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I've always thought "English" was British and "Simple english" was the U.S.

@AttundaViking HHHHA! totes. XD

@AttundaViking Agreed

@AttundaViking Dayum son, that is one sick burn.

@AttundaViking it's very rare, but sometimes you'll see
[UK flag] English (traditional)
[US Flag] English (simplified)

of course, us Scots are impossible mode

@zhouhuanyue Only the Weegies. The rest of you are fairly easy to understand

One of the reasons Sweden has so many articles is because they have importet multiple Species databanks and have an article to virtually every species and it is great if you work in biology

This fan art is definitely one of my favorites on the site.

But am I weird if I think it’s a bit funny?

@historyGeek this made my day

en.wikipedia uses British English so technically, he's got a point

Oh, that's fantastic! *goes to look at Wikipedia in Anglo-Saxon, because why not*

Cmon England look at how happy he is! Let him have this. You won’t let him be proud of landing on the moon!

I checked online, apparently the reason Cebuano is so high up is because several separate people made bots to post Wikipedia articles in the language, to encourage people to edit them. Apparently, most of Cebuano Wikipedia is just one sentence blurbs.

@korben600 As someone who speaks some dialects of the Filipino language, yes, I can confirm. I usually read on Wikipedia when bored, and despite Cebuano having more "articles" Tagalog Wikipedia tends to be much more informative than its Cebuano counterpart.

Still, the Tagalog Wikipedia, alongside the Waray Wikipedia still has the "one-sentence article stubs", just a tad bit less than its Cebuano counterpart, which, of course, is the worst offender in the world of Philippine Wikipedia.

Thankfully, the problem was less prominent in the Kapampangan, Chavacano, and Pangasinense dialects, which weren't too involved in the "article-war" between the Cebuano, Tagalog, and Waray dialects.

And to end this with good news, the Ilokano and Bikolano Wikipedias managed to be mostly free of this problem.

@korben600 Is there a particular reason for swedish being up there too ?

Our language does not even deserve to be in the top 100 articles.
We have an impossible Viking gibberish language.







But at least it's not Welsh.
(No offence to Welsh people, but your language is even more impossible to learn than mine. Sorry)

Btw, for https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias sort by edits.. It makes so much more sense:

1 English English en 5,752,688 46,363,238 864,386,956 1,200 34,970,949 135,890 880,411 929
4 German Deutsch de 2,239,405 6,274,511 181,631,998 190 3,048,800 19,644 128,701 94
5 French Français fr 2,057,194 9,854,939 153,531,958 157 3,272,171 19,209 56,036 224
8 Spanish Español es 1,487,790 6,515,570 111,583,950 73 5,221,678 18,309 0 196
9 Italian Italiano it 1,476,778 5,997,258 100,719,132 111 1,741,920 8,387 141,832 157

Otherwise a few wierd wps that are just trying to optimize for this list gets listed in the top.

@Carewolf Hum... Is this really a thing ? Are there really people trying to rank on top of that list ?
But I agree, this list should probably be ranked by edits. Cebuano and sweden obviously have way too more articles compared to the amount of edits/admins/users/active users... So it probably means that most of these articles aren't worth reading or that they have few VERY active users but then again it means most articles present only one side of the truth...

3k articles in anglo saxon