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Die englischsprachige Wikipedia ist die erste Ausgabe der Wikipedia. Während Wikipedia auf über dreihundert Sprachausgaben erweitert wurde, verbleibt die englischsprachige die größte, und gilt als „weltweite Wikipedia“, da kleinere Wikipedias es als Übersetzungsquelle verwenden.

Übersicht und Statistiken

Gestartet: Januar 2001

Founders: Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales

Aktuelle Größe: 6.929.779 Artikel

Gesamtbearbeitungszahl: 1.260.446.297

Active editors: 119.004 in the past month

Coverage

English Wikipedia has the most generally comprehensive and high-quality coverage of human knowledge of any Wikipedia or other encyclopedia, although its quality remains uneven across different areas.[1]

Stärken
  • Breaking news and current events
  • Popular culture
  • Sports
  • Hard sciences
Schwachstellen
  • Social sciences
  • Humanities
  • Arts
  • Geography and culture of non-English-speaking parts of the world

Operation

Eigenschaften
Herausforderungen
  • Combating vandalism and promotional editing
  • Achieving neutrality and maintaining user trust in an increasingly polarized information landscape
  • Addressing systemic bias against women, poor people, non-white people, and other groups underrepresented among editors
Konkurrenten
Language aspects

There is no set standard on the variety of English to use, other than that it should remain consistent within articles. By default, American spellings tend to dominate over British spellings and other varieties.

Geschichte und Auswirkung

Meilensteine/Ereignisse

Auswirkung

  • One of the most trafficked websites in the world,[2] attracting around 1.5 billion visitors per month (as of March 2020)
  • Largest and most comprehensive record of humanity's collective knowledge in history
  • Inspired many other language editions, projects

References