The German Wikipedia (German: deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.
Founded in March 2001, it is the second-oldest and, with over 1,506,000 articles, the second-largest edition of Wikipedia, behind the English Wikipedia. On 7 November 2011, it became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits.
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“Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.”
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