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It is a co-official language of the United Nations, the European Union, and many other international and regional organisations. It has also become the de facto lingua franca language of diplomacy, science, technology, international trade, logistics, tourism, aviation, entertainment and the internet. [10]
The largest, the English Wikipedia, has over 6.8 million articles. As of January 2021, the English Wikipedia receives 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining split among the other languages. The top 10 editions represent approximately 85% of the total traffic.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-two million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,821,210 articles in English, with 122,498 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 250,854 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.
The Main Page is Wikipedia 's home page for English-speakers. Besides by the link in the left sidebar, it can be accessed by typing en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ (not specifying an article name in the URL), or going to www.wikipedia.org (not specifying a language in the URL) and clicking English (Clicking another language will take ...
Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, with each one pertaining to a specific language. The English-language Wikipedia has the largest collection of articles, standing at 6,820,684 as of May 2024.
The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. English is the first language in which Wikipedia was written. It was started on 15 January 2001. It is the largest encyclopedia in the world, and the largest version of Wikipedia since April 2019.
