English Wikipedia
The English Wikipedia (enwiki) 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] It has 6,903,067 articles as of 29 October 2024.[2] In October 2015, the total volume of the compressed texts of the English Wikipedia's articles added up to 23.2 gigabytes.
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Type of site | Online encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | English Wikipedia community |
| URL | en |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional, but needed for some tasks including
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| Launched | 15 January 2001 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Simple English Wikipedia is a variation in which most of the articles use only basic English vocabulary (simplewiki). There is also the Old English (Ænglisc/Anglo-Saxon) Wikipedia (angwiki).
Wikipedias in other languages have imitated some of its technical and organizational features. It has a newsletter called "The Signpost".
As the English Wikipedia is very popular, there can be many people editing (changing) the Wiki in one minute. This made recent changes less effective for understanding changes. Instead, editors can select and watch for changes in particular articles, using the "watchlist" feature of MediaWiki. Both watchlist and recent changes can be filtered to show particular kinds of edits (changes), such as edits from IP addresses or edits that may possibly be vandalism. Some editors use special software to detect and fix vandalism.[3][4]
Some people think that the English Language Wikipedia shows bias and unfairness.[5] Editors of reference works such as the Encyclopædia Britannica have questioned Wikipedia's utility and status as an encyclopedia.[6] An example of bias is that around 90% of Wikipedia editors are male.[7] Other people think that Wikipedia is more useful than other encyclopedias because it is large and can be updated quickly.
In 2010, the logo of the English Wikipedia like most Wikipedia's was slightly changed. However, some Wikipedias, like the Simple English Wikipedia, still kept the old logo.
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change- ↑ 786129 (about 13 percent) more than the Cebuano Wikipedia. See m:List of Wikipedias.
- ↑ Statistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Archived 2008-06-24 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved May 10, 2020
- ↑ jesse.hicks (February 18, 2014). "This machine kills trolls: How Wikipedia's robots and cyborgs snuff out vandalism". The Verge. Archived from the original on August 27, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ↑ "Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism/Tools". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. July 9, 2020. Archived from the original on October 26, 2023. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ↑ Simon Waldman, Who knows? Archived 2011-09-05 at the Wayback Machine The Guardian, October 26, 2004
- ↑ Robert McHenry, "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia Archived 2006-01-16 at the Wayback Machine", Tech Central Station, November 15, 2004.
- ↑ Simonite, Tom (October 22, 2013). "The Decline of Wikipedia". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on June 19, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
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