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The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition.

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain after its Roman occupiers left.

English, an adjective for something of, from, or related to England; English, an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity; English studies, the study of English language and literature

The English Wikipedia has 6,956,653 articles, 48,736,520 registered editors, and 127,843 active editors. An editor is considered active if they have made one or more edits in the past 30 days.

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On 10 January 2005, the multilingual portal at www.wikipedia.org was set up, replacing a redirect to the English-language Wikipedia. On 5 February 2005, Portal:Biology was created, becoming the first thematic "portal" on the English Wikipedia. [ 168 ]

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