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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 April 2016, has the most articles of any of the editions.[2]
As of June 2016, nearly 12.9% 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.[3]
There are 5,164,505 articles on the site (live count).[4] In October 2015, the combined text of the English Wikipedia's articles totalled 11.5 gigabytes when compressed.[5] On November 1, 2015, the English Wikipedia announced it had reached 5,000,000 articles[6] and ran a special logo to reflect the milestone.[7] 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/AngloSaxon) Wikipedia (angwiki). Community-produced news publications include
The Signpost.[8]
The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April
2007,[15] just a little over a year since it had crossed a threshold of 1,000,000 registered user accounts in late February 2006.[16]
Over 800,000 editors have edited Wikipedia more than 10 times.[17] 300,000 editors edit Wikipedia every month[citation needed]; of these, over 30,000 perform more than 5 edits per month, and a little over 3,000 perform more than 100 edits per month.[18] By 24 November 2011, a total of 500 million edits had been performed on the English Wikipedia.[citation needed]
As the largest Wikipedia edition, and because English is such a widely used language, the English Wikipedia draws many users and editors whose native language is not English. Such users may seek information from the English
Wikipedia rather than the Wikipedia of their native language because the
English Wikipedia tends to contain more information about general subjects.
Successful collaborations have developed between non-native English speakers who add content to the English Wikipedia and native English speakers who act as copyeditors for them.[citation needed]

Arbitration Committee[edit]
Main article: Arbitration Committee
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.[19] The Committee was created by Jimmy Wales on 4 December 2003 as an extension of the decision-making power he had formerly held as owner of the site.[20][21]

When initially founded, the Committee consisted of 12 arbitrators divided into three groups of four members each.[20][22] Since then, the Committee has gradually expanded to its membership to 18 arbitrators.[23][not in citation given]
Like other aspects of the English Wikipedia, Wikipedia's sister projects have emulated the Arbitration Committee with their own similar versions.[24] For instance, in 2007, an Arbitration Committee was founded on the German
Wikipedia called the Schiedsgericht.[25]