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",[13] the
neutral-point-of-view policy,[14] navigation templates,[15] the sorting of short "stub" articles into sub-categories,[16]
dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration,[17] and weekly collaborations.[18]

It surpassed six million articles on 23 January 2020.[19] In November 2022, the total volume of the compressed
texts of its articles amounted to 20 gigabytes.[20]

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.[6] Currently,
there are 6,793,472 articles created with 913,724 files. The encyclopedia is home to 10.9% of articles in all
Wikipedias (down from more than 50% in 2003).[21][22] The English Wikipedia currently has 47,055,849 registered
accounts of which 864 are administrators.