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Sep 15, 2024 · Wikipedia is a free, web-based encyclopedia that is collaboratively written by volunteers around the world. Launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it has grown to become one of the largest and most influential online knowledge platforms.
Sep 17, 2024 · By 2006 the English-language version of Wikipedia had more than 1,000,000 articles, and by the time of its 10th anniversary in 2011 it had surpassed 3,500,000. However, while the encyclopedia continued to expand at a rate of millions of words per month, the number of new articles created each year gradually decreased, from a peak of 665,000 in ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain.
5 days ago · Currently, the English Wikipedia makes up 10.81 percent of all volumes in all editions of Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia's database size is just over 10 times greater than the next-largest Wikipedia by article count, the Cebuano Wikipedia.
3 days ago · In this box I flesh out some of those differences (and similarities) within the context of one of the greatest reference works of all time: Encyclopedia Britannica. The Encyclopedia Britannica contains carefully edited articles on all major topics.
- David C. Murray
- 2015
6 days ago · Each entry gives the language name in English (linked to the English Wikipedia article for the language); its "local name" (i.e. in the language itself, linked to the article in that language's wiki); the language code used in the wiki's URL address and in interwiki links to it (linked to the local Main Page); and statistics on articles, edits ...
2 days ago · The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and its predecessor, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, have recognised and affirmed constitutional principles such as parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy, and upholding international law. [3]
