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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.
The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone, such as children and adults who are learning English. There are 251,011 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use.
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.
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.
Wikipedia (pronunciation (help · info)) is a free online encyclopedia website in 336 languages of the world. 324 languages are currently active and 12 are closed. People can freely use it, share it, and change it, without having to pay.
Wikipedia was initially conceived as a feeder project for the Wales-founded Nupedia, an earlier project to produce a free online encyclopedia, volunteered by Bomis, a web-advertising firm owned by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis.
Wikipedia logo featuring Wikipedia's slogan, "The Free Encyclopedia" The subtitle of Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
