Simple English Wikipedia

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{{Infobox website

| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Simple English Wikipedia

| screenshot = Simple English Wikipedia screenshot.png

| collapsible = Yes

| logo = Wikipedia-logo-v2-simple.svg

| type = [[Online encyclopedia]]

| language = [[Basic English|Simple English]]

| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] (non-profit)

| url = {{URL|https://simple.wikipedia.org}}

| commercial = No

| registration = Optional

| num_users = {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} (registered)

| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2001|9|18}}

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The '''Simple English Wikipedia''' is a [[Basic English|Simple English language]] version of [[Wikipedia]], an [[online encyclopedia]], written in a [[language]] that is easy to understand but is still natural and grammatical.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2240303,00.html |title=Wikipedia too long-winded for you? Try the simple version |author=Tim Dowling |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=2008-01-14 |accessdate=2009-05-17 |archive-date=2008-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621045119/http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2240303,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use shorter sentences and easier [[words]] and [[grammar]] than the regular [[English Wikipedia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2008/WS-08-15/WS08-15-008.pdf |title=Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: Towards a Machine Learning Approach |author=Koen Smets |publisher=University of Antwerp |accessdate=2009-05-17 |archive-date=2011-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604040129/http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2008/WS-08-15/WS08-15-008.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> This makes articles easier to understand and change.

When Simple English Wikipedia started making pages and allowing changes in 2003, the [[:en:|English Wikipedia]] already had 150,000 articles. Seven other Wikipedia in other [[language]]s also had over 15,000 articles. Because the other Wikipedias already have a lot of articles, most Simple English articles are not new. They are simpler versions of articles from the English Wikipedia. Right now, the Simple English Wikipedia has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles.<ref name=statistics>[[Special:Statistics]]. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}.</ref> The Simple English Wikipedia started on September 18, 2001,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Simple English Wikipedia – Meta|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia|access-date=2021-11-23|website=meta.wikimedia.org|archive-date=2021-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129113118/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia|url-status=live}}</ref> and is the 43rd-largest Wikipedia, as of March 2024.<ref>[[metawiki:List of Wikipedias|Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics]]. Retrieved March 22, 2024.</ref> It has {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users, {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} active in the last month.<ref name=statistics/>

== Common uses ==

The Simple English Wikipedia intended to be used by:{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

*[[English as a second language|Non-native English speakers]]

*[[Student]]s

*[[Children]]

*[[Teacher]]s

*People with [[Learning disability|learning disabilities]]

==Related pages==

*[[English Wikipedia]]

*[[Wikipedia administrators]]

*[[Wikipedia:Simple English Wikipedia]]

*[[Wikipedia:Simple English Wiktionary]]

*[[Simple English]]: a list of articles about attempts to simplify English

==References==

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==Other websites==

{{Commons category|Simple English Wikipedia}}

*[https://simple.m.wikipedia.org Simple English Wikipedia mobile version]

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