English Wikipedia
English-language edition of Wikipedia
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English Wikipedia was founded on January 15, 2001.[1]
Its product is an online encyclopedia.
Key Facts
- Author: English Wikipedia community[3]
- Creator: Jimmy Wales[4], Larry Sanger[5]
- Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation[6]
- Operator: Wikimedia Foundation[7]
- Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[8], GNU Free Documentation License[9], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International[10]
- Writing system: Latin script[11]
- Commons category: English Wikipedia[12]
- Language of work or name: English[13]
- Wikimedia language code: en[14]
- Review score: 4/5 (Great)[15]
- Has part(s): English Wikipedia article[16]
- Inception: January 15, 2001[17]
- Has edition or translation: Nostalgia Wikipedia[18]
- Official website: https://en.wikipedia.org/[19]
- Topic's main category: Category:English Wikipedia[20]
- Web feed URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=featured&feedformat=rss[21], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=onthisday&feedformat=atom[22]
- Product or material produced: online encyclopedia[23]
- Languages spoken, written or signed: English[24]
- Official name: English Wikipedia[25]
- Title: Wikipedia[26]
- IRC channel URL: ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/wikipedia-en[27]
- Number of registered users/contributors: 24,797,289[28], 115,603[29], 27,239,475[30], 31,331,313[31]
- House publication: The Signpost[32]
- Search formatter URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=$1[33]
- Number of records: 6,343,474[34], 5,005,658[35], 4,017,334[36], 3,005,288[37], 2,040,371[38], 1,006,271[39], 103,373[40], 12,252[41], 7,147,267[42]
Why It Matters
English Wikipedia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] It is known by 95 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]