Wikipedia:About
From the Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can change
The Simple English Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia. It is written by lots of people together. The website is a wiki. This means anyone can change any page by clicking on the change this page link. You can do this on any page that is not protected. You can see if the page is protected because it will say view source instead of change this page.
Wikipedia started in January, 2001 and it has over 9,000,000 articles, including 28,807 in simple English. Most of these articles are in languages other than English. Every day hundreds of people from around the world make thousands of changes and create lots of new articles.
Everything that is written on the site is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License. Pages that you write remain your property and the copyleft licensing ensures that people will always be able to use and reproduce the content. See copyrights for more information.
Note: Wikipedia contains content that some people think is mean, vulgar or bad. See the content disclaimer for more information.
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[change] Using Wikipedia
- New changes
- Show any page, a useful link if you do not know where to start.
- New articles
- Featured article candidates, see the best of Wikipedia.
[change] Contributing to Wikipedia
- Welcome, newcomers!, a starting point for new contributors.
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