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Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [20] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.
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. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.
We use Simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone, such as children and adults who are learning English. There are 253,168 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,839,541 articles in English, with 116,651 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars .
To provide a link to a Wikipedia-specific search, include in the google-link +site:en.wikipedia.org (no spaces before or after), like this: [ [google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wikipedia.org]]. Which looks like this: google:Tip-of-the-day+site:en.wikipedia.org.
