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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | English wiki 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 English Wikipedia is the English version of Wikipedia. English is the first language Wikipedia was written. It 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 more than 6,085,700 articles as of May 2020. [2]. In October 2015, the total volume of the compressed texts of the English Wikipedia's articles added up to 11.5 gigabytes.
The Simple English Wikipedia is a variation where most of the articles use only basic English vocabulary (simplewiki). There is also the Old English (Ænglisc/Anglo-Saxon) Wikipedia (angwiki). It has a newsletter called The Signpost.
Starting edition[change | change source]
The English Wikipedia was the first and largest Wikipedia edition. It has started many ideas as rules or items which were later used by Wikipedia editions in other languages. These ideas include "featured articles",[3] the neutral-point-of-view rule,[4] navigation templates,[5] the sorting of short "stub" articles into sub-categories,[6] dispute resolution tools such as mediation and arbitration,[7] and weekly collaborations.[8]
The English Wikipedia has used items from other Wikipedias. These items include verified revisions from the German Wikipedia (dewiki) and town population-lookup templates from the Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki).
Although the English Wikipedia stores images, audio files and text files, many of them have been moved to Wikimedia Commons. However, the English Wikipedia also has fair-use images and audio/video files (with copyright conditions). Most are not allowed on Commons.
Many of the most active members in the Wikimedia Foundation and the developers of the MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia are English users.
Users and editors[change | change source]
| Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39,124,400+ | 6,085,700+ | 883,900+ | 1,100+ |
Wikipedians[change | change source]
The English Wikipedia had 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007,[9] just a little over a year since the millionth Wikipedian registered an account in late February 2006.[10]
Over 1,100,000 editors have changed Wikipedia more than 10 times.[11] Over 30,000 editors do more than 5 changes per month, and a little over 3,000 do more than 100 changes per month.[12] By 24 November 2011, a total of 500 million changes had been done on the English Wikipedia.[source?]
As the largest Wikipedia edition, and because English is such a widely used language, the English Wikipedia draws many people whose first language is not English. Such people may find out information from the English Wikipedia rather than the Wikipedia of their first language because the English Wikipedia often have more information about general subjects. Successful collaborations have been developed between non-native English speakers who successfully add content to the English Wikipedia and native English speakers who act as copyeditors for them.[source?]
Arbitration committee[change | change source]
The English Wikipedia has an arbitration committee (also known as ArbCom) that is made up of editors that imposes binding rulings with regard to disputes between other editors of the online encyclopedia.[13] The committee was created by Jimmy Wales on 4 December 2003 as an extension of the decision-making power he had formerly held as owner of the site.[14][15]
When firstly founded, the committee was made up of 12 arbitrators divided into three groups of four members each.[14][16] Since then, the committee has gradually expanded its membership to 18 arbitrators.[17][not in the source given]
As with other aspects of the English Wikipedia, some of Wikipedia's sister projects have imitated the arbitration committee with their own similar versions.[18] For example, in 2007, an arbitration committee was founded on the German Wikipedia called the Schiedsgericht.[19]
As the English Wikipedia is very famous, there can be many people changing the wiki in one minute. This made the Special:RecentChanges less effective for understanding changes. Instead, editors can select and watch for changes in particular articles, using the "watchlist" feature of MediaWiki. Some also use special software to detect and fix vandalism.[source?]
Some people think that the English Language Wikipedia shows bias and unfairness.[20] Editors of reference works such as the Encyclopædia Britannica have questioned Wikipedia's utility and status as an encyclopedia.[21] An example of bias is that around 90% of Wikipedia editors are male.[22] Other people think that Wikipedia is more useful than other encyclopedias because it is large and can be updated quickly.
In 2012 the logo of the English Wikipedia like most Wikipedias was slightly changed. However, some Wikipedias, like the Simple English Wikipedia, still kept the old logo.
Related pages[change | change source]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ about 10 percent more than the Cebuano Wikipedia. See m:List of Wikipedias.
- ↑ Statistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved May 10, 2020
- ↑ English Wikipedia (30 January 2007). "Featured articles". Retrieved 30 January 2007.
- ↑ English Wikipedia (25 January 2007). "Neutral point of view". Retrieved 30 January 2007.
- ↑ Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (29 January 2007). "Help:Template". Retrieved 30 January 2007.
- ↑ English Wikipedia (19 January 2007). "WikiProject Stub sorting". Retrieved 30 January 2007.
- ↑ English Wikipedia (27 January 2007). "Resolving disputes". Retrieved 30 January 2007.
- ↑ English Wikipedia (30 January 2007). "Article Creation and Improvement Drive". Retrieved 30 January 2007.
- ↑ [1]. Retrieved 20 April 2007
- ↑ [2]. Retrieved 20 April 2007
- ↑ "Wikipedia Statistics – Tables – English". Stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- ↑ "Wikipedia Statistics – Tables – English". Stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- ↑ Schiff, Stacy (2 December 2006). "Know-alls". The Age. Australia: Fairfax Digital Network. Retrieved 15 June 2009.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Wales, Jimmy (4 December 2003). "WikiEN-l Wikiquette committee appointments". Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
- ↑ Hoffman, David A.; Salil Mehra (2010). "Wikitruth Through Wikiorder". Emory Law Journal. 59 (2010). SSRN 1354424.
- ↑ Hyatt, Josh (1 June 2006). "Secrets of Greatness: Great Teams". Fortune. Retrieved 15 June 2009.
- ↑ Wales, Jimmy (20 December 2008). "ArbCom Appointments". Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
- ↑ Wikidata (1 April 2015). "Wikipedia sitelinks for Arbitration Committee". Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ↑ Kleinz, Torsten (30 April 2007). "Wikipedia sucht Schiedsrichter" (in German). heise online. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
- ↑ Simon Waldman, Who knows? The Guardian, October 26, 2004
- ↑ Robert McHenry, "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia", Tech Central Station, November 15, 2004.
- ↑ Simonite, Tom (October 22, 2013). "The Decline of Wikipedia". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
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