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English Wikipedia was founded on January 15, 2001.[1]

Its product is an online encyclopedia.

English Wikipedia

Summary

English Wikipedia is a Wikipedia language edition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.6% of wikipedia_language_edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,278 views/month, #1 of 168).[2]

Key Facts

  • English Wikipedia authored English Wikipedia community[3].
  • English Wikipedia is the creator of Jimmy Wales[4].
  • English Wikipedia is the creator of Larry Sanger[5].
  • English Wikipedia's image is recorded as English Wikipedia screenshot.png[6].
  • English Wikipedia's instance of is recorded as Wikipedia language edition[7].
  • English Wikipedia's owned by is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[8].
  • English Wikipedia's operator is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[9].
  • English Wikipedia's logo image is recorded as Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.svg[10].
  • English Wikipedia's logo image is recorded as Wikipedia logo v2 (white).svg[11].
  • English Wikipedia's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[12].
  • English Wikipedia's copyright license is recorded as GNU Free Documentation License[13].
  • English Wikipedia's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International[14].
  • English Wikipedia's writing system is recorded as Latin script[15].
  • English Wikipedia's Commons category is recorded as English Wikipedia[16].
  • English Wikipedia's language of work or name is recorded as English[17].
  • English Wikipedia's Wikimedia language code is recorded as en[18].
  • English Wikipedia's review score is recorded as 4/5 (Great)[19].
  • English Wikipedia's has part is recorded as English Wikipedia article[20].
  • +2001-01-15T00:00:00Z marks the founding of English Wikipedia[21].
  • English Wikipedia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01wfbm[22].
  • English Wikipedia's has edition or translation is recorded as Nostalgia Wikipedia[23].
  • English Wikipedia's official website is recorded as https://en.wikipedia.org/[24].
  • English Wikipedia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:English Wikipedia[25].
  • English Wikipedia's web feed URL is recorded as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=featured&feedformat=rss[26].
  • English Wikipedia's web feed URL is recorded as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=onthisday&feedformat=atom[27].

Body

Founding

+2001-01-15T00:00:00Z marks the founding of English Wikipedia[21].

Identity

English Wikipedia's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'it'}[28].

Operations

English Wikipedia's operator is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[9].

Ownership

English Wikipedia's owned by is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[8]. Its product or material produced is recorded as online encyclopedia[29].

Why It Matters

English Wikipedia ranks in the top 0.6% of wikipedia_language_edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,278 views/month, #1 of 168).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

encyclopedia Jimmy Wales Larry Sanger Wikipedia

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [4] ↑ . features.slashdot.org. Retrieved . features.slashdot.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [5] ↑ . features.slashdot.org. Retrieved . features.slashdot.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Trustpilot. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . features.slashdot.org. Retrieved . features.slashdot.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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