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 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:NUMBEROF/data' not found. articles as of 20 December 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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| Available in | English |
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| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | English wiki community |
| Website | 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 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, 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.
English Wikipedia Media
Screenshot of Wikipedia's article on Earth, 18 January 2023
Opening English Wikipedia's main page with Mozilla Firefox 99 on Ubuntu 20.04
The countries in which the English Wikipedia is the most popular language version of Wikipedia are shown in red.
Number of editors on the English Wikipedia over time
Edits to English Wikipedia by country as of January 2022
English Wikipedia (marked blue in the graph) is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of the website's global traffic as of 2021.
The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time.
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References
- ↑ Expression error: Unexpected < operator. (about Expression error: Unexpected < operator. 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.