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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.
This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, [ 3][ 4] and is consistently ranked among the ten most visited websites; as of July 2024, it was ranked fifth by Semrush, [ 5] and seventh by Similarweb. [ 6]
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.
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. [1]
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,868,487 articles in English, with 113,813 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
