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This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
English Wikipedia is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining percentage split among the other languages. The English Wikipedia has the most articles of any edition, at 6,820,501 as of May 2024.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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 6,820,280 articles in English, with 122,687 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
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
