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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.
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.
This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
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.
Culture, language and peoples. English, an adjective for something of, from, or related to England. English, an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity. English studies, the study of English language and literature.
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 ...
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.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,831,180 articles in English, with 118,862 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
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 is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
