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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]
The Virgin River Narrows in Zion National Park, located near Springdale, Utah, is a 16-mile long slot canyon along the Virgin River. Recently rated as number five out of National Geographic's Top 100 American Adventures, it is one of the most rewarding hikes in the world.
Photo credit: Jon Sullivan, pdphoto.org

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.

Characters counting spaces	Characters excluding spaces	Article title
208	168	Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D
182	182	Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
180	153	Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders
172	145	Agreement between the United States of America and the European Union on the use and transfer of Passenger Name Records to the United States Department of Homeland Security
167	145	International Association of Marble, Slate and Stone Polishers, Rubbers and Sawyers, Tile and Marble Setters' Helpers and Marble Mosaic and Terrazzo Workers' Helpers
167	143	Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds)
154	133	Stereophonic Musical Listenings That Have Been Origin in Moving Film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"

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

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

References

^ Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles
^ Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2004
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- Most Rated Article:
"Wikipedia article traffic statistics: [[Michael Jackson]]". 2009-06. Retrieved 2010-04-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); URL–wikilink conflict (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions
^ ^a ^b Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits

[1] Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles

[2] Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/May_2004

[3] 
Most Rated Article:
"Wikipedia article traffic statistics: [[Michael Jackson]]". 2009-06. Retrieved 2010-04-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); URL–wikilink conflict (help)

[4] Most Rated Article:

[MostRevisions-4] Wikipedia:Database reports/Pages with the most revisions

[WikipediansByNumEdits-5] Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits

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