Wikipedia:Wikipedia records

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Beginnings

• First edit:
• First page: Main Page created on 15 January 2001
• First named user: Jimbo Wales on Tuesday, March 27, 2001
• First featured article: date??
• First Did You Know: Pencil sharpener, on February 23, 2004 (created by user:Raul654 on February 15, 2004)
• First Picture of the Day:

Peppermint, Monday May 31.
Peppermint and Corsican mint plant. Peppermint (Mentha x piperita) is a sterile hybrid mint with a high menthol content, often used in tea and confectionery. Peppermint is the oldest and most popular flavour. Photo credit: Michael Thompson

Articles

• Oldest: UuU (20:08, 16 January 2001)
• Longest article: Line of succession to the British throne (400K as of May 18, 2009)
• Longest article that is not a list: Austrian legislative election, 2008 (306K as of May 18, 2009); longest article without embedded lists: Scottsboro Boys (219K as of May 18, 2009)
• Longest biography article: Adolf Hitler (201K as of May 18, 2009)
• Article with longest introduction:
• Longest featured article: Intelligent design (as of March 23, 2009)
• Shortest featured article: Nico Ditch (as of March 23, 2009)
• Articles with most references:
  • Suicide bombings in Iraq since 2003 has 884 as of June 13, 2009
  • That is a biography: Ion Antonescu has 552 as of May 18, 2009
  • That is not a list or a biography: 2009 swine flu outbreak by country has 466 as of June 2, 2009

• Most archives of one Article talk page: Talk:Jesus (107)
• Most succesful FA nominations - 57 by Lord Emsworth (see Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_featured_article_nominations)
• Most DYK (Did You Know?) articles - 262+ by Piotrus
• Most views:
  • The most visited page is Special:Search of course. Followed by the Main Page and Special:Random. The most viewed article is 2008_Summer_Olympics (Wikipedia Rank 4), followed by Wiki and Sarah Palin. More can be seen here. The top ten shouldn't vary too soon.
  • The most visited article on a single day is most probably Michael Jackson which had 5.9 million views on 26 June 2009 (one day after his sudden death). [1]

Edits

• Most edited article: George W. Bush
• Article edited by the largest number of users:
• Article unedited for the longest time:
• Article that was stub for longest time: IrcII was a stub since some time before 25 February 2002.
• 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): Rjwilmsi (See Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits)
• Most edits by an IP address: 202.156.6.54

Titles

• Article with longest title: Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinylthreonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminy exists as a redirect to Acetylseryltyrosylseryliso...serine. The full title of the chemical exceeds current technical limitations on length of titles.
• There is currently no word concerning the longest article title not a redirect, but Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon is a good opening bid.
• Article with shortest title: Several with one character, such as (1) ' (2) A

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: Common Pipistrelle, with 72 categories (see Special:Mostcategories)
• Oldest red link:
• Most linked to image: (See Mostimages)

Consensus participation

• 900 - 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): Kurów in 207 languages, not including test wikis
• Article Featured on the most different language wikipedias: Albert Einstein (12)
• Featured article in largest number of languages but not English: Albert Einstein, featured in 12 languages
• Article Featured on the highest percentage of different language wikipedias: The Swimming Hole (exists in only in English and German, and is featured on both)
• Language with highest percentage of featured articles:
• Fastest-growing language:

Pictures

• Article with most pictures:
• Picture in most articles:
• First picture:
• Most edited picture:
• Oldest picture on record: (many tied at 11:49, 20 July 2002)
• Oldest featured picture:

Deletion

• Most vandalised article: George W. Bush
• Most vandalised talk page:
• Longest undetected vandalism: File:AlbrechtDukeBavaria.jpg, edit made on 20 November 2006 and reverted 16 June 2009; total length of time undetected: 2 years 6 months 26 days.
• Most deleted (and reborn) article: Daniel Brandt - 40 times created and deleted.
• Article with most AfD nominations: Daniel Brandt - 14 (eventually merged); Gay Nigger Association of America - 18 (deleted)
• Longest lifespan before deletion: Wikipedia:Bad Jokes And Other Deleted Nonsense, one of Wikipedia's oldest pages, was deleted in May 2007, but it has been 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 includes almost all articles within its subcategories.)
• First template:
• Largest template:

Numbers

• 100,000th article: Hastings, New Zealand
• 500,000th article: Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union
• Millionth article: Jordanhill railway station
• 2M article: El Hormiguero
• 1st user: User:Damian Yerrick
• 100,000th user: User:Wakmah
• Millionth user: User:Jchriscampbell
• See also Wikipedia:Milestone statistics

See also

• History of Wikipedia