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This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] 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.
[W 44] [W 43] 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 on the island of Great Britain. [4][5][6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain.
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
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,888,896 articles in English, with 117,842 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
In January 2004, Wikipedia reached the 200,000-article milestone in English with the article on Neil Warnock, and reached 450,000 articles for both English and non-English Wikipedias. The next month, the combined article count of the English and non-English reached 500,000 .
English as we know it today was exported to other parts of the world through British colonisation, and is now the dominant language in Britain and Ireland, the United States and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many smaller former colonies, as well as being widely spoken in India, parts of Africa, and elsewhere.
Each group of squares in the map key is 20% of total number of districts. With over 56 million inhabitants, England is by far the most populous country of the United Kingdom, accounting for 84% of the combined total. [ 3 ]
The Simple English Wikipedia is a modified English-language edition of Wikipedia written primarily in Basic English and Learning English. [2] It is one of seven Wikipedias written in an Anglic language or English-based pidgin or creole.
