Wikipedia in English

Wikipedia in English it is the version in of . Created of and having exceeded the 700.000 articles in August of 2005, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and since then she has been the one of greater size. In , approximately a third of articles of all the Wikipedias belonged to the edition in English. This percentage has been diminishing gradually to approximately half in 2003. It is greater than the two following Wikipedias in number of together articles ( Wikipedia in German and Wikipedia in French).

In the specific controversy on the Wikipedia in English there is a debate on which national variety of the English language must be used, being the greater candidates English American and or English international. The editors have made many suggestions, having extended the alternative use a variety of the English standard to develop the project of the Wikipedia in English. Nevertheless, the standard de facto it consists of preferring an appropriate variety of the English for articles of regional reach (for example, English Canadian for the subjects related to ) but to allow in another case any variety of English, while the variety of the English is constant in all the text of an article.

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