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English Wikipedia
	Screenshot ; The homepage of the English Wikipedia.
URL	http://en.wikipedia.org/
Slogan	The Free Encyclopedia
Commercial?	Charitable
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Content license	Creative Commons ShareAlike License 3.0
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger
Launched	15 January 2001

The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009,^[2] it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with more than three times as many articles as the next largest, the German Wikipedia. As of 2009^[update], 22.3% of articles in all Wikipedias belong to the English language edition; this share has gradually declined from more than 50% in 2003, due to the growth of Wikipedias in other languages.^[3] There are currently 3,101,038 articles on the site.

The English Wikipedia has an Arbitration Committee (also known as ArbCom) that consists of a panel of editors that imposes binding rulings with regard to disputes between other editors of the online encyclopedia.^[4] The Committee of 12 arbitrators was created by Jimmy Wales on December 4, 2003 as an extension of the decision-making power he had formerly held as owner of the site.^[5]^[6]^[5]^[7] Like other aspects of the English Wikipedia, Wikipedia's sister projects have emulated the Arbitration Committee with their own similar versions. In 2007, an Arbitration Committee was founded on the German Wikipedia called the Schiedsrichter.^[8]

[edit] Notes and references

^ There is some controversy over who founded Wikipedia. Wikipedia's official personnel page from September 2001 states Wales and Sanger were the two or three co-founders, and that there was no editor-in-chief. 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 at least as early as September 2001 and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002.
- Jonathan Sidener (6 December 2004). "Everyone's Encyclopedia". San Diego Union Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041206/news_mz1b6encyclo.html. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- Peter Meyers (2001-09-20). "Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E5D6123BF933A1575AC0A9679C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fC%2fComputer%20Software. Retrieved 2006-10-15.
- Sanger, Larry. "What Wikipedia is and why it matters". http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_and_why_it_matters&oldid=149626. Retrieved 2006-04-12.
^ Johnson, Bobbie (2009-08-17). "English Wikipedia hits three million articles". guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/aug/17/wikipedia-three-million. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
^ Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (2008-09-21). "List of Wikipedias". http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Wikipedias&oldid=520778. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
^ Schiff, Stacy (2006-12-02). "Know-alls". The Age. Fairfax Digital Network. http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/democracy-for-knowalls/2006/11/30/1164777721624.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
^ ^a ^b Wales, Jimmy (2003-12-04). "WikiEN-l Wikiquette committee appointments". Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. http://markmail.org/message/komcldyapats43xj#query:+page:1+mid:komcldyapats43xj+state:results. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
^ Hoffman, David A.; Salil Mehra (2010). "Wikitruth Through Wikiorder". Emory Law Journal 59 (2010). http://ssrn.com/abstract=1354424. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
^ Hyatt, Josh (2006-06-01). "Secrets of Greatness: Great Teams". Fortune. Time Warner. http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/31/magazines/fortune/mysql_greatteams_fortune/index.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
^ Kleinz, Torsten (2007-04-30). "Wikipedia sucht Schiedsrichter" (in German). heise online. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wikipedia-sucht-Schiedsrichter--/meldung/89083. Retrieved 2009-06-09.

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[foundercontroversy-0] There is some controversy over who founded Wikipedia. Wikipedia's official personnel page from September 2001 states Wales and Sanger were the two or three co-founders, and that there was no editor-in-chief. 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 at least as early as September 2001 and referred to himself that way as early as January 2002.

Jonathan Sidener (6 December 2004). "Everyone's Encyclopedia". San Diego Union Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041206/news_mz1b6encyclo.html. Retrieved 2006-10-15.

Peter Meyers (2001-09-20). "Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E5D6123BF933A1575AC0A9679C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fC%2fComputer%20Software. Retrieved 2006-10-15.

Sanger, Larry. "What Wikipedia is and why it matters". http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_and_why_it_matters&oldid=149626. Retrieved 2006-04-12.

[2] Jonathan Sidener (6 December 2004). "Everyone's Encyclopedia". San Diego Union Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041206/news_mz1b6encyclo.html. Retrieved 2006-10-15.

[3] Peter Meyers (2001-09-20). "Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E5D6123BF933A1575AC0A9679C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fC%2fComputer%20Software. Retrieved 2006-10-15.

[4] Sanger, Larry. "What Wikipedia is and why it matters". http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_and_why_it_matters&oldid=149626. Retrieved 2006-04-12.

[1] Johnson, Bobbie (2009-08-17). "English Wikipedia hits three million articles". guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/aug/17/wikipedia-three-million. Retrieved 2009-08-17.

[2] Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (2008-09-21). "List of Wikipedias". http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Wikipedias&oldid=520778. Retrieved 2008-09-21.

[AU-3] Schiff, Stacy (2006-12-02). "Know-alls". The Age. Fairfax Digital Network. http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/democracy-for-knowalls/2006/11/30/1164777721624.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2. Retrieved 2009-06-15.

[Wales1-4] Wales, Jimmy (2003-12-04). "WikiEN-l Wikiquette committee appointments". Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. http://markmail.org/message/komcldyapats43xj#query:+page:1+mid:komcldyapats43xj+state:results. Retrieved 2009-06-09.

[SSRN-5] Hoffman, David A.; Salil Mehra (2010). "Wikitruth Through Wikiorder". Emory Law Journal 59 (2010). http://ssrn.com/abstract=1354424. Retrieved 2009-06-09.

[Fortune-6] Hyatt, Josh (2006-06-01). "Secrets of Greatness: Great Teams". Fortune. Time Warner. http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/31/magazines/fortune/mysql_greatteams_fortune/index.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-15.

[dewiki-2007-7] Kleinz, Torsten (2007-04-30). "Wikipedia sucht Schiedsrichter" (in German). heise online. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wikipedia-sucht-Schiedsrichter--/meldung/89083. Retrieved 2009-06-09.

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