Simple English Wikipedia
Basic/Special English edition of Wikipedia
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Summary
Simple English Wikipedia is a Wikipedia language edition[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of wikipedia language edition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,676 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: Wikimedia project with a nonstandard language code[3]
- Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation[4]
- Operator: Wikimedia Foundation[5]
- Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International[6], GNU Free Documentation License[7]
- Writing system: Latin script[8]
- Commons category: Simple English Wikipedia[9]
- Language of work or name: Simple English[10]
- Wikimedia language code: simple[11]
- Inception: September 18, 2001[12]
- Official website: https://simple.wikipedia.org/[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Simple English Wikipedia[14]
- Product or material produced: online encyclopedia[15]
- Official name: Simple English Wikipedia[16]
- Number of registered users/contributors: 1,360,028[17]
- Search formatter URL: https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=$1&title=Special:Search&fulltext=1[18]
- Number of records: 241,296[19], 279,732[20]
- Copyright status: copyrighted[21]
- API endpoint URL: https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/api.php[22]
- DuckDuckGo bang: se.w[23], sw[24], wikisimple[25], wsimple[26]
- Random page URL: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random[27]
Why It Matters
Simple English Wikipedia has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]