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The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. English is the first language in which Wikipedia was written. EnglishWikipedia FromSimpleEnglishWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch EnglishWikipediaLogoScreenshot HomepageinJune2020TypeofsiteOnlineencyclopediaprojectAvailable inEnglishOwnerWikimediaFoundationCreated byEnglishwikicommunityURLen.wikipedia.orgCommercialNoRegistrationOptional,butneededforsometasksincluding• protectedpageedit • pagecreation • fileupload Launched15 January2001;21yearsago (2001-01-15)ContentlicenseCreativeCommonsAttribution/Share-Alike3.0(mosttextalsodual-licensedunderGFDL)Medialicensingvaries TheEnglishWikipediaistheEnglishlanguageeditionoftheWikipediaonlineencyclopedia.EnglishisthefirstlanguageinwhichWikipediawaswritten.Itwasstartedon15January2001.Itisthelargestencyclopediaintheworld,andthelargestversionofWikipediasinceApril2019.[1]Ithasmorethan6,085,700articlesasofMay2020.[2]InOctober2015,thetotalvolumeofthecompressedtextsoftheEnglishWikipedia'sarticlesaddedupto11.5gigabytes. TheSimpleEnglishWikipediaisavariationinwhichmostofthearticlesuseonlybasicEnglishvocabulary(simplewiki).ThereisalsotheOldEnglish(Ænglisc/Anglo-Saxon)Wikipedia(angwiki).IthasanewslettercalledTheSignpost. Wikipediasinotherlanguageshaveimitatedsomeofitstechnicalandorganizationalfeatures. AstheEnglishWikipediaisverypopular,therecanbemanypeopleeditingthewikiinoneminute.ThismadetheSpecial:RecentChangeslesseffectiveforunderstandingchanges.Instead,editorscanselectandwatchforchangesinparticulararticles,usingthe"watchlist"featureofMediaWiki.Somealsousespecialsoftwaretodetectandfixvandalism.[3][4] SomepeoplethinkthattheEnglishLanguageWikipediashowsbiasandunfairness.[5]EditorsofreferenceworkssuchastheEncyclopædiaBritannicahavequestionedWikipedia'sutilityandstatusasanencyclopedia.[6]Anexampleofbiasisthataround90%ofWikipediaeditorsaremale.[7]OtherpeoplethinkthatWikipediaismoreusefulthanotherencyclopediasbecauseitislargeandcanbeupdatedquickly. TheEnglishlanguageWikipediapagefrom18January2012,illustratingitsinternationalblackoutinoppositiontoSOPAandPIPA. In2012,thelogooftheEnglishWikipedialikemostWikipediaswasslightlychanged.However,someWikipedias,liketheSimpleEnglishWikipedia,stillkepttheoldlogo. Relatedpages[change|changesource] Wikipediaadministrators SimpleEnglishWikipedia References[change|changesource] ↑about10percentmorethantheCebuanoWikipedia.Seem:ListofWikipedias. ↑Statistics-Wikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia.RetrievedMay10,2020 ↑jesse.hicks(February18,2014)."Thismachinekillstrolls:HowWikipedia'srobotsandcyborgssnuffoutvandalism".TheVerge.RetrievedJuly16,2020. ↑Wikipediacontributors(July9,2020)."Wikipedia:Cleaningupvandalism/Tools".Wikipedia,TheFreeEncyclopedia.RetrievedJuly16,2020.{{citeweb}}:|last=hasgenericname(help) ↑SimonWaldman,Whoknows?TheGuardian,October26,2004 ↑RobertMcHenry,"TheFaith-BasedEncyclopediaArchived2006-01-16attheWaybackMachine",TechCentralStation,November15,2004. ↑Simonite,Tom(October22,2013)."TheDeclineofWikipedia".MITTechnologyReview.ArchivedfromtheoriginalonJune19,2015.RetrievedOctober31,2014. Otherwebsites[change|changesource] WikimediaCommonshasmediarelatedtoEnglishWikipedia. 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