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- The English Wikipedia, with its almost 6.9 million articles, is the largest of the editions, which together comprise more than 63 million articles and attract more than 1.5 billion unique device visits and 13 million edits per month (about 5 edits per second on average) as of April 2024.
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Languages of the United States - Wikipedia. The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English ), which is the de facto national language.
Nov 14, 2019 · In its history, Wikipedia has shut down 10 languages, including Choctaw Wikipedia, Afar Wikipedia and Ndonga Wikipedia. This leaves 296 Wikipedias still going today. The decision-making process for languages can be a tough one, especially when deciding which languages are worth the website’s limited resources.
Wikipedia[ c] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.
English is the most widely spoken language in the United States; the de facto common language used in government, education and commerce; and an official language of most U.S. states (32 out of 50). [5]
Wikipedia is an early participant in the global expansion of online knowledge production: it began with a single English-language edition more than two decades ago, and now offers more than 300 language editions.
While many languages are spoken in the United States, English is by far the most commonly spoken and written. [372] Although there is no official language at the federal level, some laws, such as U.S. naturalization requirements, standardize English, and most states have declared it the official language. [373]
Oct 27, 2017 · About 13% of the US population speak Spanish, but only 1.6% of pageviews from the US go to the Spanish Wikipedia. Conversely, we can see that 92% of pages read from India are in English. Indian English-speakers number more than twice the UK’s population, but are still a small fraction of the country’s 1.3 billion inhabitants.
