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*Longest undetected vandalism: [[:File:Munch Scream Thieves 2004.jpg]], edit made on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=100565074 13 Januay 2007], fixed on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=100565074 3 May 2012]; an interval of 5 years, 3 months, 29 days. |
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*Longest undetected vandalism in articles: [[Noble gas]] (a [[wp:FA|Featured article]]), edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_gas&action=historysubmit&diff=340565117&oldid=340565079 made] 28 January 2010, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_gas&action=historysubmit&diff=474320754&oldid=474000851 reverted] 31 January 2012. Total length of time undetected: 2 years and 3 days. |
*Longest undetected vandalism in articles: [[Noble gas]] (a [[wp:FA|Featured article]]), edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_gas&action=historysubmit&diff=340565117&oldid=340565079 made] 28 January 2010, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_gas&action=historysubmit&diff=474320754&oldid=474000851 reverted] 31 January 2012. Total length of time undetected: 2 years and 3 days. |
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*Longest undetected vandalism in a BLP: [[Andi Peters]], edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andi_Peters&action=historysubmit&diff=291723230&oldid=291548905 made] 23 May 2009, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andi_Peters&diff=next&oldid=392403117 reverted] 28 October 2010. Total length of time undetected: 1 year 5 months 5 days. |
*Longest undetected vandalism in a BLP: [[Andi Peters]], edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andi_Peters&action=historysubmit&diff=291723230&oldid=291548905 made] 23 May 2009, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andi_Peters&diff=next&oldid=392403117 reverted] 28 October 2010. Total length of time undetected: 1 year 5 months 5 days. |
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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 16 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]
Articles
- Oldest surviving edit (older edits have existed, but have since been lost during software changes): UuU (20:08 UTC, 16 January 2001)
- Longest article: List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters (394K as of June 1, 2012)
- 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 most references:
- (previously Suicide bombings in Iraq since 2003 with 895, before it was split)
- That is a biography: Larry Norman has 616 as of July 31, 2012
- That is a list: List of former NTA Film Network affiliates in the United States has 1,122 as of February, 2013
- That is not a list nor a biography: Sexuality in ancient Rome has 615 as of March 18, 2012
- Most archives of a main namespace talk page: Talk:Jesus (116)
- Most archives of a non-main namespace talk page: Talk:Main Page (166)
- Most successful FA nominations: 59 by YellowMonkey (see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations)
- Most DYK (Did You Know?) articles: 890+ by Dr. Blofeld
- 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 Michael Jackson, which had 5.9 million views on 26 June 2009 (one day after his sudden death).[3]
Edits
- Most edited article:[4]
- in main article namespace: George W. Bush[4]
- in any namespace: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism[4]
- 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): SmackBot
- Most edits by a user (non-bot): [user does not want to be identified] (923,919 edits as of December 14, 2011)[5]
- Most edits by a known user (non-bot): Koavf (787,970 edits as of December 14, 2011)[5]
- Most edits by an IP address: 202.156.6.54 (19,456 edits as of October 22, 2009; 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 159 articles have titles of a single Unicode character: ∆, 桂, 申, 鄂, ≏, ⊿, Ȋ, 侍, 餅, 十, 蝶, 属, ک ,ݐ, 了, 美, 東, 內, 鲁, Ẋ, ←, ✕, 神, ˠ, ✖, 郡, Ọ, 兩, ݜ, 酒, 部, 膾, ݪ ,ݫ, 阝, Ẽ, 晋, Ꞅ, Ƌ, Ķ, 林, ּ, Ḿ, ݭ ,ݙ, Ḥ, 剣, ↓, Ẓ, Ƅ , ↑, 道, Ƽ, ≤, Ḱ, Ⱬ, ॰, Ǩ, Ḫ, 京, Ⱳ, ≡, Ƹ, Ƭ, Ṣ, Ḑ, Ʈ, Ɲ, Ì, Ṛ, →, Ƥ, Ṭ, Ɨ, 蜀, Ʋ, Ƈ, Ȳ, Ɯ, Ŕ, 圓, Ȥ, ẗ, Ƞ, Ƃ, Ʊ, Ȧ, Ź, Ḍ, ⱺ, Ǧ, È, Ċ, Ť, Ě, Ŝ, Ď, Ĵ, Ň, Ƙ, Ė, Ř, Ś, Ḷ, ɪ, Ò, Ã, À, Ń, Ï, Ư, Ɗ, ʼn, ∂, Ɵ, Ơ, Ĉ, Ć, Ĝ, Ā, Û, Ƴ, Ġ, ¥, Í, Ĥ, Ă, Ə, Č, Ƒ, Ŭ, Ɓ, Î, Õ, Ú, Ğ, Ê, Ż
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 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)
- Article Featured on the most different language wikipedias: Julius Caesar (13)
- Featured article in largest number of languages but not English: Julius Caesar, featured in 13 languages
- Article Featured 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:
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
- 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 Januay 2007, fixed on 3 May 2012; an interval of 5 years, 3 months, 29 days.
- Longest undetected vandalism in articles: Noble gas (a Featured article), edit made 28 January 2010, reverted 31 January 2012. Total length of time undetected: 2 years and 3 days.
- Longest undetected vandalism in a BLP: Andi Peters, edit made 23 May 2009, reverted 28 October 2010. Total length of time undetected: 1 year 5 months 5 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 lifespan before deletion: Wikipedia:Bad Jokes And Other Deleted Nonsense, one of Wikipedia's oldest pages, was deleted in May 2007, but was later recreated. No word on the oldest article that has stayed deleted, though Daniel Brandt is a good opening bid.
- 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: Izbat Al 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
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- Most Rated Article:
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- ^ a b Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits