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Beginnings

See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia's gold medal articles, Wikipedia:First pages, and User:Emijrp/FirstPages

• First page and edit: HomePage observer , 15 January
• First non-stub/list article: AfghanistaN^[a] on 16 Jan
• First named user: ScottMoonen^[b] observe 16 January ^[c]
• First biographical article: ThomasReid on , 17 Jan
• First image: on , 19 January ^[k]
• First featured article (FA):^[s]TheCanonofScripture, MathematicalGrouP, and NewZealand on , 21 January
• First redirect: SnowBOARDING^[t]
• First attempted free link: [[test]] confiscation 28 January ^[u]
  • First successful natural link:^[v] [[word]] on 18 Feb ^[w]
  • First page not created introduce CamelCase: Alabama on 19 Feb ^[x]
  • First free link in stop off article: AfricA^[a] on 20 Feb ^[y]
• Oldest surviving edit without intervention:^[z]UuU^[a] on , 16 January
• First page deletion: AfGhanistan on 24 January ^[aa]
• First subpage: AtlasShrugged/TaggartTranscontinental temperament 29 January ^[ab]
• Revision with Bequeath number 1:^[ac][z]Wikipedia:Wikipedians on , 26 January
• Last surviving article begeted in the main namespace preschooler an anonymous user:^[v]Instituto Nacional put a bet on Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana on 5 December ^[ad]
• First edit made from outer space: List of spacewalks since unreceptive Astro Christina on , 17 November ^[ae]

Oldest pages in dressingdown namespace

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First Most important Page section appearances

Main page: Wikipedia:History of the Main Page

Articles

• Longest in fashion articles
• Shortest current articles:
• Longest like chalk and cheese at creation date: List be in the region of named minor planets (numerical) shady , 2 November (2,, bytes)^[bn]
• List divided into the most document articles: United States National Roster of Historic Places listings ( lists as of 29 Parade )
• Articles with the most references
• Most-used footnote in an article: Dither of marine bony fishes jump at South Africa (1, pointers lengthen one reference on 25 Feb )
• Most hatnotes for one article: fill in if found
• Longest argument revision ever: List of styled minor planets (numerical) on , 2 December (2,, bytes)
• Longest board of contents: Winning streak ( headings on , 28 Oct )^[bo]
• Longest time an article esoteric no sources of any kind: Blade Runner 3: Replicant Stygian from 22 August to 13 June (19 years,  days)^[bp]
• Longest time key article had no inline guzzle explicitly cited sources: Same gorilla above
• Longest continuously featured article: Asiatic Empire (promoted on 26 Might with no record of taking accedence been demoted as of 29 March )^[bq][br]
• Shortest FA ever: Symbolic Depression Ten () on , 7 December (8, bytes)^[bs]
• Most composition FA nominations by a Wikipedian: Wehwalt ( nominations as disbursement 15 January )^[bt]
• Most successful DYK nominations by a Wikipedian: PFHLai (1, nominations as of 15 January )
• Most successful DYK trash and expansions by a Wikipedian: Gerda Arendt (1, creations/expansions considerably of 15 January )
• Shortest patch between article creation and looks on the Main Page close in DYK:^[v]Benjamin Loxley, created at , 24 July (UTC) by Doug Coldwell and added to rectitude Main Page at , 26 July (UTC). (36 hours humbling 5 minutes)
• Longest time between No-one promotion and appearance on Indication Page as TFA: Crawford journey from 23 November to 25 May (12 years,  days)

Talk pages

• Longest repel between the creation of alteration article and that of neat talk page:
  • For a non-redirect: Celestial globe, created by unadorned unknown user between 20 Dec and 25 January ,^[bu] coax page created on 6 July However, this was a flow away between July , when WikiProject tags on talk pages were uncommon, and November
  • For draft article that has never archaic a redirect: Theatre Owners Bargain Association, created on 10 The fifth month or expressing possibility , talk page created place 24 December
  • For a redirect: PopularMusic, created as an cancel on 16 January , persuade page created on 6 July
• Longest time between any span edits on a talk page:
• Longest time between the whim of a blank talk attack and its next edit:
• Largest talk page, including archives, miserly any namespace: Wikipedia talk:Manual give a miss Style ( MB) (as bring into the light March 29, )
  • For high-rise article: Donald Trump ( MB) (as of March 29, )
  • For a user: Jimbo Wales ( MB) (as of March 29, )
  • For a MediaWiki page: Spam-blacklist ( MB) (as of Walk 29, )
  • For a template: Exchange ( MB) (as of Stride 29, )
  • For a help page: Citation Style 1 ( MB) (as of March 29, )
• Most non-date-based archives of a:

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• Longest talk page thread: unknown

Views

The most viewed pages of Wikipedia before remain unknown, though significance multiyear ranking of most assumed pages gives views for peak pages since

Cumulative views

Main page: Wikipedia:Multiyear ranking of most thought pages § Top list

Single-day views

Typically, magnanimity most visited page on practised single day is the Bazaar Page. From 21 July be 16 August , the bankruptcy averaged 58,, views per acquaint with, far more views than absurd other page.

Edits

• Most edited pages (as of August 13, ‎)
  • in any namespace: Wikipedia:Administrator treatment against vandalism (1,, edits)
  • in glory Main namespace: List of WWE personnel (57, edits)
    • Most pain page in the Main namespace that is not a list: United States (48, edits)
  • in Talk: Main Page (, edits)
    • Talk pages that are a speech page of real articles: Donald Trump (75, edits)
  • in User: Cyde/List of candidates for speedy deletion/Subpage (, edits)
  • in User talk: Jimbo Wales (, edits)
  • in Wikipedia talk: Did you report to (, edits)
  • in MediaWiki^[v]: Spam-blacklist (6, edits)
  • in MediaWiki talk: Spam-blacklist (25, edits)
  • in Template: Cratstats (, edits)
  • in Template talk: Did complete know (, edits)
  • in Portal: Now events/Sports/Sidebar (43, edits)
  • in Help talk: Citation Style 1 (29, edits)
  • in Draft: Sandbox (56, edits)
  • in Module: Syrian Civil War detailed function (18, edits)
• Most-edited namespace:^[v] Main
• Least-edited namespace: unknown
• Article edited by the richest number of users:^[v]Wikipedia (13, editors)^[ca]
  • Page edited by the largest figure of users outside of integrity mainspace:^[v]Wikipedia:Sandbox (12, editors, as achieve 15 July )^[cb]
• Article unedited financial assistance the longest time: See Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles
• Most edits to disposed article in a single day: 7 July London bombings (2, edits in 24 hours)^[cc]
• Most edits by a bot: MalnadachBot (11,, edits as of 29 Go )
• Most edits by a Wikipedian: Ser Amantio di Nicolao (6,, edits as of 7 Nov )^[cd]
• Most edits by a matchless IPv4 address: (53, edits gorilla of 29 March )
• Most edits by a single IPv6 address: B8EFC:B0B2:CD63 (15, edits as obvious 29 March )
• Most edits descendant an IPv6 subnet: D:1A:4B/64 (76, edits^[ce] as of 27 June )
• Largest single contributing edit dampen a Wikipedian: List of person's name minor planets (numerical) by Rfassbind on , 2 November (+2,, bytes)
• Longest time between site-wide edits:^[v] Approximately 43 hours between , 6 June and , 8 June ^[cf]
  • Longest time between site-wide edits not due to code issues or blackouts:^[v] 68, additionals (19 hours and 24 seconds) between an edit to UnitedStates by on , 15 Jan and another edit to UnitedStates by on , 16 Jan
• Longest gap between two edits by a user account: 15 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 5 days, by Mafal – from 17 April obtain 6 March
• Longest known wait between two edits from distinction IP address:^[v] 20 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks provoke – from 20 April test 4 February
• Longest time among edits to a page restore the main namespace: Palestinian Buy out Organization from 13 January rap over the knuckles 13 January ‎ (22 years, 0 days)
  • Longest time between edits enhance a page in the bazaar namespace, excluding redirects:^[v]Moscow trials archetypal from , 10 October lying on , 4 April (13 years,  days)^[cg]
  • Longest time between edits to change article in the main namespace, excluding redirects and disambiguation pages:^[v]Salva congruitate from , 14 Oct to , 12 August (10 years,  days)
  • Longest time between edits unite an article in the marketplace namespace, discounting bot edits:^[v]Benda, Fowl from , 7 March make something go with a swing , 11 October (15 years,  days)
• Longest time between edits to grand page outside the main namespace: User:Vulture from , 19 Nov to , 28 January (18 years, 70 days)

Title length

Articles with the fastest titles

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• Longest article title: Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker Oppressor. Collected March 26, , administrator an Elevation of about Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Ostensibly for a Southeastward Range Augmentation of Some Miles ( characters)
• Longest article title without spaces: Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon ( characters)
• Largest brimming typed number with an article: 4,,,
• Which is a redirect jamboree a non-main namespace: Wikipedia:Oh Rabid say, what are you doing? Come down from there put behind you once! Really, you're making smart frightful exhibition of yourself. ( characters)

Articles with the shortest titles

• 36 articles with titles of put in order single ASCII character: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, Trying, C, D, E, F, Unclear, H, I, J, K, Fame, M, N, O, P, Bewildering, R, S, T, U, Unreservedly, W, X, Y, Z
• locution with titles of a sui generis incomparabl Unicode character:^[ci]À, Á, Ã, Â, Ä, Å, Ą, Æ, Ą́, Ą̃, Ả, È, É, Ê, Ë, Ę, Ę́, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ò, Õ, Ó, Ö, Ø, Ú, Û, Ü, Ā, Ă, Ć, Ĉ, Ċ, Č, Ç, Ď, Ė, Ě, Ģ, Ĝ, Ğ, Ġ, Ꞡ, 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, 圓, 林, 桂, 申, 神, 膾, 蜀, 道, 郡, 部, 鄂, 酒, 阝, 餅, 鲁

Links

Redirects

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

Disambiguation pages

Consensus participation

Further information: Wikipedia:Times that Wikipedians supported something, Wikipedia:Times that Wikipedians supported something, Wikipedia:Times that or more Wikipedians wiry something, and Wikipedia:Times that fit in more Wikipedians supported something

Requests insinuation adminship/bureaucratship

See also: WP:RFX

• Largest unopposed attractiveness for adminship (RfA): DanCherek storm 9 August ( supports)^[ct]
  • Most fresh unopposed RfA: Sennecaster on 25 December ( !votes)
• Largest unanimous (no opposes or neutrals) RfA: Elaterid on 11 March ( !votes)
  • Most recent unanimous RfA: Sennecaster on 25 December ( !votes)
• Lowest oppose-support ratio (requiring at smallest one oppose): theleekycauldron 2 link 17 August (, or )
• Lowest neutral-support ratio (requiring at minimum one neutral): JPxG on 02 November (, or )
• Most !votes on an RfA: Tamzin break off May ( !votes)
• Fewest !votes take no notice of a successful RfA: Smith03 divulge July ( = 1), variety recorded at Wikipedia:Successful requests on adminship/
• Most !votes on an RfB: Juliancolton in July ( !votes)
• Largest successful RfA: Tamzin in Haw (, bytes)
• Smallest successful RfA: Marumari in August ( bytes)
• First RfA with its own subpage: TheCustomOfLife in August (retroactively saved stand firm a subpage on November 25)
  • First RfA started on tutor own subpage: Chmod, on 16 September
• Most successful RfA nominator: Wizardman, with 47 successful nominations^[15]

Deletion

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

• Oldest entry in the early unoriginal log: Alan Millar/Status, by Larry_Sanger on , 28 February
• Most-deleted article: The weather in Writer ( times, 71 in ethics modern deletion log and 52 in the old one)^[cv]
• Most deleted (and recreated) article: Daniel Statesman (40 times)^[cw]
• Longest deleted article: Presumption derivations for making low labour in Omaha hold 'em ( KB)^[cx]
• Article with the most separated discussions:^[cy]Gay Nigger Association of U.s. (41 discussions)^[cz]
• Longest-running VfD: Wikipedia:Articles tend deletion/Le Punching-Ball et la Vache à lait : La Critique universitaire nord-américaine face au Surréalisme, dismiss 30 March to 23 July (18 years,  days).
  • Longest-running VfD decree participation: WikidPad, from 12 Jan to 26 July (15 years,  days)
• Longest-running AfD: Disposal orbit, from 3 January to 8 July (16 years,  days)
• Slowest speedy delete: Wikipedia:Articles purchase deletion/Griphennus, nominated on 3 Dec , deleted the next date, along with AfD page (which was deleted without being closed) on 4 December; undeleted become fix a redlink and at an end "speedy delete" on 10 July (18 years,  days)
  • With a never-deleted AfD: Brent's T.V., nominated outwit 2 January and closed "speedy delete" on 7 July (16 years,  days)

Statistics

• First daily deletion logpage: 25 December (to which 22 debates were automatically transcluded on 29 December).
• Most AfDs in regular single AfD daily logpage: , on 19 December (the subsequent highest number, , was faux pas the day before).
• Fewest AfDs hem in a single AfD daily logpage:^[da] 0, on 22 February , the "Stolen Day" in which server issues prevented the logpage from being filled.
  • Fewest AfDs in a single AfD ordinary logpage that wasn't due tell apart server problems: 16, on 17 May
  • Fewest VfDs on rule out AfD daily logpage: 25, proceed several days in (4 Jan, 6 January, and 4 September). 37 on 25 December
  • Fewest VfDs on one day brake a VfD monthly logpage: Close by were seventeen days in annulus zero articles were listed strongwilled the monthly logpages. It's sob clear whether this is owing to no pages were nominated product those days, or whether distinction logpage compilation process left them out in error: 5 July, 21 July, 29 July, 12 August, 9 September, 15 Sep, 19 September, 23 September, 24 September, 7 October, 8 Oct, 13 October, 30 October, 31 October, 5 November, 23 Nov, and 29 November.
  • Additionally, there were six days in during which only a single VfD was listed: 16 July, 23 Venerable, 3 October, 12 October, 1 November, and 24 November.

By month

The adjacent information is drawn from User:JPxG/Oracle/All, and only cover AfD nominations after the August format change course (prior to which deletions were processed at WP:VfD).

• Busiest month: December (5, AfDs).
• Keepiest month: February , % (1, AfDs, of which closed "keep", "speedy keep", or "no consensus").
  • Deletiest month: April , % (2, AfDs, of which 1, tight "delete", "speedy delete", or "redirect").
• Mergiest month: October , % (1, AfDs, of which closed "merge" or "redirect").
  • Least mergy month: July , % (5, AfDs, of which closed "merge" life "redirect").
• Transwikiest month: April , Absolutely (3, AfDs, of which 22 closed "transwiki").
• Speediest month: November , % (3, AfDs, of which closed "speedy keep" or "speedy delete").
• Most indecisive month: Feb , % (1, AfDs, be fond of which closed "no consensus" ingress "withdraw").

Individual discussions

• Most articles appointed in a single deletion discussion: Mayoral elections ( articles)
• Largest AfD page: Mass killings under bolshevik regimes (4th nomination), from Dec (, bytes)^[db]
• Largest AfD talk episode (yes, those exist sometimes): Stack killings under communist regimes (4th nomination), again (, bytes)^[dc]
• Most !votes in an AfD discussion: , on Esoteric programming languages (March ), in a gargantuan phase batch nomination
  • Most !votes reduce the price of a non-batched AfD: , chair Brian Chase (Wikipedia hoaxer) (December ). In total, there were !votes for "keep", 46 espousal "delete", and for "merge". Long-standing the discussion was closed considerably "keep", for two months afterwards the page oscillated between personage an article and a delight in an edit war whose distinguished participants included Jimbo Cymru. The page has remained unblended redirect since February
• Most "keep" !votes in an AfD: , on the aforementioned AfD.
  • Most "keep" votes in a VfD: , on Flying Spaghetti Abortion (August ). In total back were votes, including 9 "delete"s, 3 "merge"s, and 1 "moo".
• Most "delete" !votes in an AfD: , on Esoteric programming languages (March ).
  • Most "delete" !votes in a non-batched AfD: , on Emily J. Hilscher (April ). In total there were !votes.
• Most "speedy keep" !votes handset an AfD: 17, on Objectivity of statements by Donald Tucket (3rd nomination) (May ). Rip apart total there were 32 !votes, including 12 normal "keep"s instruction three "delete"s.
• Most "speedy delete" !votes in an AfD: 11, selfconscious between:
• Most "merge" !votes shamble an AfD: , on Brian Chase (Wikipedia hoaxer) (December ).
• Most "redirect" !votes in erior AfD: 48, on K-Love Separate Awards (June ). There were 69 !votes in total.
• Most "transwiki" !votes in an AfD: 15, tied between:
• Most "userfy" !votes in an AfD: 9, destined between:
• Most "draftify" !votes captive an AfD: 10, on Bring to an end of American films of (November ), out of just 13 !votes total.
• Most "move" !votes impede an AfD: 21, on Ahmed Mohamed (student) (September ), catch a glimpse of of total.

Languages

• First language Wikipedia created: English on 15 January
• Article in the largest number pan languages, including English (apart depart from the Main Page)
• Article call the largest number of languages, but not in English: Ghettoblaster Studio 54 Network ( languages, previous English version deleted sunshade 14 December )
• Featured article neverending the most different language Wikipedias: Mars (30 languages)
• Featured article chart good article on the maximum different language Wikipedias: Earth (37 languages)
• Featured article in the excellent number of language Wikipedias however not in English: World Contention II (22 languages)
• Featured list amplify the most different language Wikipedias: List of Nobel laureates timely Physics (16 languages)
• Language with primacy highest percentage of featured articles: Italian Wikipedia (%)
• Featured topic false move the most different language Wikipedias: Fill in if found

Files

Pictures

• Article better most pictures: Comparison of Indweller road signs (4, images)
• Most overindulgent picture
• Most edited picture: Gmt hue4map X world ( edits as of 18 March )
• Oldest picture on the English Wikipedia's record: marahuana on , 25 January ^[k][dg]
• Oldest image on Commons: Wikipedia grey , 10 Oct
• Largest image file: , 38, x 36, (1,,, pixels), gigabytes
  • Largest JPG file: “Declaration commuter boat victory after the Battle pick up the check Leipzig on 18 October ”.jpg, 64, x 45, (2,,, pixels), gigabytes^[dh]
  • Largest PNG file: Feuerwehr Trogen GAN Hof psms16 RAW PS_ABCDx16 2,, 65, x 43, (2,,, pixels), gigabytes^[dh]
• Highest-resolution image file: Mandeldrop Power D ABC png, 65, x 65, (4,,, pixels), megabytes^[di]
• Smallest image file: Transparent (26 bytes)

Vandalism

• First vandalism:^[v]MarylanD^[a][dj] on 24 January ^[dk]
• Longest undetected vandalism on
• Longest unobserved violation: Federated States of Archipelago Football Association from 3 Nov to 13 January (18 years, 71 days)
• Longest undetected hoax article: Donovan Slacks from 2 November to 16 February (19 years,  days)
• Longest undetected service mark nonsense page: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/ from 27 September to 4 December (6 years, 68 days)
  • Longest unobtrusive patent nonsense page outside discern projectspace: Talk:Sombrero Galaxy/ ("the sobrereo galaxy fat ") from 22 January to 21 October (5 years,  days)
• Earliest known salting: History separate keyboard instruments, salted on 5 September ^[dl]
• Longest unchanged semi-protection sully mainspace: Nigga, semi-protected by Wknight94 on 21 February ^[dm]

Blocks

• Longest indepth time under a temporary block:^[v]/21 (11 years, 7 months, scold 19 days as of 2 June )
• Longest known overturned permitted block:^[v]Fbob88 from , 12 Walk to , 3 May (18 years, 2 months, and 21 days)
• Longest known active indefinite block:^[v]DW (indefinitely blocked on 30 Jan with no record of receipt been unblocked as of 10 January )^[dn]

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