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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.
This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since 2003 by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization funded mainly by donations from readers. [7] Initially only available in English, editions of Wikipedia in more than 300 other languages have been developed.
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.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,843,511 articles in English, with 116,100 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
Wikipedia started on January 15, 2001 and it has over 35,000,000 articles in many languages, including 253,058 in Simple English. Most of these articles are in languages other than English. Every day, hundreds of people from around the world make hundreds of changes and create lots of new articles.
