simple english wikipedia - in easy english!

If you find Wikipedia 'too longwinded' - too long, too many words, too complicated, too much!
Tim Dowling: Wikipedia too long-winded for you? Try the simple version | Technology | The Guardian
- then try this alternative:

Simple English Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use shorter sentences and easier grammar than the English Wikipedia.

The Simple English Wikipedia is also for people with different needs. Some examples of people who use Simple English Wikipedia:

• Students
• Children
• Adults who might find it hard to learn or read
• People who are learning English

Other people use the Simple English Wikipedia because the simple language helps them understand hard ideas or topics they do not know about.

When the Simple English Wikipedia began in 2003, the ordinary English Wikipedia already had 150,000 articles, and seven other Wikipedias in other

languages had over 15,000 articles. Since the other Wikipedias already have so many articles, most Simple English articles take articles from other 

Wikipedias and make them simple; they are usually not new articles. Right now, the Simple English Wikipedia has 108,410 articles.

This makes Simple English articles a good way to understand difficult articles from the ordinary English Wikipedia. If someone cannot understand an 

idea in complex English, they can read the Simple English article.

Many articles are shorter than the same articles in the English Wikipedia.^[2] Technical subjects use some terms which are not simple. Every effort is 

made to explain these terms in simple language.

Related pages[change | edit source]

• Simple English Wiktionary

References[change | edit source]

1. Jump up↑ Tim Dowling (January 14, 2008). "Wikipedia too long-winded for you? Try the simple version". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-05-17.

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