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Welcome! Wikipedia is a project to make an encyclopedia in many languages. On this site, we only use simple English words and simple grammar.

All content is free for use (open content); this is explained in the GNU Free Document License.

Over 500,000 articles have been written since 2001. There are 220000 articles in simple English.

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Aims

To make pages easy to read by people who speak English poorly
To make pages that are easy to translate, first the simplest sections, but which are still complete encyclopedia articles.

Guidelines

Only add text which is released under the terms of the GFDL. See Wikipedia:copyrights for more information.
If a word is a name, an idiom, or jargon, then explain it on a new webpage.
Try to use easy or common words. Your writing must be simple and easy to understand. Change words and use shorter clauses than you normally would. Use simple, short sentences.
Edit any page to add new information, or to make it more simple.

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