Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: Started in March 2001 , this edition has over 1 million articles as of 2011 and is the third largest Wikipedia after the English language and German language editions .
Simplified: Started in March 2001 , this edition has over 1,043,000 articles as of December 2010 and is the third largest Wikipedia after the English language and German language editions . It is the largest Wikipedia in a Romance language .