Wikipedia:About

The Simple English Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia. It is a wiki, a kind of web site written by many people together. This means anyone can change any page by clicking on the "change this page" link. You can do this on any page that is not protected. You can see if the page is protected because it will say "View source" instead of "Change".

Wikipedia was started in January 15, 2001 and it has over 18,000,000 articles in many languages, including 77,357 in Simple English. Most of these articles are in languages other than English. Every day hundreds of people from around the world make hundreds of changes and create lots of new articles.

Any pages that you write and any changes that you make are yours. A license called the GNU Free Documentation License guarantees that people will always be able to use and make copies of all of Wikipedia including your pages and changes. Read the page about copyrights for more information.

Note: Wikipedia has pages that some people might think are bad, vulgar or mean. Read the Wikipedia content disclaimer for more information.

Be part of Wikipedia

• Welcome, newcomers!, a place to start for new people.
• Rules for how to behave on Wikipedia.
• How to edit pages and do other things on Wikipedia.

Getting in touch

• Contact us
• Simple talk, a place to ask questions
• Wikipedia mailing lists
• Bug reports and feature requests
• Wikipedians, a list of people who help with Wikipedia
• Meta Wiki, more about Wikipedia and other projects like it

Wikipedia in other languages

1,000,000 articles or more

English  •  Deutsch (German)  •  Français (French)  •  Nederlands (Dutch)

500,000 articles or more

Español (Spanish)  •  Italiano (Italian)  •  日本語 (Japanese)  •  Polski (Polish)  •  Português (Portuguese)  •  Русский (Russian)

100,000 articles or more

العربية (Arabic)  •  Български (Bulgarian)  •  Català (Catalan)  •  Čeština (Czech)  •  Dansk (Danish)  •  Esperanto  •  فارسی (Persian)  •  Suomi (Finnish)  •  עברית (Hebrew)  •  Magyar (Hungarian)  •  Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)  •  한국어 (Korean)  •  Lietuvių (Lithuanian)  •  Bahasa Melayu (Malay)  •  Norsk (Norwegian Bokmål)  •  Română (Romanian)  •  Slovenčina (Slovak)  •  Slovenščina (Slovenian)  •  Српски (Serbian)  •  Svenska (Swedish)  •  Türkçe (Turkish)  •  Українська (Ukrainian)  •  Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)  •  Volapük  •  Winaray (Waray-Waray)  •  中文 (Chinese)

List of all Wikipedias – Languages working together – Start a Wikipedia for a new language

Other Wiki projects

• Wiktionary has a dictionary and thesaurus in lots of languages. They also have word histories, translations, grammar rules, and pages about how to say words correctly.
• Wikibooks is a place that makes books, including online books for children and cookbooks.
• Wikiquote has quotations in every language.
• Wikisource has public domain books and other writing.
• Meta-Wiki is where people organize and talk about all the wikis.
• Wikinews has free news articles and lots of people to talk about them.
• Wikiversity is a free online school.
• Wikimedia Commons has all the pictures, sound and videos ([media]) for all the Wikis.ar:ويكيبيديا:حول