High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Italian Wikipedia (Italian: Wikipedia in italiano) is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on May 11, 2001 and first edited on June 11, 2001. As of 2011 it has over 906,000 articles and more than 734,000 registered accounts. It is the 4th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles (after the English, German, and French editions).