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An English Wikipedia is a Wikipedia section composed of English Wikipedia articles for English readers.
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- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia Retrieved:2018-5-14.
- The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on January 15, 2001, it is the first edition of Wikipedia and, , has the most articles of any of the editions. [1] As of , of articles in all Wikipedias belong to the English-language edition. This share has gradually declined from more than 50 percent in 2003, due to the growth of Wikipedias in other languages. There are Statistics articles on the site (live count). [2] In October 2015, the combined text of the English Wikipedia's articles totalled 11.5 gigabytes when compressed. [3] On 1 November 2015, the English Wikipedia announced it had reached 5,000,000 articles and ran a special logo to reflect the milestone.
The Simple English Wikipedia is a variation in which most of the articles use only basic English vocabulary. There is also the Old English (Ænglisc/Anglo-Saxon) Wikipedia (angwiki). Community-produced news publications include The Signpost.
- The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on January 15, 2001, it is the first edition of Wikipedia and, , has the most articles of any of the editions. [1] As of , of articles in all Wikipedias belong to the English-language edition. This share has gradually declined from more than 50 percent in 2003, due to the growth of Wikipedias in other languages. There are Statistics articles on the site (live count). [2] In October 2015, the combined text of the English Wikipedia's articles totalled 11.5 gigabytes when compressed. [3] On 1 November 2015, the English Wikipedia announced it had reached 5,000,000 articles and ran a special logo to reflect the milestone.
- ↑ about 50 percent more than the next in rank, the Swedish Wikipedia. See m:List of Wikipedias.
- ↑ The number of articles on the English Wikipedia is shown by the MediaWiki variable
, with all Wikipedias as total= . - ↑ See size of downloads at Wikipedia:Database download and a list of historical sizes here
