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Wikipedia is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

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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
July 21, 2009	Peer review	Reviewed
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.

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

This article was nominated for deletion on 1 April, 2010. The result of the discussion was speedy keep.

Countries

Moved to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Countries

Section on Criticism of Wikipedia

Any thoughts on adding a section on Criticism of Wikipedia? I know there is already an article dedicated to it, but having a section that sums it up briefly on here would be helpful. In it we can have a link (such as 'main article: Criticism of Wikipedia). I would draft it, but I'm not autoconfirmed yet, and this article is semi-protected. If nobody minded waiting a few days I could probably do it then or send it to somebody who is confirmed.--Alang814 (talk) 02:26, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What we normally do is to have a header such as "Criticism of Wikipedia" with a link such as Criticism of Wikipedia to a main article, with a brief overview of what is covered in that article.Rodhull andemu 02:34, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant, although that's a much clearer way of saying it.--Alang814 (talk) 18:04, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Editing/contributing on Wikipedia

I have recently tried to contribute to some articles on Wikipedia only to be rudely deleted and told off by other users. I simply can't understand how Wikipedia can claim to be free to contributors when in the end if someone doesn't agree with you they simply delete your message and start calling your comments vandalism. I really find this amazing. These 'guardians' of wikipedia are abusing wikipedia's most cherished principle of freedom of speech and expression. My comments were not rude but researched facts which did not agree with hard core long-term users. Some users even threatened to stop me from posting again. How can they possibly have such power and be the judges of comments. I would like to open a discussion about this. I think these wiki bullies are acting totally inappropriately. I just found this article which supports what I'm saying:- http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10309840-71.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.102.158.15 (talk • contribs)

could you point to the edit that you introduced that is now reverted? Witty Lama 14:33, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not needed

(facepalms) We don't need this page. This wiki doesn't have enough room for pages ABOUT ITSELF. Seriously, we don't need pages for everything in the universe. -pgj1997 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.241.126.240 (talk) 04:56, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contribution. Perhaps you'd like to find another article that you'd prefer to help with than this one. Witty Lama 14:32, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Video of editing

I was just wondering if anyone here thought that this video might be useful? File:Editing_Hoxne_Hoard_at_the_British_Museum.ogv. It is the timelapse of part of the editing process at the Hoxne Challenge event held at the British Museum last week. I was the instigator of that event and so I'm obviously personally fond of the video :-) However, I also think that it might be the best/only video of Wikipedia being actually edited by actual people. Because the premise of the day was to get experts from the museum and wikipeida into the room together I think this is a unique video and therefore potentially valuable for this article. What do you think? Currently the video is in-use at the British Museum-Wikipedia collaboration page here Wikipedia:GLAM/BM Witty Lama 14:32, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request from 71.109.148.127, 3 July 2010

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71.109.148.127 (talk) 21:40, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]