The Spanish Wikipeia (Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, online encyclopedia. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006. Currently, it is the 9th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, having surpassed Swedish Wikipedia in April 2007. Long before it had been the 8th-biggest edition of Wikipedia, until the Portuguese language Wikipedia overtook it in May 2005 and the Italian edition in August 2005. On November 18, 2007 the Spanish Wikipedia reached 300,000 articles.