Simple English Wikipedia
When Simple English Wikipedia started making pages and allowing changes in 2003, the English Wikipedia already had 150,000 articles. Seven other Wikipedias in other languages also had over 15,000 articles. Because the other Wikipedias already have a lot of articles, most Simple English articles are not new. They are usually simpler versions of articles from the ordinary English Wikipedia. Right now, the Simple English Wikipedia has  articles. The Simple English Wikipedia started on September 18, 2001, and is the 47th-largest Wikipedia, as of January 2023.