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This page details various records of Wikipedia and is constantly updated as legitimate records are added by various users.
Beginnings
- First page and edit: HomePage on 19:27, 15 January 2001
- First non-stub/list article: AfghanistaN[a] on 16 January 2001
- First named user: ScottMoonen[b] on 16 January 2001[c]
- User with the earliest creation date per Special:ListUsers: WojPob on 29 January 2001
- User with ID number 1:[d][e] Damian Yerrick on 29 September 2001
- First female contributor:[f] RoseParks[g]
- First named female contributor: GaythaLanglois on 17 January 2001
- First biographical article: ThomasReid on 00:10, 17 January 2001
- First biographical article of a living person: William Alston[h] on 00:13, 17 January 2001
- First biographical article to be updated after the subject's death: Jack Lemmon on 22:55, 28 June 2001[i][j][k]
- First image: http://www.8ung.at/hansjoergbrugger/geige.gif on 19:03, 19 January 2001[l]
- First JPG: http://www.lclark.edu/~nilsen/nilsenfam.jpg at HumanComputerInteraction on 10:12:44, 25 January 2001
- First PNG:[m] turtle.png[n] at Logo (programming language) on 30 March 2001[o]
- First PNG with full URLs: http://www.pobratyn.com/data/wikipedia-banner.png and http://www.pobratyn.com/data/wikipedia-banner2.png at User:WojPob/banners on 12 June 2001[o][p]
- First SVG: File:Cirles of confusion lens diagram.svg on 13 January 2003
- First used picture to be officially hosted on Wikipedia's servers: http://www.wikipedia.com/images/eca311.jpg at Golden Gate Bridge on 31 July 2001
- First image uploaded to MediaWiki: mark_twain.jpg[q][r]
- First featured article (FA):[s] TheCanonofScripture, MathematicalGrouP, and NewZealand on 23:53, 21 January 2001
- First redirect: SnowBOARDING[t]
- First attempted free link: [[test]] on 28 January 2001[u]
- Oldest surviving edit without intervention:[y] UuU[a] on 20:08, 16 January 2001
- First page deletion: AfGhanistan on 24 January 2001[z]
- First subpage: AtlasShrugged/TaggartTranscontinental on 29 January 2001[aa]
- Revision with ID number 1:[ab][y] Wikipedia:Wikipedians on 14:25, 26 January 2002
- Last surviving article created in the main namespace by an anonymous user:[f] Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana on 5 December 2005[ac]
- First edit made from outer space: List of spacewalks since 2015 by Astro Christina on 18:16, 17 November 2019[ad]
Oldest pages in each namespace
All were originally in the main namespace unless otherwise stated. Fill in each namespace's record iff found. Omit the prefix.
- Main: HomePage on 19:27, 15 January 2001
- Talk: Christianity/Archive 1 on 26 January 2001[ae]
- User: ScottMoonen on 16 January 2001
- User talk: Damian Yerrick on 1 October 2001[af]
- Wikipedia: UuU on 16 January 2001
- Wikipedia talk: Contents/CategorySchemesTalk on 27 January 2001[ag]
- File: Europeanunion-med.png[ah] on 11:49, 20 July 2002[ai]
- Template: {{Periodic table}} on 02:27, 30 September 2002
- Special: RecentChanges on 16 January 2001[aj]
- Category: World War II on 03:59, 30 May 2004[ak]
First Main Page section appearances
- First main page version: 15 January 2001, only saying "This is the new WikiPedia!"[al]
- First event on In the news:[f] September 11 attacks on 11 September 2001[am]
- First recent death:[f] Dudley Moore on 27 March 2002[an]
- First (and only as of 2021) {{In the news/special-header}}: 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, from 16 March 2020 to 29 January 2021
- First On this day: 21 October 2002 (linked article version)
- First Today's featured article (TFA): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 22 February 2004
- First Did you know (DYK): Pencil sharpener on 22 February 2004
- First Picture of the day: Virgin River Narrows (pictured) on 14 May 2004
- First Today's featured list: List of signs and symptoms of diving disorders on 13 June 2011
Articles
- Longest article revision ever: List of named minor planets (numerical) on 17:09, 2 December 2016 (2,045,391 bytes)
- Longest current articles
- that is a list or timeline: List of Latin words with English derivatives (577,495 bytes as of 3 May 2021)
- that is not a list or timeline: 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election (467,007 bytes as of 3 May 2021)
- that is a biography: Donald Trump (421,819 bytes as of 3 May 2021)
- that is a non-political biography: Cristiano Ronaldo (387,782 bytes as of 3 May 2021)
- that is a featured list: List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (402,231 bytes as of 4 March 2021)
- that is a featured article: Barack Obama (365,105 bytes as of 4 March 2021)
- that is a good article (GA): Gianluigi Buffon (348,873 bytes as of 4 March 2021)
- Longest article at creation date: List of named minor planets (numerical) on 02:01, 2 November 2016 (2,024,726 bytes)
- Articles with the most references
- that is a list: List of lakes of Ontario: B (2,213 references as of 13 March 2021)
- that is a biography: Joseph Stalin (934 references as of 4 March 2021)
- that is neither a list nor a biography: Sutton Hoo helmet (832 references as of 4 March 2021)
- Most-used footnote in an article: List of Russula species (1,162 pointers to one reference as of 8 February 2020)
- Most hatnotes for one article: Standard 52-card deck (10 hatnotes on 10:25, 3 June 2019)
- Longest table of contents: Winning streak (602 headings on 00:59, 28 October 2018)[ao]
- Longest time an article had no sources of any kind: Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night from 22 August 2001 to 13 June 2021 (19 years, 295 days)
- Longest time an article had no inline or explicitly-cited sources: Ditto
- Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace:[y] Christian Huygens from 14:32, 27 February 2002 to 02:04, 7 May 2021 (19 years, 69 days)
- Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace that is not a redirect page:[f] Granger-Thye Act of 1950 from 00:00, 14 September 2009 to 21:43, 5 July 2019 (9 years, 294 days)[ap]
- Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace discounting bot edits:[f] Buck Island from 11:32, 31 January 2009 to 17:00, 26 March 2019 (10 years, 54 days)
- Longest time between the creation of an article and its talk page:
- For a non-redirect: Celestial globe, created by an unknown user between 20 December 2001 and 25 January 2002,[aq] talk page created on 6 July 2020. However, this was a redirect between July 2005, when WikiProject tags on talk pages were uncommon, and November 2016.
- For an article that has never been a redirect: Theatre Owners Booking Association, created on 10 May 2005, talk page created on 24 December 2020
- For a redirect: PopularMusic, created as an article on 16 January 2001, talk page created on 6 July 2020
- Largest article talk page including archives: Donald Trump (19.28 MB as of 11 December 2020)
- Most archives of a main namespace talk page: Jesus (133 as of 19 April 2020)
- Most archives of a non-main namespace talk page: Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship (258 as of 4 March 2021)
- Most archives of a non-main namespace non-talk page: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (1,060 as of 4 March 2021)
- Longest continuously-featured article: Byzantine Empire[ar][as]
- Shortest FA ever: Tropical Depression Ten (2005) on 23:02, 7 December 2019 (8,762 bytes)[at]
- Shortest current FA: How Brown Saw the Baseball Game (10,155 bytes as of 4 March 2021)
- Shortest current GA: M-105 (Michigan highway) (3,198 bytes as of 4 March 2021)
- Most successful FA nominations by a Wikipedian: Wehwalt (169 nominations)
- Most successful DYK nominations by a Wikipedian: Encyclopædius[au] (1,667 nominations)
- Shortest time between article creation and appearance on the Main Page in DYK:[f] Benjamin Loxley, created at 14:15, 24 July 2015 (UTC) by Doug Coldwell and added to the Main Page at 01:20, 26 July 2015 (UTC). (36 hours and 5 minutes)
- Longest time between FA promotion and appearance on Main Page as TFA: Crawford expedition from 23 November 2006 to 25 May 2019 (12 years, 183 days)
Views
The most viewed pages of Wikipedia before 2007 remain unknown, though the multiyear ranking of most viewed pages gives views for top 100 pages since 2007.
Cumulative views
- Most visited page: Main Page, followed by Special:Search and Special:Random
- Most visited article:[av] Wiki, followed by Facebook and then YouTube[aw]
- Most visited article that is not about a website: Donald Trump, followed by United States and then Barack Obama
- Most visited article that is not about a website nor related specifically to the United States: India, followed by Elizabeth II and then World War II
Single-day views
Typically, the most visited page on a single day is the Main Page. From 21 July to 16 August 2016, the page averaged 58,900,479 views per day, far more views than any other page.
- Most visited article on a single day:[av] Chadwick Boseman on 29 August 2020 (9,929,065 views)[ax]
- Most visited article on a single day that was not just after the subject's death: Donald Trump on 9 November 2016 (6,125,896 views)[ay]
Edits
- Most edited pages (as of 6 January 2021)
- in any namespace: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (1,705,849 edits)
- in the Main namespace: List of WWE personnel (53,116 edits)
- Most edited page in the Main namespace that is not a list: George W. Bush (47,184 edits)
- in Talk: Main Page (149,605 edits)
- in User: Cyde/List of candidates for speedy deletion/Subpage (991,611 edits)
- in User talk: Jimbo Wales (159,132 edits)
- in Wikipedia talk: Did you know (99,268 edits)
- in MediaWiki talk: Spam-blacklist (22,935 edits)
- in Template: Cratstats (100,014 edits)
- in Template talk: Did you know (374,122 edits)
- in Portal: Current events/Sports (41,643 edits)
- in Help talk: Citation Style 1 (23,671 edits)
- in Draft: Sandbox (48,887 edits)
- in Module: Syrian Civil War detailed map (18,324 edits)
- Most-edited namespace:[f] Main
- Least-edited namespace: Gadget (2 edits)[az]
- Article edited by the largest number of users:[f] Wikipedia (13,671 editors)[ba]
- Article edited by the largest number of users outside of the mainspace:[f] Wikipedia:Sandbox (12,024 editors)[bb]
- Article unedited for the longest time: See Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles
- Most edits to one article in a single day: 7 July 2005 London bombings (2,857 edits in 24 hours)[bc]
- Most edits by a bot: WP 1.0 bot (7,068,624 edits as of 18 April 2020)
- Most edits by a Wikipedian: Ser Amantio di Nicolao (4,200,390 edits as of 2 May 2021)[bd]
- Most edits by an IP address: 68.39.174.238 (26,843 edits as of 19 April 2020)
- Largest single contributing edit by a Wikipedian: List of named minor planets (numerical) by Rfassbind on 02:01, 2 November 2016 (+2,024,726 bytes)
- Longest time between site-wide edits:[f] Approximately 43 hours between 16:00, 6 June 2004 and 02:40, 8 June 2004[be]
- Longest time between site-wide edits not due to software issues or blackouts:[f] 68,424 seconds (19 hours and 24 seconds) between an edit to UnitedStates by office.bomis.com on 23:47:31, 15 January 2001 and another edit to UnitedStates by office.bomis.com on 18:47:55, 16 January 2001
Title length
Articles with the longest titles
The MediaWiki software limits the length of the titles to 255 bytes, thus some titles that would be longer than the ones in the table below are not included. For instance, the full title of When the Pawn... would be 445 bytes.
- Longest article title: Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles (253 characters)
- Longest article title without spaces: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon (183 characters)
- Longest full typed number with an article: 4,294,967,295
Articles with the shortest titles
- 36 articles with titles of a single ASCII character: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
- 132 articles with titles of a single Unicode character: À, Á, Ã, Â, Ä, Å, Ą, Æ, È, É, Ê, Ë, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ò, Õ, Ó, Ö, Ø, Ú, Û, Ü, Ā, Ă, Ć, Ĉ, Ċ, Č, Ç, Ď, Ė, Ě, Ĝ, Ğ, Ġ, Ĥ, Ĵ, Ń, Ň, Ñ, ʼn, Ŕ, Ř, Ś, Ŝ, ß, Ť, Ŭ, Ź, Ż, Ɓ, Ƃ, Ƅ, Ƈ, Ɗ, Ƌ, Ə, Ƒ, Ɨ, Ƙ, Ɯ, Ɲ, Ɵ, Ơ, Ƥ, Ƭ, Ʈ, Ư, Ʊ, Ʋ, Ƴ, Ƹ, Ƽ, Ǧ, Ǩ, Ȋ, Ȥ, Ȧ, Ȳ, Ý, Ɪ ,ݙ ,ݭ, ॰, Ḍ, Ḑ, Ḥ, Ḫ, Ḱ, Ḷ, Ḿ, Ṛ, Ṣ, Ṭ, Ẋ, Ẓ, Ž, Ẽ, ←, ↑, →, ↓, ∂, ∆, ≡, ≤, ⊿, ✕, ⱺ, 了, 京, 侍, 內, 兩, 剣, 圓, 林, 桂, 申, 神, 膾, 蜀, 道, 郡, 部, 鄂, 酒, 阝, 餅, 鲁
Links
Record | Page | Number | As of | Note |
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Page linked to by most other pages | Wikipedia:Sandbox | 6,803,328 | 10 January 2021 | [bf] |
Article in main namespace with most inbound links | Network address translation | 2,355,236 | 10 January 2021 | [bg] |
Article or redirect linked to by most other articles | ISBN (identifier) | 1,226,401 links | 19 January 2021 | [bh] |
Article linked to by most other articles in their own source text (not via templates) | United States | 387,000 links (approx.) | 19 January 2021 | [bi] |
Most distinct outgoing links[bj] (list or list-like article) | Index of Singapore-related articles | 12,289 | 12 April 2021 | [2] |
Most distinct outgoing links[bj] (not a list or list-like article) | Classical Hollywood cinema | 4,191 | 12 April 2021 | [2] |
Article in most categories | Forced Labour Convention | 285 | 29 March 2021 | [bk] |
Non-convention article in most categories | Bertrand Russell | 201 | 5 February 2021 | |
Most external links in one article[f] | List of MeSH codes (D02) | 2,541 | 5 February 2021 | |
Longest-lasting red link on Wikipedia | Nourredine Boudiafi and Chaabane Younes on Portal:Current events/2005 January 4 | Created 25 September 2005 | 17 May 2021 | |
Longest lasting red link in an article | Islamic Armed Movement on Abdelhak Layada | Created 28 June 2006 | 17 May 2021 | |
Image linked on most pages | File:Information.svg | 8,159,474 | 5 February 2021 |
Disambiguation pages
- Disambiguation pages with the most "may refer to" entries as of 13 February 2020:[bl]
Page Entries St. Mary's Church 782 Aliabad 522 Hoseynabad 501 Communist Party (disambiguation) 331 Hasanabad 310
- Set index article (not quite the same as a disambiguation page) with the most entries: List of television episodes titled Pilot (1641 entries as of 6 February 2021)
Consensus participation
Requests for adminship
- Latest unopposed request for adminship (RfA): Trialpears on 13 June 2021
- Latest unanimous (no opposes or neutrals) RfA: Ditto
- Most !votes on an RfA: Floquenbeam 2 in July 2019 (456 !votes)
Languages
- First language Wikipedia created: English on 15 January 2001
- Latest language Wikipedia created as of 26 March 2021: Taroko Wikipedia on 16 March 2021
- Article in the largest number of languages, including English (apart from the Main Page)
- excluding test wikis: Finland (309 languages)
- including test wikis: Kurów (363 languages)
- Article in the largest number of languages, but not in English:[f] Maria Gomes Valentim (17 languages)
- Featured article on the most different language Wikipedias: Solar System (22 languages)
- Featured article in the largest number of language Wikipedias but not in English: World War II (18 languages)
- Language with the highest percentage of featured articles: Italian Wikipedia (3.7%)
- Featured topic on the most different language Wikipedias: Fill in if found
Files
Pictures
- Article with most pictures: B8 polytope (2,429 images)
- Most used picture
- in main namespace articles: File:Information.svg (4,776,141 times)
- counting only links from main namespace articles: File:Question book-new.svg (407,468 times)
- Most edited picture: File:UTC hue4map X world Robinson.png (135 edits as of 18 March 2019)
- Oldest picture on the English Wikipedia's record: marahuana warning.png on 14:07:29, 25 January 2002[l][bm]
- Oldest picture accessible under current MediaWiki records: File:Europeanunion-med.png[ah] on 11:49, 20 July 2002[l][ai]
- Oldest currently-accessible image revision: File:Hoaxed photo of the Loch Ness monster.jpg on 10:51, 15 March 2003
- Oldest entry in the modern upload log: File:Mini Christmas tree.png by Fredrik on 23 December 2004[bn]
- Largest image size: File:Location of Earth (9x1-English Annot-small).png (558.54 MB)
- Smallest image size: File:30bytes.gif (30 bytes)
Sounds
The first sound was File:SAMPA Q dot bomb wasp English RP.ogg, originally uploaded on 11:49, 20 July 2002.[bo]
Vandalism and deletion
- First vandalism:[f] MarylanD[a] on 24 January 2001[bp]
- Longest undetected vandalism in an article: Brightwaters, New York from 18 January 2007 to 12 January 2021 (13 years, 360 days)
- Longest undetected vandalism on a redirect page: Windsor castle from 19 January 2006 to 03 May 2021 (15 years, 104 days)
- Longest undetected vandalism in a file: File:Burnin' Up Single Cover.JPG from 25 September 2008 to 20 January 2015 (6 years, 117 days)
- Longest undetected copyright violation: 2002 São Toméan legislative election from 13 August 2004 to 19 April 2020 (15 years, 250 days)
- Longest undetected hoax article: Abu-Ali Urbuti from April 7, 2006 to February 10, 2021 (14 years, 309 days)
- Oldest entry
- in the old deletion log: Alan Millar/Status by Larry_Sanger on 17:31:23, 28 February 2002
- in the modern deletion log: Vivian Blaine by Slowking Man on 03:20, 23 December 2004[bn]
- Most deleted article: The weather in London (81 times)[bq]
- Most deleted (and recreated) article: Daniel Brandt (40 times)[br]
- Most articles nominated in a deletion discussion: Mayoral elections (271 articles)
- Article with most deletion discussions:[bs] Gay Nigger Association of America (41 discussions)[bt]
- Longest deleted article: Probability derivations for making low hands in Omaha hold 'em (305 KB)[bu]
- Earliest known salting: History on keyboard instruments, salted on September 5, 2004[bv]
Categories and templates
Categories
- Largest category:[bw] Articles with short description
- Category in the largest number of languages: United States (241 languages)
- but not in English: 1630 disestablishments (4 languages)
Templates
- Largest template by page size: Template:International military intervention against ISIL infobox (135,615 bytes as of 10 February 2020)[bx]
- Largest navigation template:[f] Shakespeare's plays (1,837 wikilinks as of 15 June 2020)[by]
- Template with the most transclusions: {{Yesno}} (10,830,054 as of 10 August 2019)
- Module with the most invocations: Arguments (23,270,804 as of 10 August 2019)
Milestones
Articles
Article number | Title | Date created |
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100,000 | Hastings, New Zealand | 21 January 2003 |
500,000 | Forced settlements in the Soviet Union[bz] | 17 March 2005 |
1,000,000 | Jordanhill railway station | 1 March 2006 |
2,000,000 | El Hormiguero | 9 September 2007 |
3,000,000 | Beate Eriksen | 17 August 2009 |
4,000,000 | Ezbet El Borg | 13 July 2012 |
5,000,000 | Persoonia terminalis | 1 November 2015 |
6,000,000 | Maria Elise Turner Lauder | 23 January 2020 |
Users
User number | User | Date registered |
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100,000 | Wakmah | |
1,000,000 | Jchriscampbell | 27 February 2006 |
High-use pages
- Most linked-to categories
- Most linked-to files
- Most linked-to pages
- Most transcluded pages
- Pages with the most interwikis
- Pages with the most revisions (article pages)
Database reports
- Long pages (all pages on the project)
- Talk pages by size
- Most-watched pages
- Most-watched pages by namespace
- Most-watched users
- Pages with the most revisions
- Long stubs
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e This capitalization is correct, as in the early days the last letter of one-word article titles was always capitalized.
- ^ Confirmed by Wikipedia's January–August 2001 logs. According to the file diff_log.txt, the first editor was office.bomis.com, followed by eiffel.demon.co.uk, both domain names. ScottMoonen was likely the third user to edit Wikipedia, but is the first one with a username.
- ^ The 21:16, 16 January 2001 revision was the first time the edit summary was used on Wikipedia.
- ^ Users with ID number 0 are reserved for IP addresses.
- ^ UseModWiki had ID numbers of its own, but those appear to have been internally inconsistent and are disregarded by MediaWiki. The lowest ID number found in the Starling logs is 111, which is shared between several domain names that do not appear to have been related.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Unconfirmed
- ^ Nupedia copyeditor Ruth Ifcher (RoseParks) signed an edit dating to 17 January 2001 and created the corresponding userpage later that day, but did not start logging her edits under that name until 18 January 2001.
- ^ William Alston died on 13 September 2009.
- ^ Jack Lemmon was created on 16 June 2001 and updated on the day after his death.
- ^ Dale Earnhardt was created on 22 February 2001. He died three days earlier on 18 February. The January–August 2001 logs show that Recent celebrity deaths was created on 14 March 2001, with Earnhardt being one of the first entries.
- ^ Many victims of the September 11 attacks had articles created on them in the aftermath. Most of them were later deleted and moved to the former Sep11wiki, among the earliest being Tara Creamer on 12 September 2001, the day after her death. However, none of them had articles before the attacks.
- ^ a b c Phase I software (UseModWiki) had no way to natively include images, so images had to be linked with their raw URLs from external sources. Phase II software had no upload history, so a new version of a file wiped out the previous revision. The modern Upload Wizard arrived with Phase III software on 20 July 2002.
- ^ Without a full URL
- ^ Dealing with turtle graphics
- ^ a b A revision no longer exists and was not archived by the Wikipedia 10K Redux.
- ^ The earliest surviving accessible PNG postdates to 17 August 2001.
- ^ Uploaded to Meta by Magnus Manske on 10:15:24, 10 November 2001, incorporated into this revision of Mark Twain the same day, and available on the Wayback Machine as of February 2002
- ^ Meta was launched on 9 November and tested Manske's Phase II script before it was adopted by the English Wikipedia on 25 January 2002. UseModWiki had no way to natively upload images, so at that time one had to upload an image to Meta and copy and paste the resultant URL into the desired Wikipedia page. The meta file now shadows the Commons file, which dates to 24 March 2005.
- ^ Featured articles were formerly known as brilliant prose.
- ^ This redirect was changed to SnowBoarding by CliffordAdams on 00:26, 28 January 2001, covering up some early vandalism.
- ^ Placed in SandBox by PhillipHankins, it is unclear as to whether the test actually worked at the time, although subsequent discussion appears to imply that it did not; earlier discussion had used double-brackets, but in the context of demonstrating what free links were rather than trying to actually be links. This is the first edit that was an effort to actually produce a free link. About a minute later he would change the content to uppercase "Test" and then lowercase "denmark", making Denmark the first content page to be the attempted target of a free link. UseModWiki would run a script later in 2001 that retroactively converted many CamelCase links into free links without registering it as an edit but the Starling logs are not affected by this.
- ^ Placed in WhichWikiShouldWeUse by CliffordAdams, in the context of summarizing/recapping earlier discussion on free links. This may or may not have been intentional on his part.
- ^ UseModWiki would sometimes change a CamelCase title retroactively to the standard-capitalization title.
- ^ Converting the links to [The] Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo to the new format
- ^ a b c Earlier edits were subsequently imported but did not affect the outcome.
- ^ Created as a model for an alternative method of organization of AfghanistaN[a] on 21 January, it was blanked three days later and subsequently deleted by UseMod software.
- ^ The subpages were disabled in the main namespace with Phase II software.
- ^ Revisions with ID number 0 are reserved for the current revision to the Main Page.
- ^ Found from searching through page ID numbers in the database table from around 19:00, 5 December 2005 per this Signpost story to obtain the revision history for Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana
- ^ "Tags Mobile edit". Indeed, very mobile.
- ^ Originally titled ChristianityTalk
- ^ Originally titled Damian Yerrick/Talk
- ^ Originally titled CategorySchemesTalk
- ^ a b Originally in filespace before being moved to Commons
- ^ a b Earlier revisions are inaccessible within Wikipedia, the currently-accessible version dates only to 1 June 2007. Older versions are available at archive.org (20 July 2002 image).
- ^ RecentChanges was intended to be a changelog to the wiki updated automatically. It is not related to the modern RecentChanges and its history is archived.
- ^ Has always been in categoryspace
- ^ For the rest of 2001 and most of 2002, the Main Page mainly comprised various categories and topics with the other items appearing as documented below.
- ^ According to the Wayback Machine, the earliest confirmed entry on In the news is the United States invasion of Afghanistan on 30 October 2001.
- ^ Recent deaths dates only to 2012 in its modern form. In the early days, In the news and Recent deaths were in the same section with no distinction, although an abortive attempt to separate them was made in 2002. In those same early days, In the news and Recent deaths articles were simply linked on the main page without any blurbs.
- ^ This occurred before
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- ^ The creation is attributed to Conversion script, but this masks an earlier revision that was not imported in the Usemod article histories import; there is no relevant history at the Nostalgia Wikipedia. The date of 25 January 2002 was when Wikipedia began using Phase II software
- ^ Byzantine Empire was promoted in May 2001 and has no record of it having ever been demoted.
- ^ Greek mythology is the only other article that has been continuously featured since 2001.
- ^ Tropical Depression Ten (2005) was merged to 2005 Atlantic hurricane season on 21 January 2020.
- ^ Formerly Dr. Blofeld
- ^ a b In the absence of special pages
- ^ The consistent popularity of these articles is believed to be in part because people accidentally type these site names/URLs into a Wikipedia search box (either in the MediaWiki interface or a web browser) when intending to actually visit the sites themselves.
- ^ This record was set in the period after his death.
- ^ Donald Trump received 6.1 million views the day after he won the 2016 United States presidential election.
- ^ The Gadget namespace has one page (the redirect Gadget:Invention, Travel, & Adventure) with two edits.
- ^ Figure could be higher if the CamelCase version is included as well. Assuming that at least some of those editors misinterpreted the page to make edits better suited towards projectspace (questions, etc.) and therefore excluding it, United States has been edited by 10,561 editors.
- ^ Figure only includes editors in the past 50,000 revisions. Extrapolating that figure to the 717,123 total edits it has received gives an estimate of about 170,000 editors.
- ^ This was before semi-protection was added to Wikipedia, so many of those edits were vandalism and associated reversions.
- ^ Ser Amantio di Nicolao is aided by semi-automated tools, as stated on his userpage.
- ^ This occurred due to a database crash.
- ^ Nearly all links to Wikipedia:Sandbox are from template messages on user talk pages.
- ^ Nearly all links to Network address translation are from template messages on IP talk pages.
- ^ Nearly all links to ISBN (identifier) are from citation templates where an ISBN number is given.
- ^ More accurate searches are possible but expensive and give similar results.
- ^ a b Including template invocations
- ^ The 64 top articles are international conventions with a category for each participant.
- ^ Selected from a top-10 list of disambiguation pages in 2014[3]
- ^ Deleted in 2009, archived on archive.org.
- ^ a b Coincides with MediaWiki 1.4
- ^ Phase II software had no way to upload sounds.
- ^ The revision was also the first spam. It lasted five hours before being reverted.
- ^ Early on it was decided that The weather in London be used as a placeholder red link, but it would later come to be regarded as a valid and encyclopedic topic, if only as a redirect. Nevertheless, its old use persisted amongst some Wikipedians, hence the deletion war, before the title was finally accepted for its current use.
- ^ The current article is about a different Daniel Brandt than the individual in the Essjay controversy.
- ^ Includes AfD (Articles for deletion), VfD (Votes for deletion), and DRV (Deletion review) discussions
- ^ Deleted and later redone
- ^ Transwikied to Wikibooks as a result of this AfD
- ^ Per Wikipedia:Protection log/Archive 2 (though the protection reason was not always recorded in the protection log). Salted pages were originally blanked or replaced with a transclusion of MediaWiki:Noarticletext. They were first listed systematically in February 2005 in this edit to the list of protected pages. Shortly afterwards, Template:Deletedpage was created on March 27, 2005 (see this TFD from April 2005). Also see the historical list of protected titles, from 2006 onwards, and its modern equivalent at Special:Protectedtitles.
- ^ Excluding Category:Articles, which includes almost all articles within its subcategories, and Category:Contents, which almost has everything on Wikipedia.
- ^ There are probably bigger templates related to the COVID pandemic
- ^ The template displays 33 other navigation templates but is only used in four articles.
- ^ Originally titled Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union
References
- ^ Siber, Kate (2 August 2010). "Hike the Zion Narrows, Utah". National Geographic. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ a b Query 54051 on Quarry
- ^ Schneider, Todd (27 May 2014). "What is the Longest Disambiguation Page on Wikipedia?". toddwschneider.com.