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Contents
1 Pioneering edition
2 Users and editors
2.1 Arbitration committee
3 Controversies
3.1 Threats against high schools
3.2 Disputed articles
3.3 Varieties of English
4 Wikiprojects, and assessments of articles' importance and quality
5 Graphics
6 Internal news publications
7 See also
8 Footnotes
9 References
10 External links
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",[9] the neutral-
point-of-view policy,[10] navigation templates,[11] the sorting of short
"stub" articles into sub-categories,[12] dispute resolution mechanisms
such as mediation and arbitration,[13] and weekly collaborations.[14]
The English Wikipedia has adopted features from Wikipedias in other
languages. These features include verified revisions from the German
Wikipedia (dewiki) and town population-lookup templates from the
Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki).
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.
Arbitration committee
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]