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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.
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.
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.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,827,099 articles in English, with 120,533 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
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 English Wikipedia passed 100,000 articles in 2003, while the next largest edition, the German Wikipedia, passed 10,000. The Wikimedia Foundation was established. Wikipedia adopted its jigsaw world logo.
English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...
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 ...
The home page of the English Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia has the largest user base among wikis on the World Wide Web and ranks in the top 10 among all Web sites in terms of traffic. Other large wikis include the WikiWikiWeb, Memory Alpha, Wikivoyage, and previously Susning.nu, a Swedish-language knowledge base.