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*Longest undetected vandalism: [[:File:Munch Scream Thieves 2004.jpg]], edit made on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=100565074 13 January 2007], fixed on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=490525658 3 May 2012]; an interval of 5 years, 3 months, 29 days. |
*Longest undetected vandalism: [[:File:Munch Scream Thieves 2004.jpg]], edit made on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=100565074 13 January 2007], fixed on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=490525658 3 May 2012]; an interval of 5 years, 3 months, 29 days. |
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*Longest undetected vandalism in articles: [[Tanzanian Premier League]]. Edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tanzanian_Premier_League&diff=262592616&oldid=258288784 made] 7 January 2009, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tanzanian_Premier_League&diff=prev&oldid=578758983 fixed] 25 October 2013. Undetected for 4 years, 9 months, 18 days. |
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*Longest undetected copyvio: [[Gene Bearden]], Added 20 March 2004 (revision deleted), removed 10 September 2012. Total length of time undetected: 8 years, 5 months, 20 days. |
*Longest undetected copyvio: [[Gene Bearden]], Added 20 March 2004 (revision deleted), removed 10 September 2012. Total length of time undetected: 8 years, 5 months, 20 days. |
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*Longest undetected hoax article: [[Gaius Flavius Antoninus]] lasted 8 years and 1 month. See [[Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia]] |
*Longest undetected hoax article: [[Gaius Flavius Antoninus]] lasted 8 years and 1 month. See [[Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia]] |
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This is a page detailing various records of Wikipedia. Some of them may never be fully known, but it's worth listing the ones we know. Please fill the gaps in, and add your own records (as long as they are sensible)!
Beginnings
- First edit: HomePage on 15 January 2001
- First page: HomePage created on 15 January 2001
- First named user: January 17: First known named user: User:ScottMoonen [1]
- First featured article: TheCanonofScripture, MathematicalGrouP, and NewZealand, tied on 23:53, January 21, 2001. However, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was first to be featured on the main page, on February 22, 2004
- First Did You Know: Pencil sharpener, posted on February 22, 2004 (created by user:Raul654 on February 15, 2004)
- First Picture of the Day: Virgin River Narrows, Friday May 14, 2004[2]
The Virgin River Narrows in Zion National Park, located near Springdale, Utah, is a 16-mile long slot canyon along the Virgin River. Recently rated as number five out of National Geographic's Top 100 American Adventures, it is one of the most rewarding hikes in the world.
Photo credit: Jon Sullivan, pdphoto.org
Articles
- Oldest surviving edit (older edits have existed, but have since been lost because of the way UseModWiki worked): UuU (20:08 UTC, 16 January 2001)
- Longest article: List of United States counties and county-equivalents (616K as of July 5, 2013)
- Longest article that is not a list: Character mask (294k as of June 1, 2012); longest article without embedded lists: Character mask (294k as of June 1, 2012)
- Longest biography article: Larry Norman (280K as of January 31, 2011)
- Longest featured article: Barack Obama (as of January 13, 2012)
- Shortest featured article: Tropical Depression Ten (2005) (as of February 21, 2011)
- Articles with the most references:
- That is a list: List of Australian composers has 1,414 as of April, 2013
- That is not a list nor a biography: Sexuality in ancient Rome has 619 as of October 8, 2013
- Most archives of a main namespace talk page: Talk:Jesus (121 as of 14 November 2013)
- Most archives of a non-main namespace talk page: Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship (226 as of 14 November 2013)
- Most archives of a non-main namespace non-talk page: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (818 as of 14 November 2013)
- Most successful FA nominations: 97 by Wehwalt (see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations)
- Most DYK (Did You Know?) articles: 1406 by Dr. Blofeld (see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of DYKs)
- Most views:
- The most visited pages are probably Special:Search, followed by the Main Page and Special:Random.
- The most viewed article of all time is unknown, though http://stats.grok.se/ gives statistics for specific months in more recent years.
- The most visited article on a single day is probably Steve Jobs, which had 7.4 million views on 6 October 2011 and 1.6 million on 7 October.[3] The previous record was probably Michael Jackson, which had 5.9 million views on 26 June 2009.[4] In both cases, the record views were set one day after the subjects' deaths.
Edits
- Most edited article:[5]
- in main article namespace: George W. Bush[5]
- in any namespace: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism[5]
- Article edited by the largest number of users:
- Article unedited for the longest time: See WP:Dusty articles
- Article that was stub for longest time: Cannot be determined, because there is no clear definition of how long the text of an article has to be for the article to stop being a stub.
- Most edits to one article in a single day: 7 July 2005 London bombings (2,857 edits in 24 hours; the article was receiving up to 15 edits per minute at some stages)
- Most edits by a user (bot): Helpful Pixie Bot, combined with its former account SmackBot, has a total of 4,248,124 edits, more than Cydebot, the single account with the largest number of edits, which has 4,154,697 edits as of 18:57, 5 July 2013 (UTC).[6]
- Most edits by a user (non-bot): Koavf (1,294,569 edits as of 20:15, 14 November 2013 (UTC))[6]
- Most edits by an IP address: 202.156.6.54 (19,344 edits as of July 5, 2013; the IP address was used by around 300,000 people)
Titles
- Article with longest title: See the sortable table below for the articles with the longest titles.
Article with shortest title
- There are 36 articles with titles of only one ASCII character in length: 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 and Z
- A further 131 articles have titles of a single Unicode character: ¥, À, Ã, È, Ê, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ò, Õ, Ú, Û, Ā, Ă, Ć, Ĉ, Ċ, Č, Ď, Ė, Ě, Ĝ, Ğ, Ġ, Ĥ, Ĵ, Ń, Ň, ʼn, Ŕ, Ř, Ś, Ŝ, 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, Ƞ, Ȥ, Ȧ, Ȳ, ɪ, ּ, ک, ݙ, ݭ, ॰, Ḍ, Ḑ, Ḥ, Ḫ, Ḱ, Ḷ, Ḿ, Ṛ, Ṣ, Ṭ, Ẋ, Ẓ, ẗ, Ẽ, ←, ↑, →, ↓, ∂, ∆, ≡, ≤, ⊿, ✕, ✖, Ⱬ, Ⱳ, ⱺ, 了, 京, 仝, 侍, 內, 兩, 剣, 圓, 属, 我, 晋, 林, 桂, 申, 神, 美, 膾, 蜀, 蝶, 道, 郡, 部, 鄂, 酒, 阝, 餅, 魁, 鲁, Ꞅ
Links
- Page linked to by most other pages: Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers
- Most linked article in main namespace: Fair use
- Article with most links:
- Article in most categories: First Geneva Convention, Second Geneva Convention, and Fourth Geneva Convention, in 202 categories each (see Special:MostCategories)
- Oldest red link:
- Most linked to image:
(see Special:MostImages)
Consensus participation
- 687 - WikiProject Usability/Main Page
- 567 - Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Vote/Newyorkbrad
- 541 - Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Vote/Giano II
- 488 - Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Vote/Raul654
- 424 - Wikipedia:Attribution/Poll
- 403 - Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Vote/Deskana
- 403 - Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Vote/Can't sleep, clown will eat me
- 383 - Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Danny
- 358 - Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Vote/Rebecca
- 341 - Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections January 2006/Vote/Fred Bauder
- 327 - Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Vote/FayssalF
- 326 - Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections January 2006/Vote/Mindspillage
- See generally Wikipedia:Times that 200 or more Wikipedians supported something
Languages
- Article in largest number of languages (apart from Main Page):
- excluding test wikis: True Jesus Church in 240 languages
- including test wikis: Kurów in 345 languages (See Stats)
- Featured article on the most different language wikipedias: Julius Caesar (13)
- Featured article in largest number of language wikipedias but not English: Julius Caesar (13)
- Featured article on the highest percentage of different language wikipedias: The Swimming Hole (exists only in English and German, and is featured on both) (although at the end of 2010, translations into at least three other languages have been made, bringing down the average Featurednes)
- Language with highest percentage of featured articles:
- Fastest-growing language wikipedia:
Pictures
- Article with most pictures:
- List_of_B8_polytopes with 2,429 images
- (Also User:Tuvalkin/BSiconRS with a browser-crushing 18,558)
- Picture in most articles:
- File:Information.svg (
) is used 3,246,023 times
- Counting only links from main-namespace articles, File:Question_book-new.svg (
) is used 407,468 times
- File:Information.svg (
- First picture:
- Most edited picture:
- Oldest picture on record: (many tied at 11:49, 20 July 2002)
- Oldest featured picture:
- Image sizes:
- Largest:File:N._M._Price_-_Sir_Walter_Scott_-_Guy_Mannering_-_At_the_Kaim_of_Derncleugh_original_scan.png at 94,693,415 bytes
- Smallest File:1px_f8fcff.gif at 35 bytes
- Average size (as of February 2012): 229,065 bytes
Deletion
- Most vandalised article: George W. Bush
- Most vandalised talk page:
- Longest undetected vandalism: File:Munch Scream Thieves 2004.jpg, edit made on 13 January 2007, fixed on 3 May 2012; an interval of 5 years, 3 months, 29 days.
- Longest undetected vandalism in articles: Tanzanian Premier League. Edit made 7 January 2009, fixed 25 October 2013. Undetected for 4 years, 9 months, 18 days.
- Longest undetected copyvio: Gene Bearden, Added 20 March 2004 (revision deleted), removed 10 September 2012. Total length of time undetected: 8 years, 5 months, 20 days.
- Longest undetected hoax article: Gaius Flavius Antoninus lasted 8 years and 1 month. See Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
- Most deleted (and reborn) article: Daniel Brandt - 40 times created and deleted.
- Article with most deletion discussions (VfD, AfD and DRV): Gay Nigger Association of America - 41 (deleted, later redone). See Wikipedia:LAME#Lamest_deletion_wars.
- Longest deleted article: Probability derivations for making low hands in Omaha hold 'em, which was transwikied to Wikibooks as a result of this AFD.
Categories and templates
- First category: Category:World War II was created by User:Raul654 at 03:59 on 30 May 2004
- Largest category: Category:Living people. (Of course, Category:Fundamental categories includes almost all articles within its subcategories.)
- First template: Template:Periodic table (oldest surviving - there may be older templates that have been deleted)
- Largest template: Template:Pfam2PDBsum (1.7MB - ouch!)
Numbers
- 100,000th article: Hastings, New Zealand
- 500,000th article: Forced settlements in the Soviet Union (originally entitled "Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union")
- Millionth article: Jordanhill railway station
- 2M article: El Hormiguero
- 3M article: Beate Eriksen
- 4M article: Ezbet el-Borg
- 100,000th user: User:Wakmah
- Millionth user: User:Jchriscampbell
- See also Wikipedia:Milestone statistics
See also
References
- ^ Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles
- ^ Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2004
- ^ "Wikipedia article traffic statistics". 2011-10. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
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(help) - ^ "Wikipedia article traffic statistics: Michael Jackson". 2009-06. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
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(help) - ^ a b c Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions
- ^ a b Calculated using the MediaWiki API; using a URL like this one