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First page and edit: HomePage on 19:27, 15 January 2001
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First non-stub/list article: AfghanistaN[a] on 16 January 2001
First named user: ScottMoonen[b] on 16 January 2001[c]
User with the earliest creation date per Special:ListUsers: WojPob on 29 January 2001
User with ID number 1:[d][e] Damian Yerrick on 29 September 2001
First female contributor:[f] RoseParks[g]
First named female contributor: GaythaLanglois on 17 January 2001
First biographical article: ThomasReid on 00:10, 17 January 2001
First biographical article of a living person: William Alston[h] on 00:13, 17 January 2001
First biographical article to be updated after the subject's death: Jack Lemmon on 22:55, 28 June 2001[i][j][k]
First image: http://www.8ung.at/hansjoergbrugger/geige.gif on 19:03, 19 January 2001[l]
First JPG: http://www.lclark.edu/~nilsen/nilsenfam.jpg at HumanComputerInteraction on 10:12:44, 25 January 2001
First PNG:[m] turtle.png[n] at Logo (programming language) on 30 March 2001[o]
First PNG with full URLs: http://www.pobratyn.com/data/wikipedia-banner.png and http://www.pobratyn.com/data/wikipedia-banner2.png at User:WojPob/banners on 12 June 2001[o][p]
First SVG: File:Cirles of confusion lens diagram.svg on 13 January 2003
First used picture to be officially hosted on Wikipedia's servers: http://www.wikipedia.com/images/eca311.jpg at Golden Gate Bridge on 31 July 2001
First image uploaded to MediaWiki: mark_twain.jpg[q][r]
First featured article (FA):[s] TheCanonofScripture, MathematicalGrouP, and NewZealand on 23:53, 21 January 2001
First redirect: SnowBOARDING[t]
First attempted free link: [[test]] on 28 January 2001[u]
First successful free link:[f] [[word]] on 18 February 2001[v]
First page not created as CamelCase: Alabama on 19 February 2001[w]
First free link in an article: AfricA[a] on 20 February 2001[x]
Oldest surviving edit without intervention:[y] UuU[a] on 20:08, 16 January 2001
First page deletion: AfGhanistan on 24 January 2001[z]
First subpage: AtlasShrugged/TaggartTranscontinental on 29 January 2001[aa]
Revision with ID number 1:[ab][y] Wikipedia:Wikipedians on 14:25, 26 January 2002
Last surviving article created in the main namespace by an anonymous user:[f] Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana on 5 December 2005[ac]
First edit made from outer space: List of spacewalks since 2015 by Astro Christina on 18:16, 17 November 2019[ad]
Oldest pages in each namespace Edit
All were originally in the main namespace unless otherwise stated. Fill in each namespace's record iff found. Omit the prefix.

Main: HomePage on 19:27, 15 January 2001
Talk: Christianity/Archive 1 on 26 January 2001[ae]
User: ScottMoonen on 16 January 2001
User talk: Damian Yerrick on 1 October 2001[af]
Wikipedia: UuU on 16 January 2001
Wikipedia talk: Contents/CategorySchemesTalk on 27 January 2001[ag]
File: Europeanunion-med.png[ah] on 11:49, 20 July 2002[ai]
Template: {{Periodic table}} on 02:27, 30 September 2002
Special: RecentChanges on 16 January 2001[aj]
Category: World War II on 03:59, 30 May 2004[ak]
First Main Page section appearances Edit
Main page: Wikipedia:History of the Main Page
The English-language Wikipedia's first picture of the day
First picture of the day: The Narrows in Zion National Park, located near Springdale, Utah, is a 16-mile long slot canyon along the Virgin River. Featured in a 2010 National Geographic list of the 100 best American adventure trips, it is one of the most rewarding hikes in the world.[1]
First main page version: 15 January 2001, only saying "This is the new WikiPedia!"[al]
First event on In the news:[f] September 11 attacks on 11 September 2001[am]
First recent death:[f] Dudley Moore on 27 March 2002[an]
First (and only as of 2021) {{In the news/special-header}}: 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, from 16 March 2020 to 29 January 2021
First On this day: 21 October 2002 (linked article version)
First Today's featured article (TFA): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 22 February 2004
First Did you know (DYK): Pencil sharpener on 22 February 2004
First Picture of the day: Virgin River Narrows (pictured) on 14 May 2004
First Today's featured list: List of signs and symptoms of diving disorders on 13 June 2011
Articles Edit
Longest current articles
that is not a list or timeline: ‎Presidency of Donald Trump ‎(480,465 bytes as of 12 November 2021)
that is a list or timeline: ‎List of chess grandmasters (475,259 bytes as of 12 November 2021)
that is a biography: Donald Trump (429,030 bytes as of 12 November 2021)
that is a non-political biography: Taylor Swift (367,721 bytes as of 12 November 2021)
that is a featured list: List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (472,733 bytes as of 12 November 2021)
that is a featured article: Taylor Swift (367,721 bytes as of 12 November 2021)
that is a good article (GA): Kerala (358,886 bytes as of 30 August 2021)
Longest article at creation date: List of named minor planets (numerical) on 02:01, 2 November 2016 (2,024,726 bytes)
Articles with the most references
that is a list: List of lakes of Ontario: B (2,213 references as of 9 October 2021)
that is a biography: Joseph Stalin (933 references as of 12 November 2021)
that is neither a list nor a biography: Sutton Hoo helmet (849 references as of 8 September 2021)
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: Standard 52-card deck (10 hatnotes on 10:25, 3 June 2019)
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)[ao]
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:[y] Christian Huygens from 14:32, 27 February 2002 to 02:04, 7 May 2021 (19 years, 69 days)
Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace that is not a redirect page:[f] Granger-Thye Act of 1950 from 00:00, 14 September 2009 to 21:43, 5 July 2019 (9 years, 294 days)[ap]
Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace discounting bot edits:[f] Buck Island from 11:32, 31 January 2009 to 17:00, 26 March 2019 (10 years, 54 days)
Longest continuously-featured article: Byzantine Empire (promoted on 26 May 2001 and having no record of ever being demoted as of 4 October 2021)[aq]
Shortest FA ever: Tropical Depression Ten (2005) on 23:02, 7 December 2019 (8,762 bytes)[ar]
Shortest current FA: Miss Meyers (9,514 bytes as of 30 August 2021)
Shortest current GA: M-105 (Michigan highway) (3,198 bytes as of 4 March 2021)
Most successful FA nominations by a Wikipedian: Wehwalt (206 nominations)[as]
Most successful DYK nominations by a Wikipedian: Gerda Arendt (1711 nominations)[at]
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)
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)Longest time between the creation of an article and its talk page:
For a non-redirect: Celestial globe, created by an unknown user between 20 December 2001 and 25 January 2002,[au] talk page created on 6 July 2020. However, this was a redirect between July 2005, when WikiProject tags on talk pages were uncommon, and November 2016.
For an article that has never been a redirect: Theatre Owners Booking Association, created on 10 May 2005, talk page created on 24 December 2020
For a redirect: PopularMusic, created as an article on 16 January 2001, talk page created on 6 July 2020
Largest article talk page including archives: Donald Trump (19.28 MB as of 11 December 2020)
Most archives of a...
Mainspace talk page: Main Page (202)
Mainspace talk page that isn't the Main Page: Donald Trump (140) and Jesus (134)
User talk page: Jimbo Wales (247)
Wikipedia talk page: Requests for adminship (260)
Wikipedia non-talk page: Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions (1,129)
File talk page: Same-sex marriage in the United States.svg (18)
MediaWiki talk page: Common.js (20)
Template talk page: {{Infobox person}} (37)
Help talk page: Citation Style 1 (79)
Category talk page: Living people (4)
Portal talk page: Current events (12)
Draft talk page: List of sex symbols (2)
Module talk page: Citation/CS1 (12)
These are current as of 8 November 2021. There are no pages with archives in the TimedText talk, Gadget talk, or Gadget definition talk namespaces.
Views Edit
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.

Cumulative views Edit
Cumulative views Edit
Main page: Wikipedia:Multiyear ranking of most viewed pages § Top-100 list
Most visited page: Main Page, followed by Special:Search and Special:Random
Most visited article:[av] Wiki, followed by Facebook and then YouTube[aw]
Most visited article that is not about a website: Donald Trump, followed by United States and then Barack Obama
Most visited article that is not about a website nor related specifically to the United States: India, followed by Elizabeth II and then World War II
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 visited article on a single day:[av] Chadwick Boseman on 29 August 2020 (9,929,065 views)[ax]
Most visited article on a single day that was not just after the subject's death: Donald Trump on 9 November 2016 (6,125,896 views)[ay]
Edits Edit
Most edited pages (as of 6 January 2021)
in any namespace: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (1,705,849 edits)
in the Main namespace: List of WWE personnel (53,116 edits)
Most edited page in the Main namespace that is not a list: George W. Bush (47,184 edits)
in Talk: Main Page (149,605 edits)
in User: Cyde/List of candidates for speedy deletion/Subpage (991,611 edits)
in User talk: Jimbo Wales (159,132 edits)
in Wikipedia talk: Did you know (99,268 edits)
in MediaWiki talk: Spam-blacklist (22,935 edits)
in Template: Cratstats (100,014 edits)
in Template talk: Did you know (374,122 edits)
in Portal: Current events/Sports (41,643 edits)
in Help talk: Citation Style 1 (23,671 edits)
in Draft: Sandbox (48,887 edits)
in Module: Syrian Civil War detailed map (18,324 edits)
Most-edited namespace:[f] Main
Least-edited namespace: Gadget (2 edits)[az]
Article edited by the largest number of users:[f] Wikipedia (13,671 editors)[ba]
Article edited by the largest number of users outside of the mainspace:[f] Wikipedia:Sandbox (12,024 editors)[bb]
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)[bc]
Most edits by a bot: WP 1.0 bot (7,068,624 edits as of 18 April 2020)
Most edits by a Wikipedian: Ser Amantio di Nicolao (4,200,390 edits as of 2 May 2021)[bd]
Most edits by an IP address: 68.39.174.238 (26,843 edits as of 1 July 2021)
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[be]
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
Title length Edit
Articles with the longest titles
The MediaWiki software limits the length of the 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.

Longest article title: Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles (253 characters)
Longest article title without spaces: Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon (183 characters)
Longest full typed number with an article: 4,294,967,295
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
132 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, 剣, 圓, 林, 桂, 申, 神, 膾, 蜀, 道, 郡, 部, 鄂, 酒, 阝, 餅, 鲁
Links Edit
Record Page Number As of Note
Page linked to by most other pages Wikipedia:Sandbox 6,803,328 10 January 2021 [bf]
Article in main namespace with most inbound links Network address translation‏‎ 2,355,236 10 January 2021 [bg]
Article or redirect linked to by most other articles ISBN (identifier)‏‎ 1,226,401 links 19 January 2021 [bh]
Article linked to by most other articles in their own source text (not via templates) United States‏‎ 387,000 links (approx.) 19 January 2021 [bi]
Most distinct outgoing links[bj] (list or list-like article) Index of Singapore-related articles 12,289 12 April 2021 [2]
Most distinct outgoing links[bj] (not a list or list-like article) Classical Hollywood cinema 4,191 12 April 2021 [2]
Article in most categories Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (tied with First Geneva Convention) 252 16 November 2021 [bk]
Non-convention article in most categories Bertrand Russell 201 5 February 2021
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 18 November 2021
Longest lasting red link in an article Islamic Armed Movement on Abdelhak Layada Created 28 June 2006 18 November 2021
Image linked on most pages File:Information.svg 8,159,474 5 February 2021
Disambiguation pages with the most "may refer to" entries as of 13 February 2020:[bl]
Page Entries
St. Mary's Church 782
Aliabad 522
Hoseynabad 501
Communist Party (disambiguation) 331
Hasanabad 310
Set index article (not quite the same as a disambiguation page) with the most entries: List of television episodes titled Pilot (1641 entries as of 6 February 2021)
Consensus participation Edit
Further information: Wikipedia:Times that 100 Wikipedians supported something, Wikipedia:Times that 200 Wikipedians supported something, Wikipedia:Times that 300 or more Wikipedians supported something, and Wikipedia:Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something
Requests for adminship/bureaucratship Edit
Latest unopposed request for adminship (RfA): Trialpears on 13 June 2021
Latest unanimous (no opposes or neutrals) RfA: Same as above
Most !votes on an RfA: Floquenbeam 2 in July 2019 (456 !votes)
Most !votes on an RfB: Juliancolton in July 2009 (302 !votes)
Largest successful RfA: Oshwah 2 in August 2016 (306,087 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
Deletion Edit
Further information: User:JPxG/Oracle/Largest AfDs and User:JPxG/Oracle/All
Oldest entry in the old deletion log: Alan Millar/Status, by Larry_Sanger on 17:31:23, 28 February 2002
Oldest entry in the modern deletion log: Vivian Blaine, by Slowking Man on 03:20, 23 December 2004[bm]
Most-deleted article: The weather in London (81 times)[bn]
Most deleted (and recreated) article: Daniel Brandt (40 times)[bo]
Longest deleted article: Probability derivations for making low hands in Omaha hold 'em (305 KB)[bp]
Statistics Edit
First daily deletion logpage: 25 December 2004 (to which 22 debates were automatically transcluded on 29 December).
First monthly deletion logpage: July 2004, created on 1 August.
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:[4] 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 2004.
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
By month Edit
All AfD outcomes from 2005 to 2020, stacked
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).

Busiest month: December 2005 (5,393 AfDs).
Slowest month: December 2018 (1,240 AfDs).
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").
Least speedy month: February 2020, 3.41%.
Most indecisive month: February 2014, 14.60% (1,619 AfDs, of which 236 closed "no consensus" or "withdraw").
Least indecisive month: December 2020, 4.32%.
Individual discussions Edit
Most articles nominated in a single deletion discussion: Mayoral elections (271 articles)
Article with the most deletion discussions:[bq] Gay Nigger Association of America (41 discussions)[br]
Largest AfD page: List of notable converts to Christianity (3rd nomination), from May 2007 (234,775 bytes)
Most !votes in an AfD discussion: 301, on Esoteric programming languages (March 2006), in a gargantuan 60-page batch nomination
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 an AfD: 146, on the same AfD.
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 an AfD: 214, on Esoteric programming languages (March 2006).
Most "delete" !votes in a non-batched AfD: 113, on Emily J. Hilscher (April 2007). In total there were 218 !votes.
Most "speedy keep" !votes in an AfD: 17, on Veracity of statements by Donald Trump (3rd nomination) (May 2020). In total there were 32 !votes, including 12 normal "keep"s and three "delete"s.
Most "speedy delete" !votes in an AfD: 11, tied between:
Sophie Halliday (January 2006)
The GDT (May 2006)
Matt Boyd (amateur wrestler) (August 2006)
Internet Invasion of May 6th, 2007 (May 2007)
Most "merge" !votes in an AfD: 124, on Brian Chase (Wikipedia hoaxer) (December 2005).
Most "merge" !votes in an AfD that is not Brian Chase (Wikipedia hoaxer): 76, on Covfefe (May 2017). In total, there were 209 !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:
List of hello world programs (February 2006)
On the Jews and Their Lies (excerpts) (May 2006)
In Event of Moon Disaster (October 2007)
Most "userfy" !votes in an AfD: 9, tied between:
WebBoulevard (January 2007)
Wikimob (May 2006)
Most "draftify" !votes in an AfD: 10, on List of American films of 2023 (November 2020), out of just 13 !votes total.
Most "move" !votes in an AfD: 21, on Ahmed Mohamed (student) (September 2015), out of 126 total.
Languages Edit
First language Wikipedia created: English on 15 January 2001
Latest language Wikipedia created as of 26 March 2021: Taroko Wikipedia on 16 March 2021
Article in the largest number of languages, including English (apart from the Main Page)
excluding test wikis: Finland (311 languages)
including test wikis: Kurów (363 languages)
Article in the largest number of languages, but not in English: China (cultural region) (79 languages)
Featured article on the most different language Wikipedias: Solar System (22 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
in main namespace articles: File:Information.svg (4,776,141 times)
counting only links from main namespace articles: File:Question book-new.svg (407,468 times)
Most edited picture: File: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][bs]
Oldest picture accessible under current MediaWiki records: File:Europeanunion-med.png[ah] on 11:49, 20 July 2002[l][ai]
Oldest currently-accessible image revision: File:Hoaxed photo of the Loch Ness monster.jpg on 10:51, 15 March 2003
Oldest entry in the modern upload log: File:Mini Christmas tree.png by Fredrik on 23 December 2004[bm]
Oldest own work file uploaded: File:Student Quarters-1.jpg from 6 March 1954 by Tequask
Largest image size: File:Location of Earth (9x1-English Annot-small).png (558.54 MB)
Smallest image size: File:teganexd.png (8 bytes) (the smallest possible image that can be created)
Sounds Edit
The first sound was File:SAMPA Q dot bomb wasp English RP.ogg, originally uploaded on 11:49, 20 July 2002.[bt]

Vandalism Edit
First vandalism:[f] MarylanD[a] on 24 January 2001[bu]
Longest undetected vandalism in an article: List of members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party from 19 February 2007 to 5 October 2021 (14 years, 228 days)
Longest undetected vandalism on a redirect page: Windsor castle from 19 January 2006 to 03 May 2021 (15 years, 104 days)
Longest undetected vandalism in a file: File:Burnin' Up Single Cover.JPG from 25 September 2008 to 20 January 2015 (6 years, 117 days)
Longest undetected vandalism on a project page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earl Stevenson. from 26 August 2009 to 26 August 2021 (12 years, 0 days)
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: Eduardo Corrochio from July 10, 2005 to August 27, 2021 (16 years, 48 days)
Earliest known salting: History on keyboard instruments, salted on September 5, 2004[bv]
Longest unchanged semi-protection in mainspace: Nigga, semi-protected by Wknight94 on 21 February 2007.[5]
Categories and templates Edit
Categories Edit
Largest category:[bw] Articles with short description
Category in the largest number of languages: United States (241 languages)
but not in English: 1630 disestablishments (4 languages)
Templates Edit
Largest template by page size: {{Map of heritage railways in Great Britain}} (2,040,080 bytes)[bx]
Largest navigation template:[f] Shakespeare's plays (1,837 wikilinks as of 15 June 2020)[by]
Template with the most transclusions: {{Yesno}} (10,830,054 as of 10 August 2019)
Template with the most main-namespace transclusions:[f] {{Navbar}} (8,403,198 as of 10 August 2019)
Module with the most invocations: Arguments (23,270,804 as of 10 August 2019)
Milestones Edit
See also: Wikipedia:Milestone statistics
Articles Edit
Article number Title Date created
100,000 Hastings, New Zealand 21 January 2003
500,000 Forced settlements in the Soviet Union[bz] 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
User number User Date registered
100,000 Wakmah
1,000,000 Jchriscampbell 27 February 2006
High-use pages Edit
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 Edit
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 Edit
History of Wikipedia
Wikipedia:ADMINSTATS
Wikipedia:Statistics
Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps
Notes Edit
This capitalization is correct, as in the early days the last letter of one-word article titles was always capitalized.
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.
The 21:16, 16 January 2001 revision was the first time the edit summary was used on Wikipedia.
Users with ID number 0 are reserved for IP addresses.
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.
Unconfirmed
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.
William Alston died on 13 September 2009.
Jack Lemmon was created on 16 June 2001 and updated on the day after his death.
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.
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.
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.
Without a full URL
Dealing with turtle graphics
A revision no longer exists and was not archived by the Wikipedia 10K Redux.
The earliest surviving accessible PNG postdates to 17 August 2001.
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
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.
Featured articles were formerly known as brilliant prose.
This redirect was changed to SnowBoarding by CliffordAdams on 00:26, 28 January 2001, covering up some early vandalism.
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.
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.
UseModWiki would sometimes change a CamelCase title retroactively to the standard-capitalization title.
Converting the links to [The] Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo to the new format
Earlier edits were subsequently imported but did not affect the outcome.
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.
The subpages were disabled in the main namespace with Phase II software.
Revisions with ID number 0 are reserved for the current revision to the Main Page.
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
"Tags Mobile edit". Indeed, very mobile.
Originally titled ChristianityTalk
Originally titled Damian Yerrick/Talk
Originally titled CategorySchemesTalk
Originally in filespace before being moved to Commons
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).
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.
Has always been in categoryspace
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.
According to the Wayback Machine, the earliest confirmed entry on In the news is the United States invasion of Afghanistan on 30 October 2001.
Recent deaths 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 abortive attempt to separate them was made in 2002. In those same early days, In the news and Recent deaths articles were simply linked on the main page without any blurbs.
This occurred before {{TOC limit|4}} reduced it to 129.
See a list of the current longest-unedited articles on Wikipedia.
Greek mythology was the only other article that had been continuously featured since 2001, until it was demoted in March 2021.
Tropical Depression Ten (2005) was merged to 2005 Atlantic hurricane season on 21 January 2020.
As of 2021 November 11
As of 2021 November 11
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
In the absence of special pages
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.
This record was set in the period after his death.
Donald Trump received 6.1 million views the day after he won the 2016 United States presidential election.
The Gadget namespace has one page (the redirect Gadget:Invention, Travel, & Adventure) with two edits.
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.
Figure only includes editors in the past 50,000 revisions. Extrapolating that figure to the 717,123 total edits it has received gives an estimate of about 170,000 editors.
This was before semi-protection was added to Wikipedia, so many of those edits were vandalism and associated reversions.
Ser Amantio di Nicolao is aided by semi-automated tools, as stated on his userpage.
This occurred due to a database crash.
Nearly all links to Wikipedia:Sandbox are from template messages on user talk pages.
Nearly all links to Network address translation are from template messages on IP talk pages.
Nearly all links to ISBN (identifier)‏‎ are from citation templates where an ISBN number is given.
More accurate searches are possible but expensive and give similar results.
Including template invocations
The 64 top articles are international conventions with a category for each participant.
Selected from a top-10 list of disambiguation pages in 2014[3]
Coincides with MediaWiki 1.4
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.
The current article is about a different Daniel Brandt than the individual in the Essjay controversy.
Transwikied to Wikibooks as a result of this AfD
Includes AfD (Articles for deletion), VfD (Votes for deletion), and DRV (Deletion review) discussions
Deleted and later redone
Deleted in 2009, archived on archive.org.
Phase II software had no way to upload sounds.
The revision was also the first spam. It lasted five hours before being reverted.
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.
Excluding Category:Articles, which includes almost all articles within its subcategories, and Category:Contents, which almost has everything on Wikipedia.
As of 2021 November 11
The template displays 33 other navigation templates but is only used in four articles.
Originally titled Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union Siber, Kate (2 August 2010). "Hike the Zion Narrows, Utah". National Geographic. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
Query 54051 on Quarry
Schneider, Todd (27 May 2014). "What is the Longest Disambiguation Page on Wikipedia?". toddwschneider.com.
This is difficult to determine, because the Oracle's parsing starts to break down as you go back past 2005 (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's also possible to sort the logpages by size.
Wikipedia:Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected articles


== Protected edit request on 29 August 2022 ==
== Protected edit request on 29 August 2022 ==

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Protected edit request on 29 August 2022

Add {{R unprintworthy}}. There's no precise rcat for this kind of cross-namespace redirect since it technically meets CSD R2, but in any case, we should make it clear that a printed redirect to a special page is a waste of paper and ink. Glades12 (talk) 20:43, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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