English Wikipedia
[en] English-language edition of Wikipedia
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English Wikipedia is the English-language version of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia that anyone can read and edit. It matters because it provides accessible, crowd-sourced information on a vast range of topics to millions of people worldwide.
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The English Wikipedia is the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition.
The English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization. Its content, written independently of other editions by volunteer editors known as Wikipedians, is in various varieties of English while aiming to stay consistent within articles. Its internal newspaper is The Signpost.