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List of records in Wikipedia

“WP:RECORDS” redirects here. For WikiProject Record Charts, see WP:RECORD.

This page details various records of Wikipedia and is constantly updated as legitimate records are added by various users.

Oldest pages in each namespace[edit]

These revisions are mostly found through database queries (linked to from their dates).

First Main Page section appearances[edit]

Wikipedia's first picture of the day

Wikipedia’s first picture of the day featured the Virgin River Narrows, a 16-mile long slot canyon in Utah. Featured in a 2010 National Geographic list of the 100 best American adventure trips,[1] it is one of the most rewarding hikes in the world.
  • Longest current articles
  • Shortest current articles:
  • Longest article at creation date: List of named minor planets (numerical) on 02:01, 2 November 2016 (2,024,726 bytes)
  • List divided into the most list articles: United States National Register of Historic Places listings (3052 lists as of 27 March 2023)
  • Articles with the most references
  • 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: fill in if found
  • Longest article revision ever: List of named minor planets (numerical) on 17:09, 2 December 2016 (2,045,391 bytes)
  • Longest table of contents: Winning streak (602 headings on 00:59, 28 October 2018)[bn]
  • 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: Same as above
  • Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace: Kary B. Mullis from 15:51 25 February 2002 to 20:27 16 August 2022‎ (20 years, 172 days)
  • Longest continuously-featured article: Byzantine Empire (promoted on 26 May 2001 and having no record of ever being demoted as of 22 July 2022)[bo]
  • Shortest FA ever: Tropical Depression Ten (2005) on 23:02, 7 December 2019 (8,762 bytes)[bp]
  • Most successful FA nominations by a Wikipedian: Wehwalt (213 nominations)[bq]
  • Most successful DYK nominations by a Wikipedian: Gerda Arendt (1768 nominations)[br]
  • 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)Reply[reply]
  • 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)
These are current as of 6 April 2023. Those who are interested in updating them can use special searches to find more: simply change the search to the appropriate namespace and change the archive number to one more than the numbers listed here. If you find anything, keep going up until you stop finding more, and then that’s the new record. There are no pages with archives in the TimedText talk, Gadget talk, or Gadget definition talk namespaces.
  • Longest talk page thread: unknown

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.

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Cumulative views[edit]

Single-day views[edit]

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 edited pages (as of April 6, 2023‎)
    • in any namespace: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (1,898,475 edits)
    • in the Main namespace: List of WWE personnel (56,634 edits)
      • Most edited page in the Main namespace that is not a list: George W. Bush (47,893 edits)
      • Most edited page in the Main namespace that is not a list or biography: Wikipedia (36,876 edits)
    • in Talk: Main Page (154,180 edits)
      • Talk pages that are talk page of real articles: Donald Trump (73,003 edits)
    • in User: Cyde/List of candidates for speedy deletion/Subpage (991,611 edits)
    • in User talk: Jimbo Wales (162,996 edits)
    • in Wikipedia talk: Did you know (122,279 edits)
    • in MediaWiki[f]: Spam-blacklist (6,404 edits)
    • in MediaWiki talk: Spam-blacklist (25,401 edits)
    • in Template: Cratstats (106,497 edits)
    • in Template talk: Did you know (393,575 edits)
    • in Portal: Current events/Sports/Sidebar (43,357 edits)
    • in Help talk: Citation Style 1 (29,324 edits)
    • in Draft: Sandbox (55,083 edits)
    • in Module: Syrian Civil War detailed map (18,346 edits)
  • Most-edited namespace:[f] Main
  • Least-edited namespace: Gadget (3 edits)[by][bz]
  • Article edited by the largest number of users:[f]Wikipedia (13,671 editors)[ca]
  • 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)[cc]
  • Most edits by a bot: MalnadachBot (10,739,603 edits as of 6 February 2023)
  • Most edits by a Wikipedian: Ser Amantio di Nicolao (5,412,039 edits as of 6 February 2023)[cd]
  • Most edits by a single IPv4 address: 84.90.219.128 (53,065 edits as of 6 February 2023)
  • Most edits by a single IPv6 address: 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (15,826 edits as of 6 February 2023)
  • Most edits by an IPv6 subnet: 240D:1A:4B5:2800::/64 (76,605 edits[ce] as of 27 June 2022)
  • 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[cf]
    • 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
  • Longest gap between two edits by a user account: 15½ years by Benc – from 23 December 2004 to 10 June 2020.
  • Longest known gap between two edits on a page: 12½ years on User:Riaanvn – between November 2005 and May 2018.
  • Longest known gap between two edits on a main space article: 8¼ years on XML Script – between December 2012 and February 2021.

Articles with the longest titles[edit]

The MediaWiki software limits the length of page 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.

Articles with the shortest titles[edit]

  • 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
  • 130 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, 圓, 林, 桂, 申, 神, 膾, 蜀, 道, 郡, 部, 鄂, 酒, 阝, 餅, 鲁
Record Page Number As of Note
Page linked to by most other pages Wikipedia:Sandbox 7,071,286 10 January 2022 [cg]
Article in main namespace with most inbound links Network address translation‏‎ 2,355,236 10 January 2021 [ch]
Article or redirect linked to by most other articles ISBN (identifier) 1,317,388 links 10 January 2022 [ci]
Article linked to by most other articles in their own source text (not via templates) United States 379,117 links 10 January 2022 [cj]
Most distinct outgoing links[ck] (list or list-like article) Index of Singapore-related articles 12,289 12 April 2021 [cl]
Most distinct outgoing links[ck] (not a list or list-like article) Classical Hollywood cinema 4,191 12 April 2021 [cl]
Article in most categories Third Geneva Convention 242[cm] 23 January 2023 [cn]
Article in most categories (including hidden categories) List of Wikipedias‏‎ 323 23 January 2023
Non-convention article in most categories Alfred North Whitehead 199 18 September 2022
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 28 December 2021
Longest lasting red link in an article Islamic Armed Movement on Abdelhak Layada Created 28 June 2006 Removed 26 April 2022

Re Added after page created on 28 April 2023

Image linked on most pages File:Information.svg 4,619,635 5 February 2021
  • Article with the most redirects: Hangul (7130 Redirects)

Requests for adminship/bureaucratship[edit]

  • Latest unopposed request for adminship (RfA): DanCherek on 9 August 2022 (281 votes)
  • Latest unanimous (no opposes or neutrals) RfA: Z1720 on 29 August 2022 (194 votes)
  • Most !votes on an RfA: Tamzin in May 2022 (468 !votes)
  • Most !votes on an RfB: Juliancolton in July 2009 (302 !votes)
  • Largest successful RfA: Tamzin in May 2022 (482,907 bytes)
  • Smallest successful RfA: Marumari in August 2003 (196 bytes)
  • First RfA with its own subpage: TheCustomOfLife in August 2004 (retroactively saved to a subpage on November 25)
  • First RfA started on its own subpage: Chmod007, on 16 September 2004
  • Longest-running VfD with participation: WikidPad, from 12 January 2005 to 26 July 2020 (15 years, 196 days)
  • Longest-running AfD: Disposal orbit, from 3 January 2006 to 8 July 2022 (16 years, 186 days)
  • Slowest speedy delete: Brent’s T.V., nominated on 2 January 2006 and closed “speedy delete” on 7 July 2022 (16 years, 186 days)

Statistics[edit]

  • First daily deletion logpage: 25 December 2004 (to which 22 debates were automatically transcluded on 29 December).
  • Most AfDs in a single AfD daily logpage: 251, on 19 December 2005 (the second highest number, 238, was on the day before).
  • Fewest AfDs in a single AfD daily logpage:[cw] 0, on 22 February 2005, the “Stolen Day” in which server issues prevented the logpage from being filled.
  • Fewest AfDs in a single AfD daily logpage that wasn’t due to server problems: 16, on 17 May 2014.
  • Fewest VfDs on an AfD daily logpage: 25, on several days in 2005 (4 January, 6 January, and 4 September). 37 on 25 December 2012
  • Fewest VfDs on one day of a VfD monthly logpage: There were seventeen days in 2004 where zero articles were listed on the monthly logpages. It’s not clear whether this is because no pages were nominated on those days, or whether the logpage compilation process left them out in error: 5 July, 21 July, 29 July, 12 August, 9 September, 15 September, 19 September, 23 September, 24 September, 7 October, 8 October, 13 October, 30 October, 31 October, 5 November, 23 November, and 29 November.
  • Additionally, there were six days in 2004 during which only a single VfD was listed: 16 July, 23 August, 3 October, 12 October, 1 November, and 24 November.

By month[edit]

The following information is drawn from User:JPxG/Oracle/All, and only cover AfD nominations after the August 2005 format switch (prior to which deletions were processed at WP:VfD).

  • Keepiest month: February 2014, 35.3% (1,619 AfDs, of which 517 closed “keep”, “speedy keep”, or “no consensus”).
  • Deletiest month: April 2017, 76.9% (2,242 AfDs, of which 1,724 closed “delete”, “speedy delete”, or “redirect”).
  • Mergiest month: October 2013, 17.33% (1,402 AfDs, of which 243 closed “merge” or “redirect”).
  • Least mergy month: July 2006, 4.11% (5,011 AfDs, of which 206 closed “merge” or “redirect”).
  • Transwikiest month: April 2006, 0.57% (3,847 AfDs, of which 22 closed “transwiki”).
  • Speediest month: November 2006, 15.08% (3,528 AfDs, of which 532 closed “speedy keep” or “speedy delete”).
  • Most indecisive month: February 2014, 14.60% (1,619 AfDs, of which 236 closed “no consensus” or “withdraw”).

Individual discussions[edit]

  • Most !votes in a non-batched AfD: 293, on Brian Chase (Wikipedia hoaxer) (December 2005). In total there were 146 “keep”s, 46 “delete”s, and 124 “merge”s. While the discussion was closed as “keep”, for some time afterwards the page oscillated between being an article and a redirect in an edit war whose distinguished participants included Jimbo Wales. It is currently (as of 2021) a redirect.
  • Most “keep” votes in a VfD: 226, on Flying Spaghetti Monster (August 2005). In total there were 238 votes, including 9 “delete”s, 3 “merge”s, and 1 “moo”.
  • Most “delete” !votes in a non-batched AfD: 113, on Emily J. Hilscher (April 2007). In total there were 218 !votes.
  • Most “redirect” !votes in an AfD: 48, on K-Love Fan Awards (June 2021). There were 69 !votes in total.
  • Most “transwiki” !votes in an AfD: 15, tied between:
  • Most “userfy” !votes in an AfD: 9, tied between:
  • First language Wikipedia created: English on 15 January 2001
  • Latest language Wikipedia created as of 23 September 2022: Nigerian Pidgin Wikipedia on 17 August 2022
  • Article in the largest number of languages, including English (apart from the Main Page)
  • Article in the largest number of languages, but not in English: Radio Studio 54 Network (139 languages, previous English version deleted on 14 December 2020)
  • Featured article on the most different language Wikipedias: Mars (29 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

Pictures[edit]

  • Article with most pictures: B8 polytope (2,429 images)
  • Most used picture
  • Most edited picture: 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][dc]
  • Oldest image on Commons: Wikipedia grey square.png, 10 October 2002
  • Largest image file: Vienna-big.tif, 38,970 x 36,186 (1,410,168,420 pixels), 3.94 gigabytes
    • Largest JPG file: “Declaration of victory after the Battle of Leipzig on 18 October 1813”.jpg, 64,172 x 45,559 (2,923,612,148 pixels), 1.49 gigabytes[dd]
    • Largest PNG file: Feuerwehr Trogen GAN Hof04582 psms16 RAW PS202108301056_20211120ABCDx16 2,7GP.png, 65,520 x 43,860 (2,861,913,600 pixels), 3.23 gigabytes[dd]
  • Highest-resolution image file: Mandeldrop20210909 Power100 D-00001 ABC123 00001.png, 65,535 x 65,535 (4,294,836,225 pixels), 72.47 megabytes[de]
  • Smallest image file: Transparent 26Bytes.gif (26 bytes)
  • Highest size-to-resolution ratio: Testxss.gif, which is 24,891 x 25,964 (646,269,924 pixels) despite being only 30 bytes.
  • First vandalism:[f]MarylanD[a] on 24 January 2001[df]
  • Longest undetected vandalism on…
  • 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: Method of focal objects from April 21, 2005 to September 23, 2022 (17 years, 155 days)
  • Longest undetected patent nonsense page: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2013-04-15 from September 27, 2016 to December 4, 2022 (6 years, 68 days)
  • Earliest known salting: History on keyboard instruments, salted on September 5, 2004[dg]
  • Longest unchanged semi-protection in mainspace: Nigga, semi-protected by Wknight94 on 21 February 2007.[dh]

Categories[edit]

Templates[edit]

Articles[edit]

Article number Title Date created
100,000 Hastings, New Zealand 21 January 2003
500,000 Forced settlements in the Soviet Union[dk] 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[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ The 21:16, 16 January 2001 revision was the first time the edit summary was used on Wikipedia.
  4. ^ Users with ID number 0 are reserved for IP addresses.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Unconfirmed
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ William Alston died on 13 September 2009.
  9. ^ Jack Lemmon was created on 16 June 2001 and updated on the day after his death.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Query 61007
  14. ^ Without a full URL
  15. ^ Dealing with turtle graphics
  16. ^ a b A revision no longer exists and was not archived by the Wikipedia 10K Redux.
  17. ^ The earliest surviving accessible PNG postdates to 17 August 2001.
  18. ^ 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
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Featured articles were formerly known as brilliant prose.
  21. ^ This redirect was changed to SnowBoarding by CliffordAdams on 00:26, 28 January 2001, covering up some early vandalism.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ UseModWiki would sometimes change a CamelCase title retroactively to the standard-capitalization title.
  25. ^ Converting the links to [The] Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo to the new format
  26. ^ a b Earlier edits were subsequently imported but did not affect the outcome.
  27. ^ 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.
  28. ^ The subpages were disabled in the main namespace with Phase II software.
  29. ^ Revisions with ID number 0 are reserved for the current revision of a page.
  30. ^ 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
  31. ^ “Tags Mobile edit”. Indeed, very mobile.
  32. ^ Originally titled ChristianityTalk
  33. ^ Query 61003
  34. ^ Query 61004
  35. ^ Originally titled Damian Yerrick/Talk
  36. ^ Query 61587, which lists the lowest page IDs in the Wikipedia namespace. All other pages with page IDs below that one were originally in the main namespace, because the Wikipedia namespace did not exist until the Phase II software. The original title of the “User preferences help” page was Wikipedia:Help/User preferences. Also, its page history appears to be truncated, per the first edit summary; compare the page with the next-highest page ID, Wikipedia:PHP script new features, which has a recorded edit from 26 January 2002.
  37. ^ Originally titled CategorySchemesTalk
  38. ^ This does not show up in query 61008 because its page ID is 12917850.
  39. ^ a b Originally in filespace before being moved to Commons
  40. ^ 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).
  41. ^ Query 61009
  42. ^ Query 61010
  43. ^ Query 61011
  44. ^ Query 61014
  45. ^ Query 61015
  46. ^ Query 61016
  47. ^ Category:Engines is listed as being created on 4 January 2003, but this is due to a clock reset; see T4219 and User:Graham87/Page history observations § Strange times reported in diffs
  48. ^ Query 61017
  49. ^ Query 61018
  50. ^ Query 61019
  51. ^ Query 61020
  52. ^ Moved from mainspace in August 2020; the Draft namespace was not created until December 2013.
  53. ^ Query 61022
  54. ^ Query 61023
  55. ^ Query 61024
  56. ^ Query 61025
  57. ^ Query 61026
  58. ^ a b Also the only page in the namespace
  59. ^ Query 61027
  60. ^ Query 61028
  61. ^ 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.
  62. ^ 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.
  63. ^ According to the Wayback Machine, the earliest confirmed entry in the “In the news” section is the United States invasion of Afghanistan on 30 October 2001.
  64. ^ The “Recent deaths” section 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 attempt to separate them was made in 2002. In those same early days, the articles of both sections were simply linked on the Main Page without any blurbs.
  65. ^ On 15 January 2011, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia, the “Today’s featured article” blurb was replaced with a featured list, Moons of Saturn, which was also a featured topic and featured sound.
  66. ^ This occurred before {{TOC limit|4}} reduced it to 129.
  67. ^ Greek mythology was the only other article that had been continuously featured since 2001, until it was demoted in March 2021.
  68. ^ Tropical Depression Ten (2005) was merged to 2005 Atlantic hurricane season on 21 January 2020.
  69. ^ As of 2022 April 1
  70. ^ As of 2022 April 2
  71. ^ 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
  72. ^ As of 2023 January 23, only three users have more than 200 talk page archives: Jimbo Wales, CLCStudent (who has 243), and JzG (who has 213).
  73. ^ a b In the absence of special pages
  74. ^ 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.
  75. ^ This record was set in the period after his death.
  76. ^ Donald Trump received 6.1 million views the day after he won the 2016 United States presidential election.
  77. ^ The Gadget namespace has one page (the redirect Gadget:Invention, Travel, & Adventure) with three edits.
  78. ^ There are two namespaces with no edits (Gadget definition and Gadget definition talk). 3 edits is the least edits which is larger than zero.
  79. ^ 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.
  80. ^ Figure only includes editors in the past 50,000 revisions. Extrapolating that figure to the 717,123 total edits it has received in its current incarnation gives an estimate of about 170,000 editors.
  81. ^ This was before semi-protection was added to Wikipedia, so many of those edits were vandalism and associated reversions.
  82. ^ Ser Amantio di Nicolao is aided by semi-automated tools, as stated on his userpage.
  83. ^ Query 63562
  84. ^ This occurred due to a database crash.
  85. ^ Nearly all links to Wikipedia:Sandbox are from template messages on user talk pages.
  86. ^ Nearly all links to Network address translation are from template messages on IP talk pages.
  87. ^ Nearly all links to ISBN (identifier) are from citation templates where an ISBN number is given.
  88. ^ More accurate searches are possible but expensive and give similar results.
  89. ^ a b Query 54051
  90. ^ Excludes the 9 hidden categories this article is a member of.
  91. ^ The 68 top articles are international conventions with a category for each participant.
  92. ^ As of 13 February 2020
  93. ^ Selected from a top-10 list of disambiguation pages in 2014[2]
  94. ^ a b Coincides with MediaWiki 1.4
  95. ^ 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.
  96. ^ The current article is about a different Daniel Brandt than the individual in the Essjay controversy.
  97. ^ Transwikied to Wikibooks as a result of this AfD
  98. ^ Includes AfD (Articles for deletion), VfD (Votes for deletion), and DRV (Deletion review) discussions
  99. ^ Deleted and later redone
  100. ^ This is difficult to determine because the Oracle’s parsing starts to break down as you go back past 2005 where many log pages are erroneously parsed as being completely empty. Nonetheless, it is possible to search individual logpage contents for the string “{{“, and approximate how many AfD transclusions there are. It is also possible to sort the logpages by size.
  101. ^ Query 57896
  102. ^ Query 60970
  103. ^ Query 65798
  104. ^ Phase II software had no way to upload sounds.
  105. ^ From query 65805, largest whatevers on Commons and query 65810, for JPGs
  106. ^ Deleted in 2009, archived on archive.org.
  107. ^ a b Query 65798
  108. ^ a b Query 65803
  109. ^ The revision was also the first spam. It lasted five hours before being reverted.
  110. ^ 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.
  111. ^ Wikipedia:Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected articles
  112. ^ Query 61047
  113. ^ The template displays 33 other navigation templates but is only used in four articles.
  114. ^ Originally titled Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union

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