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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

See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles, Wikipedia:2001

• First page: HomePage created on 15 January 2001
• First edit: HomePage on 15 January 2001
• First named user: January 17: First known named user: User:ScottMoonen
• 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

  

  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 because of the way UseModWiki worked): UuU (20:08 UTC, 16 January 2001)
• Longest article: List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States ‎(780K as of August 18, 2014)
• Longest article that is not a list: South African labour law ‎(339k as of August 18, 2014); longest article without embedded lists: South African labour law ‎(339k as of August 18, 2014)
• Longest biography article: René Vilatte (294K as of August 18, 2014)
• Longest featured article: Barack Obama (as of August 18, 2014)
• Shortest featured article: How Brown Saw the Baseball Game (as of August 18, 2014)
• Articles with the most references/citations:
  • That is a list: List of city nicknames in the United States has 1203, as of December 11, 2014
  • That is a biography: Bobby Fischer has 629 as of August 18, 2014
  • That is not a list nor a biography: Sexuality in ancient Rome has 619 as of August 18, 2014
• Most references for one sentence: 172 in 21 May 2010 version of Educology.
• Largest article talk page including archives: Talk:Intelligent design (17.1 MB as of 25 January 2014)
• Most archives of a main namespace talk page: Talk:Jesus (123 as of 1 August 2014)
• Most archives of a non-main namespace talk page: Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship (228 as of 1 August 2014)
• Most archives of a non-main namespace non-talk page: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (848 as of 1 August 2014)
• Most successful FA nominations: 101 by Wehwalt (see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations)
• Most DYK (Did You Know?) articles: 1431 by Dr. Blofeld (see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of DYKs)
• Most views:
  • The most visited page is 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 Steve Jobs, which had 7.4 million views on 6 October 2011 and 1.6 million on 7 October. The previous record was probably Michael Jackson, which had 5.9 million views on 26 June 2009. In both cases, the record views were set one day after the subjects' deaths.
  • One of the most visited articles on a single day that was not just after the subject's death was 2.5 million views of Sarah Palin, on the day she received the 2008 US Republican Party Vice Presidential nomination.

Edits

• Most edited article:
  • in main article namespace: George W. Bush
  • in any namespace: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
• 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): Cydebot has 4,522,725 edits as of 04:38, 5 August 2013 (UTC).
• Most edits by a user (non-bot): Koavf (1,314,157 edits as of 04:39, 5 August 2014 (UTC))
• Most edits by an IP address: 202.156.6.54 (19,344 edits as of July 5, 2013; 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
217	182	To authorize the President to extend the term of the Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Korea Concerning Civil Uses of Nuclear Energy
210	182	To amend title 10, United States Code, to require an Inspector General investigation of allegations of retaliatory personnel actions taken in response to making protected communications regarding sexual assault
209	170	Suzukake no Ki no Michi de "Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru" to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono
198	167	To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to maintain or replace certain facilities and structures for commercial recreation services at Smith Gulch in Idaho
190	159	Another Demonstration of the Cliff-Guibert Fire Hose Reel, Showing a Young Girl Coming from an Office, Detaching Hose, Running with It 60 Feet, and Playing a Stream, All Inside of 30 Seconds
186	156	To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act to extend through 2018 the authority of the Federal Election Commission to impose civil money penalties on the basis of a schedule of penalties
185	155	To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take certain Federal lands located in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians
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
171	146	Calling on Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., to appoint a special counsel to investigate the targeting of conservative nonprofit groups by the Internal Revenue Service
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)
165	143	International Association of Marble, Slate and Stone Polishers, Rubbers and Sawyers, Tile and Marble Setters' Helpers and Marble Mosaic and Terrazzo Workers' Helpers

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 131 articles have titles of a single Unicode character: ¥, À, Ã, È, Ê, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ò, Õ, Ú, Û, Ā, Ă, Ć, Ĉ, Ċ, Č, Ď, Ė, Ě, Ĝ, Ğ, Ġ, Ĥ, Ĵ, Ń, Ň, ʼn, Ŕ, Ř, Ś, Ŝ, 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, Ƞ, Ȥ, Ȧ, Ȳ, ɪ, ּ, ک, ݙ, ݭ, ॰, Ḍ, Ḑ, Ḥ, Ḫ, Ḱ, Ḷ, Ḿ, Ṛ, Ṣ, Ṭ, Ẋ, Ẓ, ẗ, Ẽ, ←, ↑, →, ↓, ∂, ∆, ≡, ≤, ⊿, ✕, ✖, Ⱬ, Ⱳ, ⱺ, 了, 京, 仝, 侍, 內, 兩, 剣, 圓, 属, 我, 晋, 林, 桂, 申, 神, 美, 膾, 蜀, 蝶, 道, 郡, 部, 鄂, 酒, 阝, 餅, 魁, 鲁, Ꞅ

Links

• Page linked to by most other pages: Wikipedia:Sandbox‏‎
• Most linked article in main namespace: IP address
• Article with most links:
• Article in most categories: Forced Labour Convention‏‎, in 278 categories as of April 25, 2014, when the first 190 articles were international conventions with a category for each member state
• Most categories for a non-convention article: Winston Churchill (116) and Janet Jackson(115)
• Most external links in whole article: Perhaps List of MeSH codes (D02), 2542 external links, all to the same site (April 25, 2014)
• Oldest red link:
• Most linked to image: (4,918,362 pages as of 10 November 2014) (see Special:MostLinkedFiles)

Disambiguation pages

• In May 2014 the disambiguation pages with the largest numbers of entries were:

Disambiguation page	Number of "May refer to" entries
St. Mary's Church	584
Communist Party (disambiguation)	569
Aliabad	520

Consensus participation

• 687 - WikiProject Usability/Main Page
• 600 - Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Default State RFC#Question 1: When a new account is created, should the preference be set to disable VE ("opt-in") or to enable VE ("opt-out")?
• 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 2
• 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: Russia in 271 languages
  • including test wikis: Kurów in 345 languages (See Stats)
• Featured article on the most different language Wikipedias: Mars (19)
• Featured article in largest number of language Wikipedias but not English: World War II (18)
• Featured article 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 Featuredness)
• Language with highest percentage of featured articles:
• Fastest-growing language Wikipedia:

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 4,776,141 times
  • Counting only links from main-namespace articles, File:Question book-new.svg () is used 407,468 times
• First picture: (fill in if found)
• Most edited picture: (fill in if found)
• Oldest picture on record: (many tied at 11:49, 20 July 2002)
• Oldest featured picture: (fill in if found)
• 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: (fill in if found)
• Longest undetected vandalism in article: Callus corrupted on 2 August 2006, nonsense removed on 14 September 2011 after 5 years, 1 month, 12 days; vandalism recognised and original sense restored on 1 September 2014, 8 years, 0 months, 30 days after vandalism.
• Longest undetected vandalism in media files: File:Burnin' Up Single Cover.JPG, edit made on 25 September 2008, fixed on 20 January 2015; an interval of 6 years, 3 months, 26 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 deleted article: Probability derivations for making low hands in Omaha hold 'em (305 kB), 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: Ezbet el-Borg
• 100,000th user: User:Wakmah
• Millionth user: User:Jchriscampbell
• See also Wikipedia:Milestone statistics

High-use pages

• Most linked-to categories
• Most linked-to files
• Most linked-to pages
• Most transcluded pages
• Pages with the most interwikis
• Pages with the most revisions (article pages)

Database reports

• Long pages (all pages on the project)
• Talk pages by size
• Most-watched pages
• Most-watched pages by namespace
• Most-watched users
• Pages with the most revisions
• Long stubs

See also

• History of Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Statistics
• Wikipedia: Article traffic jumps