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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 5, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
March 9, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
April 4, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
April 9, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 4, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
August 1, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted
September 15, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
February 25, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
August 12, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
August 15, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
This article was on the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive for the week of February 7, 2007.
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

This article has been mentioned by a media organization:

Nicholson Barker (Thursday 10 April 2008). "How I fell in love with Wikipedia". The Guardian. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on January 15, 2005.

This article has been mentioned by a media organization:

"The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2009 and 2008". The Daily Telegraph. August 17, 2009.

Countries

Moved to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Countries

Link for "volunteers"

The first paragraph says "Wikipedia's 13 million articles (3 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers," and "volunteers" links to the [[Volunteer|general volunteer page]. I think it should link to the [Virtual_volunteering|virtual volunteering] page instead, since these are specifically online volunteers, rather than traditional onsite volunteers, especially since Wikipedia is one of the largest examples of virtual volunteering. Comment by: User:Jcravens42

Beta version of Wikipedia

Wikipedia article does not contain any information about the new beta feature nor any content about wikipedia's future. Wikipedia staff should do something about this.

Servers in Korea decommissioned?

According to Wikitech [2] [3] and Ganglia, there are no longer Wikipedia servers in Korea, though even Meta-Wiki hasn't been updated and there seems to be no up-to-date server layout diagram.

Wikipedia Namespace

I suggest that this article be duplicated in the Wikipedia namespace. Us441 (talk) 00:20, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What, at Wikipedia:Wikipedia? Why? -- Vary | (Talk) 01:32, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia namespace is for information on Wikipedia, and this looks like a good introduction to information on Wikipedia. Us441 (talk) 15:02, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:About serves that purpose. Both articles have hat notes linking each other. Rehevkor ✉ 16:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Let's hold a vote lasting until April 30, 2009 at 22:00 UTC. Put Support if you think Wikipedia:About should be replaced by this article, Oppose if you think it should not, and Neutral if you choose not to take either side. Us441 (talk) 21:01, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How about you get at least one or two people agreeing with this bizarre and pointless idea before a vote is taken. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia article that tries hard not to be self-referential. Wikipedia:About serves a completely different function. LonelyMarble (talk) 21:42, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Polling is not a substitute for discussion --Cybercobra (talk) 00:07, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bias

The article apperars to be a bit biased. For example, "Wikipedia does not take a side." This is not really true- Wikipedia tries to avoid taking a side, but this ideal is not always achieved. There are numerous other examples of what Wikipedia tries to be, but there is less real information about what Wikipedia actually is.

Request for switching to first person point of view

Instead of "Wikipedia is..." it should be "I am..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.180.101 (talk) 01:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.221.202 (talk) 16:36, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How about no, Scott. Rehevkor ✉ 16:52, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Robert McHenry's clever, unpleasant, simile

"The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him. Wikipedia [is a] faith-based encyclopedia."

McHenry is eliciting disgust and snobbery to put down Wikippedia and thus promote his rival encyclopedia. It would be better if a quote of his were found that made his point more dispassionately. We're not here to promote his former employer or even to bend over backwards to appear fair. We should simply be fair.Rich (talk) 20:39, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update of Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages

Could anybody who understands the stuff about java etc. update this list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_frequently_edited_pages/How_to_generate_the_lists)? It would be quite interesting to know which actual entries (Namespace 0) are the most edited. The list here is nearly to years old and back than, the entry on George W. Buch was the most edited (40.000+) and that on Wikipedia only second (less than 30.000). THANKS!! VonLoyola 17:14, 12 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by VonLoyola (talk • contribs)