English Wikipedia is the most-read version of Wikipedia and has the most articles of any edition, at 6,717,857 as of September 2023. It contains 10.9% of articles in all Wikipedias, although it lacks millions of articles found in other editions. The edition's one-billionth edit was made on January 13, 2021.
Since its creation on January 15, 2001, it has grown into the world's largestreference website, attracting over a billion visitors monthly. Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-one million articlesin more than 300 languages, including 6,716,992 articles in Englishwith 120,855 active contributors in the past month.
Wikipedia ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a free online encyclopedia website in 334 languages of the world, 323 languages which are currently active and 11 are closed. People can freely use it, share it, and change it, without having to pay. It is also one of the biggest wiki organizations.
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: as of July 2023, [update] it has over 6 million articles.
The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone, such as children and adults who are learning English. There are 239,253 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use .
Wikipedia started on January 15, 2001 and it has over 35,000,000 articles in many languages, including 239,255 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 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. It has 6,715,796 articles as of 18 September 2023.