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Pioneering Edition: Wikipedia:Milestones

The English Wikipedia was the first edition and remains the largest. It has pioneered many ideas like featured articles and neutral point of view that were later adopted by other language editions. The English Wikipedia also stores images and files but many have been moved to Wikimedia Commons, while some remain on the English site due to copyright.

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Pioneering Edition: Wikipedia:Milestones

The English Wikipedia was the first edition and remains the largest. It has pioneered many ideas like featured articles and neutral point of view that were later adopted by other language editions. The English Wikipedia also stores images and files but many have been moved to Wikimedia Commons, while some remain on the English site due to copyright.

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Pioneering edition

See also: Wikipedia:Milestones

The English Wikipedia was the first Wikipedia edition and has remained the largest. It has pioneered
many ideas as conventions, policies or features which were later adopted by Wikipedia editions in
some of the other languages. These ideas include "featured articles", [7] the neutral-point-of-view
policy,[8] navigation templates,[9] the sorting of short "stub" articles into sub-categories, [10] dispute
resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration, [11] and weekly collaborations.[12]
The English Wikipedia has adopted features from Wikipedias in other languages. These features
include verified revisions from the German Wikipedia and town population-lookup templates from
the Dutch Wikipedia.
Although the English Wikipedia stores images and audio files, as well as text files, many of the
images have been moved to Wikimedia Commons with the same name, as passed-through files.
However, the English Wikipedia also has fair-use images and audio/video files (with copyright
restrictions), most of which are not allowed on Commons.
Many of the most active participants in the Wikimedia Foundation, and the developers of
the MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia, are English-speaking users.

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