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This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
The English Wikipedia is the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
The English Wikipedia has 6,834,975 articles, 47,540,893 registered editors, and 118,331 active editors. An editor is considered active if they have made one or more edits in the past 30 days.
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
Browse Wikipedia's category pages, which index articles by subject. Category:Main topic classifications – Arts, History, Technology, and more. Wikipedia:Contents/Categories – Hand-crafted list of topic categories. Category:People – Biographies.
In practice, any person who has access to the World Wide Web may read the content of Wikipedia on the website wikipedia.org without paying any money. This, however, does not mean that Wikipedia content is fully non-commercial.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,833,199 articles in English, with 118,638 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
Culture, language and peoples. English, an adjective for something of, from, or related to England. English, an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity. English studies, the study of English language and literature.
The Simple English Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia for people who are learning English. The Simple English Wikipedia's articles can be used to help with school homework or just for the fun of learning about new ideas. Non-English Wikipedias can also translate from the articles here.
