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This page details various records of Wikipedia and is constantly updated as legitimate records are added by various users.

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Beginnings

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See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles, Wikipedia:First 100 pages, and User:Emijrp/FirstPages

Oldest pages in each namespace

These revisions are mostly found through database queries (linked to from their dates).

First Main Page section appearances

Main page: Wikipedia:History of the Main Page
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Wikipedia's first picture of the day featured the Virgin River Narrows, a 16-mile long slot canyon in Utah. Featured in a 2010 National Geographic list of the 100 Best American Adventure trips.[1]
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These are current as of 28 January 2025. Those who are interested in updating them can use the special searches provided as refnotes to find more: simply change the archive number to one more than the numbers listed here. If you find anything, keep going up until you stop finding more, and then that's the new record. There are no pages with archives in the TimedText talk namespace.
  • Longest talk page thread: unknown
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Views

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

Main page: Wikipedia:Multiyear ranking of most viewed pages § Top-100 list

Records as of 1 January 2023:

Single-day views

Typically, the most visited page on a single day is the Main Page. From 1 January 2023 to 1 January 2025, it averaged 4,747,134 views per day, far more views than any other page.

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Title length

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Articles with the longest titles

See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions) § Title length

The MediaWiki software limits the length of page titles to 255 bytes, thus some titles that would be longer than the ones in the list below are not included. For instance, the full title of When the Pawn... would be 445 bytes.

Articles with the shortest titles

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Redirects

Further information: Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles with the most redirects

Disambiguation pages

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Consensus participation

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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

See also: WP:RFX200
  • Largest unopposed request for adminship (RfA): DanCherek on 9 August 2022 (281 supports)[dd]
    • Most recent unopposed RfA: Sennecaster on 25 December 2024 (230 !votes)
  • Largest unanimous (no opposes or neutrals) RfA: Firefly on 11 March 2022 (246 !votes)
    • Most recent unanimous RfA: Sennecaster on 25 December 2024 (230 !votes)
  • Lowest oppose-support ratio (requiring at least one oppose): theleekycauldron 2 on 17 August 2023 (1:313, or 0.00319)
  • Lowest neutral-support ratio (requiring at least one neutral): JPxG on 02 November 2023 (1:248, or 0.00403)
  • Most !votes on an RfA: Tamzin in May 2022 (468 !votes)
  • Fewest !votes on a successful RfA: Smith03 in July 2003 (1:0:0 = 1), as recorded at Wikipedia:Successful requests for adminship/2003
  • Most !votes on an RfB: Juliancolton in July 2009 (302 !votes)
  • Largest successful RfA: Tamzin in May 2022 (482,907 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
  • Most successful RfA nominator: Wizardman, with 47 successful nominations[15]

Requests for Comment

Deletion

Further information: User:JPxG/Oracle/Largest AfDs and User:JPxG/Oracle/All

Statistics

By month

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).
  • 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").
  • Most indecisive month: February 2014, 14.60% (1,619 AfDs, of which 236 closed "no consensus" or "withdraw").

Individual discussions

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Languages

  • First language Wikipedia created: English on 15 January 2001
  • Article in the largest number of languages, including English (apart from the Main Page)
  • Article in the largest number of languages, but not in English: Radio Studio 54 Network (139 languages, previous English version deleted on 14 December 2020)
  • Featured article on the most different language Wikipedias: Mars (30 languages)
  • Featured article or good article on the most different language Wikipedias: Earth (37 languages)
  • Featured article in the largest number of language Wikipedias but not in English: World War II (22 languages)
  • Featured list on the most different language Wikipedias: List of Nobel laureates in Physics (16 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
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Files

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Pictures

Blink and you'll miss it: Transparent_26Bytes.gif, the smallest image on the project.

Vandalism

Blocks

  • Longest known time under a temporary block:[v] 199.241.184.0/21 from 04:24, 14 October 2012 to 23:56, 31 July 2024 (11 years, 291 days)
  • Longest known overturned indefinite block:[v] Fbob88 from 18:41, 12 March 2006 to 12:43, 3 May 2024 (18 years, 52 days)
  • Longest known active indefinite block:[v] DW (indefinitely blocked on 30 January 2003 with no record of having been unblocked as of 19 April 2025)[dx]

Categories and templates

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Templates

Milestones

See also: Wikipedia:Milestone statistics

Articles

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Users

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High-use pages

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Notes

  1. This capitalization is correct, as in the early days the last letter of one-word article titles was always capitalized.
  2. 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.
  3. The 21:16, 16 January 2001 revision was the first time the edit summary was used on Wikipedia.
  4. Users with ID number 0 are reserved for IP addresses.
  5. 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.
  6. William Alston died on 13 September 2009.
  7. See also this page about a relevant milestone of 20% of biographical articles being about women
  8. Jack Lemmon was created on 16 June 2001 and updated the day after his death.
  9. Dale Earnhardt was created on 22 February 2001. He had 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Query 61007
  13. Without a full URL
  14. Dealing with turtle graphics
  15. A revision no longer exists and was not archived by the Wikipedia 10K Redux.
  16. The earliest surviving accessible PNG postdates to 17 August 2001.
  17. 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
  18. 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.
  19. Featured articles were formerly known as brilliant prose.
  20. This redirect was changed to SnowBoarding by CliffordAdams on 00:26, 28 January 2001, covering up some early vandalism.
  21. 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.
  22. Unconfirmed
  23. 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.
  24. UseModWiki would sometimes change a CamelCase title retroactively to the standard-capitalization title.
  25. Converting the links to [The] Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo to the new format
  26. Earlier edits were subsequently imported but did not affect the outcome.
  27. 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.
  28. The subpages were disabled in the main namespace with Phase II software.
  29. Revisions with ID number 0 are reserved for the current revision of a page.
  30. 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. Compare this discussion.
  31. The article was titled List of spacewalks since 2015 at the time of the edit.
  32. "Tags Mobile edit". Indeed, very mobile.
  33. Originally titled ChristianityTalk
  34. Query 61003
  35. Query 61004
  36. Originally titled Damian Yerrick/Talk
  37. Query 61587, which lists the lowest page IDs in the Wikipedia namespace. All other pages with page IDs below that one were originally in the main namespace, because the Wikipedia namespace did not exist until the Phase II software. The original title of the "User preferences help" page was Wikipedia:Help/User preferences. Also, its page history appears to be truncated, per the first edit summary; compare the page with the next-highest page ID, Wikipedia:PHP script new features, which has a recorded edit from 26 January 2002.
  38. Originally titled CategorySchemesTalk
  39. This does not show up in query 61008 because its page ID is 12917850.
  40. 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.
  41. Query 61014
  42. Query 61015
  43. Query 61018
  44. Query 61019
  45. Originally in filespace before being moved to Commons
  46. Earlier revisions are inaccessible within Wikipedia; the currently accessible version dates only to 2 November 2006.
  47. Images such as game of life blinker.png were uploaded earlier to the English Wikipedia but were added independently to the Wikimedia Commons later.
  48. Query 61009
  49. Query 61010
  50. Query 61011
  51. Query 61016
  52. Category:Engines is listed as being created on 4 January 2003, but this is due to a clock reset; see T4219 and User:Graham87/Page history observations § Strange times reported in diffs
  53. Query 61017
  54. Query 61026
  55. Query 61025
  56. Query 61023
  57. Query 61024
  58. Query 61020
  59. Moved from mainspace in August 2020; the Draft namespace was not created until December 2013.
  60. Query 61022
  61. 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.
  62. According to the Wayback Machine, the earliest confirmed entry in the "In the news" section is the United States invasion of Afghanistan on 30 October 2001.
  63. The "Recent deaths" section 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 attempt to separate them was made in 2002. In those same early days, the articles of both sections were simply linked on the Main Page without any blurbs.
  64. On 15 January 2011, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia, the "Today's featured article" blurb was replaced with a featured list, Moons of Saturn, which was also a featured topic and featured sound.
  65. Query 92178
  66. Query 92186
  67. Query 92183
  68. Query 92797
  69. Query 92798
  70. Query 92189
  71. "Footnotes" here refers to entries in the Notes section, not to references.
  72. The number is down to 175 as of 25 January 2025.
  73. This occurred before {{TOC limit|4}} reduced it to 129.
  74. The article was changed to a redirect on 18 October 2024.
  75. Greek mythology was the only other article that had been continuously featured since 2001, until it was demoted in March 2021.
  76. The oldest surviving revision of Byzantine Empire dates from 4 October 2001. Due to the loss of many of the oldest revisions on Wikipedia, it is unknown what the article looked like when it was promoted. It is also not known when the article was created.
  77. On 11 October 2005, Worldtraveller created WP:Good articles as a proposal, listing "a few example articles that I think are good but nowhere near FA," including Great Comet of 1882. They started the Good Articles WikiProject on 20 February 2006. The same user also created WP:Good article criteria on 10 March 2006, to get consensus about what makes an article "good," and to formalize the project. All the informally listed candidates were subjected to a review once the final criteria had been decided on.
    Of the eight originally proposed "good articles," only Great Comet of 1882 continues to be a Good Article in the modern sense. It was listed as a good article nominee on 26 September 2005 (before WP:Good articles even existed), and received the new badge on 23 October 2005. It was reassessed on 22 September 2007, and kept. It has never been nominated for featured article status. The article was created by Worldtraveller on 25 February 2005.
  78. Excluding edits that were immediately reverted, or only stood for a few minutes.
  79. Tropical Depression Ten (2005) was merged to 2005 Atlantic hurricane season on 21 January 2020.
  80. Of those, 236 are still Featured Articles as of 15 April 2025. One former FA, Borat, has been demoted on 19 November 2022.
  81. 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
  82. Jimbo Wales has 7 letter-based archives.
  83. In the absence of special pages
  84. 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.
  85. This record was set in the period after his death on 28 August.
  86. United States Senate logged 17,110,916 views on 8 February 2020, and the following two months averaged 5 million views per day. It totaled 333 million views in this period, over 99% of them mobile views, and most of them automatic.
  87. This page was moved from Robert Francis Prevost, which had 4,942,757 views on that day.
  88. 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.
  89. Figure only includes editors in the past 50,000 revisions. Extrapolating that figure to the 717,123 total edits it had received by 15 July 2019 gives an estimate of about 170,000 editors.
  90. See the Signpost piece about the development of the article. This was before semi-protection was added to Wikipedia, so many of the edits were vandalism and associated reversions.
  91. MalnadachBot stopped editing on 28 April 2023, and has been blocked indefinitely since 6 June 2023.
  92. Ser Amantio di Nicolao is aided by semi-automated tools, as stated on his userpage.
  93. Query 63562
  94. This occurred due to a database crash.
  95. Page was changed from a redirect to a disambiguation page on 10 October 2010 and back into a redirect on 6 July 2024; both edits were made while the page was a disambiguation page.
  96. 255 characters is the technical limit for article titles. The following redirect has been discussed at RfD in November 2024.
  97. Incomplete list
  98. Nearly all links to Network address translation are from template messages on IP talk pages.
  99. Nearly all links to ISBN (identifier) are from citation templates where an ISBN number is given.
  100. More accurate searches are possible but expensive and give similar results.
  101. Query 93244
  102. Excludes the 8 hidden categories this article is a member of.
  103. The top 136 articles are international conventions with a category for each participant.
  104. As of 13 February 2020
  105. Selected from a top-10 list of disambiguation pages in 2014[13]
  106. According to the Starling archives.[14]
  107. Previously held by:
  108. Coincides with MediaWiki 1.4
  109. 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.
  110. The current article is about a different Daniel Brandt than the individual in the Essjay controversy.
  111. Transwikied to Wikibooks as a result of this AfD
  112. Includes AfD (Articles for deletion), VfD (Votes for deletion), and DRV (Deletion review) discussions
  113. Deleted and later redone
  114. This is difficult to determine because the Oracle's parsing starts to break down as you go back past 2005 where 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 is also possible to sort the logpages by size.
  115. Query 57896
  116. Query 60970
  117. Query 65798
  118. Phase II software had no way to upload sounds.
  119. From query 65805, largest whatevers on Commons and query 65810, for JPGs
  120. Deleted in 2009, archived on archive.org.
  121. Query 65798
  122. Query 65803
  123. The edit is now at "Maryland" in the modern Wikipedia database
  124. The revision was also the first spam. It lasted five hours before being reverted.
  125. 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.
  126. Wikipedia:Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected articles
  127. Block not in log until 2007; see Special:Diff/794028.
  128. Query 61047
  129. The template displays 33 other navigation templates but is only used in one article.
  130. Originally titled WikiPedia for technical reasons, see camel case
  131. Originally titled Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union

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