We are experienced former Wikipedia editors who have created this site in the belief that the wiki model of collaboration was a success in quickly starting an online encyclopedia, but is not a sustainable model for maintaining a reliable one.
What we are not
Engole is not a Wikipedia mirror, and we do not allow “anyone to edit”. About twenty per cent of our content has no equivalent on Wikipedia, and the rest, much of which we wrote ourselves while on Wikipedia, has all been improved in terms of accuracy, sourcing and general readability, something that is inordinately contentious under the policy of “anyone can edit”.
We do not, and never will, publish articles on the biographies of living persons. So you won’t find an article on Nigella Lawson if you’re searching for a list of “english cooks”, but you will find articles on Elizabeth Raffald
18th-century English entrepreneur, author of The Experienced English Housekeeper, and possible inventor of the Eccles cake., Martha Bradley
18th-century English cook, author of The British Housewife. and Mary Eales
18th-century writer on cookery and confectionery, author of Mrs Mary Eales's Receipts (1718). Neither will you find stub articles on Japanese railway stations, or abandoned villages in Vietnam. But that doesn’t mean we ignore current events, such as the recently announced restoration of Southport Pier
Pleasure pier in Southport, Merseyside, England. Opened in August 1860, it is the oldest iron pier in the country..
It’s worth noting that of the English Wikipedia’s 7 million articles as at November 2025, 37 per cent are make-work “List of …” pages, which we have no need of owing to our use of a more intelligent search engine. Or to put it another way, 2.6 million English Wikipedia articles are a waste of electrons. In addition, it has been reported that the majority of article pages in the English Wikipedia are redirects, so that figure of 7 million articles needs to be taken with a very large pinch of salt.[1] To be fair, the English Wikipedia in reality probably has somewhere between 2 and 3 million articles, which is a significant accomplishment. Or it would be if so many of them weren’t unmaintained, poorly cited and out of date.
We do not have the hubris to claim that we will ever be a repository of all human knowledge, an impossible goal. Our aim is to provide reliable information on those topics that we do cover, fully supported by good quality references to source material that provides the reader with opportunities for further research. And we use a consistent, centralised citation system, and continuously monitor for link rot, so any broken links are quickly updated.
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