The edition's one-billionth edit was made on January 13, 2021. It contains 10.9% of articles in all Wikipedias, although it lacks millions of articles found in other editions.
The English Wikipedia has the most articles of any edition, at 6,739,863 as of November 2023. Its internal newspaper is The Signpost.Įnglish Wikipedia is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining percentage split among the other languages. Its content is written independently of other editions in various varieties of English, aiming to stay consistent within articles. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition.Įnglish Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization. The English Wikipedia is the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
