The 

English Wikipedia is, along with the Simple English Wikipedia, one of two English-

language editions of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was founded on 15 January 2001 as
Wikipedia's first edition and, as of 28 May 2022, has the most articles of any edition, at
6,504,666.[1] As of May 2022, 11% of articles in all Wikipedias belong to the English-language
edition; this share was more than 50% in 2003.[2][3] The edition's one-billionth edit was made on 13
January 2021.[4]

Contents

 1Articles
 2Wikipedians
 3Controversies
o 3.1English varieties
o 3.2Disputed articles
o 3.3Threats against high schools
 4Wikiproject and assessment
 5Internal news publications
 6See also
 7Footnotes
 8References
 9External links

Articles

Screenshot of Wikipedia's article on Earth, 30 March 2021

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The English Wikipedia has 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",[5] the neutral-point-of-view policy,[6] navigation templates,[7] the sorting of short
"stub" articles into sub-categories,[8] dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and
arbitration,[9] and weekly collaborations.[10]
It surpassed six million articles on 23 January 2020.[11] In August 2020, the total volume of the
compressed texts of its articles amounted to 18.6 gigabytes.[12]
The edition's one-billionth edit was made on 13 January 2021 by Ser Amantio di Nicolao (Steven
Pruitt) who as of that date is the user with the highest number of edits on the English Wikipedia,
at over four million.[4] Currently, there are 6,504,666 articles created with 892,030 files. T