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Simple English Wikipedia
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- Official name
- Simple English Wikipedia
- Owned by
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Operator
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Official website
- simple.wikipedia.org
- Image
- SimpleWikipediaMainpageScreenshot1October2012.png
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- Commons category
- Simple English Wikipedia
- language of work or name
- Simple English
- inception
- 2001-09-18
- number of registered users/contributors
- 1360028
- copyright license
- GNU Free Documentation License
- writing system
- Latin script
- Wikimedia language code
- simple
- product or material produced
- online encyclopedia
- search formatter URL
- simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=$1&title=Special:Search&fulltext=1
- number of records
- 279732
- API endpoint URL
- simple.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
- DuckDuckGo bang
- wsimple
- random page URL
- simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
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Encyclopedic overview
The Simple English Wikipedia is a modified English language edition of Wikipedia written primarily in Basic English and Learning English. It is one of ten Wikipedias written in an Anglic language or English-based pidgin or creole. The site has the stated aim of providing an encyclopedia for "people with different needs, such as students, children, adults with learning difficulties, and people who are trying to learn English."
Simple English Wikipedia's basic presentation style makes it helpful for beginners learning English. Its simpler word structure and syntax, while missing some nuances, can make information easier to understand when compared with the regular English Wikipedia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simple English Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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