[2][3] It was created on 16 March 2001, just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German edition.

[4][5] In April 2016, the project had 582 active editors who made at least five edits in that month.

[6] The first tests were made on the deutsche.wikipedia.com,[7] and a few minutes later, the Catalan Wikipedia was created in the catalan.wikipedia.com domain.

[8] The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, 16 March 2001, made to the Catalan main page.

[10] The main page avoids making reference to a particular nomenclature,[clarification needed] by simply stating aquesta versió, "this version".