English Wikipedia

Also known as English-language Wikipedia, Wikipedia in English, Wikipedia (en), Wikipedia (English)

[en] English-language edition of Wikipedia

AI overview

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.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Official name: English Wikipedia
Languages spoken: English language
Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation
Operator: Wikimedia Foundation
Creator: Larry Sanger
Official website: en.wikipedia.org
Image: English Wikipedia screenshot.png

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DuckDuckGo bang: wk
number of registered users/contributors: 31331313
Commons category: English Wikipedia
language of work or name: English language
inception: 2001-01-15
web feed URL: en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=onthisday&feedformat=atom
IRC channel URL: ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/wikipedia-en
writing system: Latin script
Wikimedia language code: en
product or material produced: online encyclopedia
search formatter URL: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=$1
house publication: The Signpost
download URL: download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all_novid.zim.torrent
title: Wikipedia
number of records: 7147267
review score: 4/5 (Great)
API endpoint URL: en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
topic's main category: Category:English Wikipedia
contact page URL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us
form of creative work: encyclopedia
P8168: Essex Junction
random page URL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “English Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.