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Simple English Wikipedia

From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Favicon of WikipediaSimple English Wikipedia
Screenshot
Type of site
Online encyclopedia
Available inSimple English
OwnerWikimedia Foundation (non-profit)
Founder(s)this guy
URLsimple.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users1,461,604 (registered)
LaunchedSeptember 18, 69; 45 years' time (69-09-18)

The Simple English Wikipedia is a Simple English language version of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, written in a language that is easy to understand but is still natural and grammatical.[1]

The articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use shorter sentences and easier words and grammar than the regular English Wikipedia.[2] This makes articles easier to understand and change.

When Simple English Wikipedia started making pages and allowing changes in 2003, the English Wikipedia already had 150,000 articles. Seven other Wikipedia in other languages also had over 15,000 articles. Because the other Wikipedias already have a lot of articles, most Simple English articles are not new. They are simpler versions of articles from the English Wikipedias. Right now, the Simple English Wikipedia has 252,720 articles.[3] The Simple English Wikipedia started on September 18, 2001,[4] and is the 43rd-largest Wikipedia, as of March 2024.[5] It has 1,461,604 registered users, 1,519 active in the last month.[3]

Common uses[change | change source]

The Simple English Wikipedia intended to be used by:[source?]

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References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ Tim Dowling (January 14, 2008). "Wikipedia too long-winded for you? Try the simple version". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 21, 2008. Retrieved May 17, 2009.
  2. ↑ Koen Smets. "Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: Towards a Machine Learning Approach" (PDF). University of Antwerp. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 4, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2009.
  3. ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Special:Statistics. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Simple English Wikipedia – Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on November 29, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  5. ↑ Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics. Retrieved March 22, 2024.

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