|
| num_users = | articles = | content license = (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies | owner = Wikimedia Foundation | author=Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger〔There is some controversy over who founded Wikipedia. Wales considers himself to be the sole founder of Wikipedia and has told the ''Boston Globe'' that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder. However, Sanger strongly contests that description. He was identified as a co-founder of Wikipedia as early as September 2001 and referred to himself as being founder as early as January 2002. * * * 〕 }} The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001, it is the first edition of Wikipedia and, as of November 2015, has the most articles of any of the editions.〔more than twice as many as the next in rank, the Swedish Wikipedia. See :m:List of Wikipedias.〕 As of , nearly % of articles in all Wikipedias belong to the English-language edition. This share has gradually declined from more than 50 percent in 2003, due to the growth of Wikipedias in other languages. There are articles on the site (live count).〔The number of articles on the English Wikipedia is shown by the MediaWiki variable , with all Wikipedias as total = .〕 In October 2015, the combined text of the English Wikipedia's articles totalled 11.5 gigabytes when compressed.〔See size of downloads at Wikipedia:Database download and a list of historical sizes (here )〕 On November 1, 2015, the English Wikipedia announced it had reached 5,000,000 articles and updated its logo to reflect the milestone. The Simple English Wikipedia is a variation in which most of the articles use only basic English vocabulary. There is also the Old English (Ænglisc/Anglo-Saxon) Wikipedia (angwiki). == Pioneering edition == The English Wikipedia was the first Wikipedia edition and has remained the largest. It has pioneered many ideas as conventions, policies or features which were later adopted by some of the other-language Wikipedia editions. These ideas include "featured articles", the neutral-point-of-view policy, navigation templates, the sorting of short "stub" articles into sub-categories, dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration, and weekly collaborations. The English Wikipedia has adopted features from Wikipedias in other languages. These features include verified revisions from the German Wikipedia (dewiki) and town population-lookup templates from the Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki). Although the English Wikipedia stores images and audio files, as well as text files, many of the images have been moved to Wikimedia Commons with the same name, as passed-through files. However, the English Wikipedia also has fair-use images and audio/video files (with copyright restrictions), most of which are not allowed on Commons. Many of the most active participants in the Wikimedia Foundation, and the developers of the MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia, are English Wikipedia users. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「English Wikipedia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|
