The English Wikipedia is, with the Simple English Wikipedia, one of two English-language editions of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was founded on January 15, 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition, and, as of May 12, 2023, has the most articles of any edition, at 6,655,369. As of May 2023, 10.9% of articles in all Wikipedias belong to the English-language edition; this share is down from more than 50% in 2003. The edition's one-billionth edit was made on January 13, 2021. Editors of the English Wikipedia have pioneered some ideas as conventions, policies or features which were later adopted by Wikipedia editions in some of the other languages. These ideas include "featured articles", the neutral-point-of-view policy, navigation templates, the sorting of short "stub" articles into sub-categories, dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration, and weekly collaborations. More information...
According to PR-model, en.wikipedia.org is ranked 39th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 8th in Russian Wikipedia.
The website is placed before britannica.com and after yahoo.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
