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, 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 has 6,931,581 articles, 48,472,710 registered editors, and 116,969 active editors. An editor is considered active if they have made one or more edits in the past 30 days.
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 …
In 2005, Wikipedia became the most popular reference website on the Internet, according to Hitwise, with English Wikipedia alone exceeding 750,000 articles. Wikipedia's first multilingual and subject portals were established in 2005.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-four million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,931,875 articles in English, with 116,969 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
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.
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
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of English on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of English in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.