinterlanguage links orinterwiki links.
The URL of the Wikipedia for a given language is xx.wikipedia.org, where xx is the 2-letter language code as perISO 639. For languages without an ISO 639 2-letter language code, the 3-letter language code is used, or if that also does not exist, a custom 3-letter language code is made. (On the mailing list and in discussion, people often writexx: to meanthe xx-language Wikipedia, as inI'm a regular on fr:.) h
There are currently 288 Wikipedias, counting the English Wikipedia.
This Wikipedia is written inEnglish. Manyother Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
Seem:List of Wikipedias onMeta for a full list.
Seemeta:Language proposal policy for a tutorial on how to get a Wikipedia language edition started, andmeta:Manual for small and new Wikipedias for the first steps