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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.

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
April 1, 2006	Articles for deletion	Speedily kept
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
July 26, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed
November 7, 2012	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
August 25, 2014	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
September 5, 2014	Good article reassessment	Delisted
May 21, 2021	Peer review	Reviewed
February 4, 2023	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
March 12, 2023	Peer review	Reviewed
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 15, 2005.
This article was on the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive for the week of February 7, 2007.
Current status: Former featured article

Wikipedia Reference Desk was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 27 February 2010 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Wikipedia. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

This article was nominated for deletion. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination:

Deletion discussions:

Keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2022, see discussion.
Keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2019, see discussion.
Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2017, see discussion.
Delete (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2016, see discussion.
Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2015, see discussion.
Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 7 April 2014, see discussion.
Tedium (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2014, see discussion.
No consensus (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2011, see discussion.
Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2010, see discussion.
Speedy close (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2010, see discussion.
Speedy keep, 6 September 2008, see discussion.
Speedy close, 17 May 2007, see discussion.
Speedy keep (joke AFD for April Fool's Day), 1 April 2006, see discussion.

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Nicholson Baker (2008-04-09). "How I fell in love with Wikipedia [1]". The Guardian.
"The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2009 and 2008". The Telegraph (UK). 2009-08-17.
Stephen McNeice (2013-05-14). "See how Wikipedia updates in real-time". Newstalk.
David Stabler (2013-05-11). "Wikipedia a passion for Portland's Jason Moore". The Oregonian.
Taleen Postian (2022-11-03). "Why So Much Hate on Wikipedia?". The Villanovan.

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Section sizes

Section size for Wikipedia (64 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	11,631	11,631
History	45	32,851
Nupedia	3,629	3,629
Launch and growth	13,749	13,749
Milestones	15,428	15,428
Openness	668	20,306
Restrictions	4,651	4,651
Review of changes	1,740	1,740
Vandalism	4,162	4,162
Disputes and edit warring	9,085	9,085
Policies and content	4,544	7,633
Content policies and guidelines	3,089	3,089
Governance	1,390	6,910
Administrators	2,596	2,596
Dispute resolution	1,026	2,924
Arbitration Committee	1,898	1,898
Community	8,806	14,843
Studies	3,356	3,356
Diversity	2,681	2,681
Language editions	14,229	16,230
English Wikipedia editor numbers	2,001	2,001
Reception	10,333	62,931
Accuracy of content	14,048	14,048
Discouragement in education	5,197	7,825
Medical information	2,628	2,628
Coverage of topics and systemic bias	6,687	13,140
Coverage of topics and bias	2,424	2,424
Systemic biases	4,029	4,029
Explicit content	6,902	6,902
Privacy	4,215	4,215
Sexism	6,468	6,468
Operation	16	33,705
Wikimedia Foundation and affiliate movements	9,295	9,295
Software operations and support	7,223	7,223
Automated editing	4,462	4,462
Hardware operations and support	4,741	4,741
Internal research and operational development	3,731	3,731
Internal news publications	1,847	1,847
The Wikipedia Library	2,390	2,390
Access to content	127	27,117
Content licensing	6,739	6,739
Methods of access	8,603	17,985
Mobile access	9,382	9,382
Chinese access	2,266	2,266
Cultural influence	68	51,536
Trusted source to combat fake news	1,496	1,496
Readership	3,405	7,800
COVID-19 pandemic	4,395	4,395
Cultural significance	10,738	22,736
Awards	3,969	3,969
Satire	8,029	8,029
Sister projects – Wikimedia	3,222	3,222
Publishing	4,490	4,490
Research use	11,724	11,724
Related projects	3,477	3,477
See also	673	673
Notes	26	26
References	19,134	21,418
Wikipedia-affiliated and primary sources	2,284	2,284
Further reading	6,242	16,071
Academic studies	4,849	4,849
Books	4,018	4,018
Book review–related articles	962	962
External links	1,212	1,212
Total	328,570	328,570

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 13 May 2024

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Anchor Text: the original is broken in live

Broken link: https://rogchap.com/2011/09/06/top-40-website-programming-languages/

Text found in the line : Archived from the original on September 22, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2011 SpintaDigital (talk) 09:47, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: The link linked under "the original" is supposed to be broken. If you check out citation #2 in the references list, you will see that there are two links: one that links to the original, broken page, and one to a web.archive.org version that is still accessible. Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 12:33, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think a better source for that link in the infobox would be [2] Johnjbarton (talk) 19:07, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am kind of new here so please be more specific 😬😬😬 41.115.124.157 (talk) 18:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"VVikipedia" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect VVikipedia has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 September 13 § VVikipedia until a consensus is reached. Largoplazo (talk) 02:39, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"WİKİPEDİA" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect WİKİPEDİA has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 September 13 § WİKİPEDİA until a consensus is reached. Largoplazo (talk) 02:40, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia...

Wikipedia is nice but anyone can edit it and put unreliable stuff on there. So how do you know of what your reading is true. 2600:1005:A009:E1A9:407E:E303:66AA:D7E3 (talk) 01:27, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia:Verifiability and how Talk pages are not forums. Johnjbarton (talk) 01:36, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

dmy dates

Hello,

Considering this is a page about a website that has a rule dedicated to using dmy dates, I figured the article itself should follow this rule. "Founded by Wales and Sanger on 15 January 2001", perhaps?

All regards, TomGreene16 (talk) TomGreene16 (talk) 00:24, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done_@TomGreene16: - FlightTime (open channel) 00:33, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]