Simple English Wikipedia
The Simple English Wikipedia is a Simple English language version of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, written in a language that is easy to understand but is still natural and grammatical.[1]
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Type of site | Online encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | simple |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | September 18, 2001 |
The articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use shorter sentences and easier words and grammar than the regular English Wikipedia.[2] The language used here is plain English, without idioms, slang and jargon (when possible). Some articles are written only in Basic English, which is even simpler. This makes articles easier to understand and edit. If someone cannot understand an idea in the English Wikipedia, they can read a Simple English article.
When Simple English Wikipedia started making pages and allowing changes in 2003, the English Wikipedia already had 150,000 articles. Seven other Wikipedias in other languages also had over 15,000 articles. Because the other Wikipedias already have a lot of articles, most Simple English articles are not new. They are usually simpler versions of articles from the ordinary English Wikipedia. Right now, the Simple English Wikipedia has 243,870 articles. The Simple English Wikipedia started on September 18, 2001,[3] and is the 47th-largest Wikipedia, as of January 2023.[4]
Common uses change
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Related pages change
- English Wikipedia
- Wikipedia administrators
- Wikipedia:Simple English Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Simple English Wiktionary
- Simple English: a list of articles about attempts to simplify English
References change
- ↑ Tim Dowling (January 14, 2008). "Wikipedia too long-winded for you? Try the simple version". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2008-06-21. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ↑ Koen Smets. "Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: Towards a Machine Learning Approach" (PDF). University of Antwerp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ↑ "Simple English Wikipedia – Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ↑ Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
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