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


Many articles are shorter than the same articles in the English Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2008/WS-08-15/WS08-15-008.pdf |title=Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: Towards a Machine Learning Approach |author=Koen Smets|publisher=University of Antwerp |accessdate=2009-05-17}}</ref> Technical subjects use some terms that are not simple. Editors try to explain these terms in a simple way. 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2008/WS-08-15/WS08-15-008.pdf |title=Automatic Vandalism Detection in Bharatpedia: Towards a Machine Learning Approach |author=Koen Smets|publisher=University of Antwerp |accessdate=2009-05-17}}</ref> Technical subjects use some terms that are not simple. Editors try to explain these terms in a simple way. 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.


When the Simple English Wikipedia started creation of pages and allowing changes in 2003, the [[:en:|ordinary English Wikipedia]] already had 150,000 articles. Seven other Wikipedias in other [[language]]s also 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 {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles. Simple Wikipedia is now the 50th largest Wikipedia.<ref>[[metawiki:List of Wikipedias|Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics]] Retrieved 24 December 2020.</ref>
When the Simple English Wikipedia started creation of pages and allowing changes in 2003, the [[:en:|ordinary English Wikipedia]] already had 150,000 articles. Seven other Wikipedias in other [[language]]s also 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 {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles. Simple Wikipedia is now the 50th largest Wikipedia.<ref>[[metawiki:List of Wikipedias|Wikimedia list of Wikipedias and their statistics]] Retrieved 24 December 2020.</ref>
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