Wikipedia:Welcome

From Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading.

Welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia! We hope that you are happy editing here and being a Wikipedian.

Some helpful pages are:

If you want to meet and talk with other members, you can visit our version of the "village pump" at Wikipedia:Simple talk. Just remember that you should sign your messages on Talk pages by typing "~~~~" at the end of your words.

We have a special page that describes how to write Simple English articles. If you want some ideas of which pages to work on, read Wikipedia:Requested articles.


Non-native English speakers are welcome to work on Simple English Wikipedia. To write there you need some English, because all our articles are in English. For many writers here English is not their first language.

What non-native English speakers write on Simple English Wikipedia is special and valuable. Wikipedia does not have many articles on their cultures and they can give more information.

The standard of English in their articles is varied.

  • Some need a lot of editing to correct grammar and spelling.
  • Some need editing to find the meaning.
  • Some just give a non-English feeling to the articles. Some readers like this.

Native speakers will help and correct articles; don't feel bad if they change your article. They probably can't speak your language as well as you speak English.