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Well-known or popular subjects on Wikipedia are often represented in many different languages, as shown by the language bar on the left side of such articles. Below are merely examples, not an all-inclusive ranking, of Wikipedia articles covered on at least 100 of the 353 Wikipedia sites that exist as of December 2024.
Articles start with a lead section (WP:CREATELEAD) summarising the most important points of the topic.The lead section is the first part of the article; it comes above the first header, and may contain a lead image which is representative of the topic, and/or an infobox that provides a few key facts, often statistical, such as dates and measurements.
Wikipedia article titles and section headings use sentence case, not title case; see Wikipedia:Article titles and § Section headings. For capitalization of list items, see § Bulleted and numbered lists. Other points concerning capitalization are summarized below. Full information can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters.
Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, [3] [4] and is consistently ranked among the ten most visited websites; as of August 2024, it was ranked fourth by Semrush, [5] and seventh by Similarweb. [6]
The following list includes additional standardized sections in an article. A complete article need not have all, or even most, of these elements. Before the article content Short description [1] {{DISPLAYTITLE}}, {{Lowercase title}}, {{Italic title}} [2] (some of these may also be placed before the infobox [3] or after the infobox [4]) Hatnotes
The guidelines for article titles for languages are at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages). In short, most language articles should be titled XXX language. Reasons for this recommendation: Ambiguity. While some language have special forms that refer unambiguously to the language, English is inherently ambiguous about language names.
A number of proposed or inactive language-specific guidelines exist, but they are not listed here; there are language-specific guidelines for several languages including Korean, Chinese and Hebrew; most issues are instead covered by naming conventions. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles (MOS:CA)
The title of an article should generally use the version of the name of the subject that is most common in the English language, as you would find it in reliable sources (for example other encyclopedias and reference works, scholarly journals, and major news sources). This makes it easy to find, and easy to compare information with other sources.