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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › English_languageEnglish language - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

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     The English language spoken and written in England...

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     Currently, the English Wikipedia makes up 10.83 percent of...

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Main_PageWikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   13 hours ago · Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,827,576 articles in English From today's featured article Ursula K. Le Guin "The Day Before the Revolution" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin (pictured). First published in Galaxy in August 1974, it was republished in Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975). Set in her fictional Hainish ...

3. play.google.com › store › appsWikipedia - Apps on Google Play

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   4 days ago · It's free and open Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Articles on Wikipedia are freely licensed and the app code is 100% open source. The heart and soul of...

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   How many articles are on the English Wikipedia?

   • The English Wikipedia is, along with the Simple English Wikipedia, one of two English-language editions of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was founded on January 15, 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition, and, as of January 1, 2023, has the most articles of any edition, at 6,595,452.

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   How is English Wikipedia different from other language Wikipedias?

   • 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.

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   What is the English Wikipedia?

   • 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 6,589,783 articles as of 21 December 2022.

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5. www.computerhope.com › jargon › wWhat is Wikipedia? - Computer Hope

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   May 6, 2024 · Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, structured as a wiki that anyone can edit. It was launched in 2001 by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. As of 2024, Wikipedia contains about 6.8 million articles in the English language. There are a total of 60.2 million pages overall, with about 11.3 percent of them being articles.

6. www.wikiwand.com › en › Size_of_wikipediaWikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - Wikiwand

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   5 days ago · Close. Wikipedia continues to grow, and the number of articles on Wikipedia is increasing by about 14,000 a month (as of January 2024). The number of articles added to Wikipedia every month reached its peak in 2006, at over 50,000 new articles a month, and has been slowly but steadily declining since then.

7. libguides.tcnj.edu › english › wikiLibGuides: English: Encyclopedia Britannica vs. Wikipedia

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   Encyclopedia Britannica vs. Wikipedia. Almost every student, faculty member, and librarian knows from experience how valuable Wikipedia can actually be when looking for quick background information about almost any topic.