simple.wikipedia.orgWikipedia

Jump to content move to sidebar hide Getting around Main page Simple start Simple talk New changes Show any page Help Contact us Give to About Search Search Create account Log in Personal tools Create account Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more Contributions Talk Main Page Main Page Talk English Read View source View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read View source View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Download QR code Wikidata item Print/export Make a book Download as PDF Page for printing In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki MediaWiki Meta-Wiki Wikimedia Outreach Multilingual Wikisource Wikispecies Wikidata Wikifunctions Wikimania Wiktionary From Simple English , the free encyclopedia Welcome to , the free encyclopedia that anyone can change . Search the 251,598 articles in the Simple English How to write Simple English pages · Useful pages · Simple talk · Categories · Help Schools Gateway (for users who want to make changes from a school) About This is the front page of the Simple English . s are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages. We use Simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English is for everyone, such as children and adults who are learning English. There are 251,598 articles on the Simple English . All of the pages are free to use . They have all been published under both the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 4.0 International License and the GNU Free Documentation License . You can help here! You may change these pages and make new pages. Read the help pages and other good pages to learn how to write pages here . If you need help, you may ask questions at Simple talk . When writing articles here: Use Basic English words and shorter sentences. This allows people to understand complex terms or phrases. Write good pages. The best encyclopedia pages have useful, well-written information. Use the pages to learn and teach. These pages can help people learn English. You can also use them to make a new to help other people. Simple does not mean short. Writing in Simple English means that simple words are used. It does not mean readers want basic information. Articles do not have to be short to be simple; expand articles, add details, but use basic vocabulary . Be bold! Your article does not have to be perfect, because other editors will fix it and make it better. And most importantly, do not be afraid to start and make articles better yourself. Selected article Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System . It is an ice giant . It is the fourth-largest planet in the system. Neptune’s mass is 17 times Earth’s mass and a little bit more than Uranus’ mass. Neptune is denser and smaller than Uranus. Its greater mass makes its gravity make its atmosphere smaller and denser . It was named after the Roman god of the sea, Neptune . Neptune’s astronomical symbol is ♆, the trident of the god Neptune. Neptune’s atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium . It also contains small amounts of methane which makes the planet appear blue. Neptune’s blue color is much darker than the color of Uranus . Neptune also has the strongest winds of any planet in the Solar System, as high as 2,100 km/h or 1,300 mph. Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams were the astronomers who discovered Neptune. Neptune was not discovered using a telescope . It was the first planet to be discovered using mathematics . In 1821, astronomers saw that Uranus ’ orbit was different from what they expected. Another nearby planet’s mass was changing Uranus’ orbit. They found Neptune was the cause. Voyager 2 visited Neptune on 25 August 1989. It was the only spacecraft to visit the planet. Neptune used to have a huge storm known as the " Great Dark Spot ". Voyager 2 discovered the spot in 1989. The dark spot was not seen in 1994, but new spots were found since then. It is not known why the dark spot disappeared. Visits by other space probes have been planned. Neptune has five rings. These rings are hard to see from the Earth. more... Other very good articles – Proposals – Requirements Did you know... From a collection of ’s articles: ... that because of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (pictured) the League of Nations was founded and he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919? ... that Antarctica is the largest and coldest desert ? ... that at age 52, Shinzo Abe was the youngest person elected as prime minister of Japan in its post-war history? ... that sometime during the 17th century, the decorated walking stick replaced the sword carried by aristocrats as a status symbol? ... that in some cultures, women would sometimes be naked until marriage , because people thought they had nothing to hide? ... that even though they were first described in 1839, hamsters were not successfully bred and domesticated until 1939? Archives – Start a new article – Nominate an article Knowledge groups Applied sciences Architecture (building) • Communication • Electronics • Engineering • Farming • Health • Industry • Medicine • Transport • Weather People and social studies Anthropology (study of people) • Archaeology (history of civilization) • Geography • Education • History • Language • Philosophy (abstract ideas) • Psychology • Sociology • Teaching Daily life, art and culture Animation • Art • Book • Cooking • Custom • Culture • Dance • Family • Games • Gardening • Leisure (free time) • Movies and films • Music • Radio • Sports • Theater • Travel • Television Natural sciences and maths Algebra • Astronomy (stars and space) • Biology (animals and plants) • Chemistry • Computer science • Earth science • Ecology • Geometry • Mathematics • Physics • Statistics • Zoology (study of animals) Government and law Copyright • Defense • Economics (trade and business) • Government • Human rights • Laws • Military • Politics • Trade Religions and beliefs Atheism • Bahá’í • Buddhism • Christianity • Esotericism • Hinduism • Islam • Jainism • Judaism • Mythology • Paganism • Sect • Sikhism • Taoism • Theology Sister projects is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation , a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects : In Simple English : Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Commons Free media repository Wikispecies Directory of species Wikidata Free knowledge base In Regular English : English Wikinews Free-content news Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Wikiquote Collection of quotations Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals Wikisource Free-content library Wikiversity Free learning resources Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination Wikivoyage Free travel guide MediaWiki Wiki software development See the pages of the Wikimedia Foundation Governance wiki , too. Other languages 5,000,000 articles or more English • Cebuano (Cebuano) 1,000,000 articles or more العربية (Arabic) • مصرى (Egyptian Arabic) • Deutsch (German) • español (Spanish) • français (French) • italiano (Italian) • 日本語 (Japanese) • Nederlands (Dutch) • polski (Polish) • português (Portuguese) • русский (Russian) • svenska (Swedish) • українська (Ukrainian) • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) • Winaray (Waray) • 中文 (Chinese) 500,000 articles or more català (Catalan) • нохчийн (Chechen) • čeština (Czech) • فارسی (Persian) • suomi (Finnish) • magyar (Hungarian) • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) • 한국어 (Korean) • norsk (Norwegian) • српски / srpski (Serbian) • Türkçe (Turkish) 100,000 articles or more Simple English • Afrikaans (Afrikaans) • asturianu (Asturian) • azərbaycanca (Azerbaijani) • تۆرکجه (South Azerbaijani) • беларуская (Belarusian) • български (Bulgarian) • বাংলা (Bangla) • Cymraeg (Welsh) • dansk (Danish) • Ελληνικά (Greek) • Esperanto (Esperanto) • eesti (Estonian) • euskara (Basque) • galego (Galician) • עברית (Hebrew) • हिन्दी (Hindi) • hrvatski (Croatian) • հայերեն (Armenian) • ქართული...