What is English Wikipedia?
{{For|this Wikipedia that has more basic English|Simple English Wikipedia}} {{Infobox website | name = {{Wiki favicon}} English Wikipedia | logo = Wikipedia-logo-v2-en.svg | logo_size = 85% | logo_alt = The English Wikipedia's logo | screenshot = English Wikipedia screenshot.png | caption = The English Wikipedia's [[home page]] on 17 February 2025 | collapsible = Yes | url = {{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org}} | commercial = No | location = | type = [[Online encyclopedia]] | registration = Optional, but needed for some tasks including {{unbulleted list|•{{thinsp|protected page edit}}|•{{thinsp|page creation}}|•{{thinsp|file upload}}}} | num_users = {{NUMBEROF|users|en}} users and {{NUMBEROF|admins|en}} administrators (as of {{Date}}) | language = [[English language|English]] | owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] | founder = [[Jimmy Wales]]<br>[[Larry Sanger]] | editors = English [[Wikipedia community]] | launch_date = {{start date and age|df=yes|2001|1|15}} | content_license = {{nobr|[[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons Attribution/<br/>Share-Alike]] 4.0}} (most text also dual-licensed under [[GFDL]])<br />Media licensing varies }} The '''English Wikipedia''' is the [[English language]] edition of the [[Wikipedia]]. English is the first [[language]] in which Wikipedia was written. It was started on 15 January 2001. It is the largest [[encyclopedia]] in the world, and [[list of Wikipedias|the largest version of Wikipedia]] since April 2019.<ref>{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|articles|en}}-{{NUMBEROF|articles|ceb}}}} (about {{#expr:({{NUMBEROF|articles|en}}/{{NUMBEROF|articles|ceb}}*100)-100 round 0}} percent) more than the [[Cebuano Wikipedia]]. See [[:m:List of Wikipedias]].</ref> It has {{NUMBEROF|articles|en|N}} articles as of {{Date}}.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics Statistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080624232927/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics |date=2008-06-24 }}. Retrieved May