Editing Simple English Wikipedia (section)

== Website structure ==

The articles on the Simple English Wikipedia are usually shorter than their [[English Wikipedia]] counterparts, typically presenting only basic information. Tim Dowling of ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper explained that "the Simple English version tends to stick to commonly accepted facts".<ref name=dowling/> The interface is also more simply labeled; for instance, the "Random article" link on the English Wikipedia is replaced with a "Show any page" link; users are invited to "change" rather than "edit" pages; clicking on a [[Wikipedia:Red link|red link]] shows a "page not created" message rather than the usual "page does not exist".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/howwikipediawork00ayer_0|url-access=registration|title=How Wikipedia works: and how you can be a part of it|last1=Ayers|first1=Phoebe|author-link1=Phoebe Ayers|last2=Matthews|first2=Charles|last3=Yates|first3=Ben|publisher=No Starch Press|year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/howwikipediawork00ayer_0/page/417 417]|isbn=9781593271763 }}</ref> The project encourages, but does not enforce, the use of a vocabulary of around 1,500 commonly used English words<ref name=adolescent/> that is based on [[Basic English]], an 850-word controlled natural language created by [[Charles Kay Ogden]] in the 1920s.<ref name=dowling>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,,2240303,00.html|title=Wikipedia too long-winded for you? Try the simple version|author=Tim Dowling|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=14 January 2008|access-date=17 May 2009}}</ref>