Wikipedia:About

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The Simple English Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia for people who are learning English. The
Simple English Wikipedia's articles can be used to help with school homework or just for the fun of
learning about new ideas. Non-English Wikipedias can also translate from the articles here.
Wikipedia started on January 15, 2001 and it has over 35,000,000 articles in many languages,
including 179,404 in Simple English. Most of these articles are in languages other than English.
Every day hundreds of people from around the world make hundreds of changes and create lots of
new articles.
Note: Wikipedia has pages that some people might think are bad, vulgar or mean. Read the
Wikipedia content disclaimer for more information.

Contents

 1What is the Simple English Wikipedia?

 2Changing pages in the Simple English Wikipedia
 3Simple English
 4Proposals to close the Simple English Wikipedia
 5Be part of Wikipedia
 6Getting in touch
 7Other wiki projects
 8Related pages
 9Wikipedia in other languages