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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › English_WikipediaEnglish Wikipedia - Wikipedia

    The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] 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.

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      English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European...

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      The largest, the English Wikipedia, has over 6.8 million...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:DifferencesWikipedia:Differences between the English Wikipedia and ...

    Wikipedia:Differences between the English Wikipedia and Wikipedias in other languages. For a list of Wikipedias in different languages, see List of Wikipedias and Meta: List of Wikipedias. For help on linking equivalent articles in Wikipedias in other languages to each other, see help: interlanguage links.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:AboutWikipedia:About - Wikipedia

    Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,825,552 articles in English, with 121,176 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wikipedia:The_FreeWikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

    Some people misunderstand the subtitle "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", often because of the different meanings of the word "free" in the English language. Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales said the following about the ambiguity of the English word "free":

  6. www.britannica.com › topic › WikipediaWikipedia | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica

    Apr 19, 2024 · Wikipedia, free Internet-based encyclopedia, started in 2001, that operates under an open-source management style. It is overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation and is one of the most-visited sites on the Internet. It uses a collaborative software known as wiki for editing articles.

  7. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › English_WikipediaEnglish Wikipedia - Simple English Wikipedia, the free ...

    The Simple English Wikipedia is a variation in which most of the articles use only basic English vocabulary ( simplewiki ). There is also the Old English (Ænglisc/Anglo-Saxon) Wikipedia ( angwiki ). It has a newsletter called The Signpost. Wikipedias in other languages have imitated some of its technical and organizational features.