Wiki143:Wikipedia records

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

Beginnings

• First page and edit: Template:Noredirect on 19:27, 15 January 2001
• First non-stub/list article: AfghanistaNTemplate:Efn on 16 January 2001
• First named user: ScottMoonenTemplate:Efn on 16 January 2001Template:Efn
  • User with the earliest creation date per Special:ListUsers: WojPob on 29 January 2001
  • User with ID number 1:Template:EfnTemplate:Efn Damian Yerrick on 29 September 2001
• First biographical article: ThomasReid on 00:10, 17 January 2001
  • First biographical article of a living person: William AlstonTemplate:Efn on 00:13, 17 January 2001
  • First biographical article of a woman: Rosa Parks on 17:32, 21 January 2001Template:Efn
  • First biographical article to be updated after the subject's death: Jack Lemmon on 22:55, 28 June 2001Template:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
• First image: http://www.8ung.at/hansjoergbrugger/geige.gif on 19:03, 19 January 2001Template:Efn
  • First file page: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled_Water.ogg, 4 August 2002Template:Efn
  • First JPG: http://www.lclark.edu/~nilsen/nilsenfam.jpg at HumanComputerInteraction on 10:12:44, 25 January 2001
  • First PNG:Template:Efn turtle.pngTemplate:Efn at Logo (programming language) on 30 March 2001Template:Efn
    • 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 2001Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
  • 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.jpgTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
• First featured article (FA):Template:Efn TheCanonofScripture, MathematicalGrouP, and NewZealand on 23:53, 21 January 2001
• First redirect: SnowBOARDINGTemplate:Efn
• First attempted free link: [[test]] on 28 January 2001Template:Efn
  • First successful free link:Template:Efn [[word]] on 18 February 2001Template:Efn
  • First page not created as CamelCase: Alabama on 19 February 2001Template:Efn
  • First free link in an article: AfricATemplate:Efn on 20 February 2001Template:Efn
• Oldest surviving edit without intervention:Template:Efn UuUTemplate:Efn on 20:08, 16 January 2001
• First page deletion: AfGhanistan on 24 January 2001Template:Efn
• First subpage: AtlasShrugged/TaggartTranscontinental on 29 January 2001Template:Efn
• Revision with ID number 1:Template:EfnTemplate:Efn Wikipedia:Wikipedians on 14:25, 26 January 2002
• Last surviving article created in the main namespace by an anonymous user:Template:Efn Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana on 5 December 2005Template:Efn
• First edit made from outer space: List of spacewalks 2015–2024Template:Efn by Astro Christina on 18:16, 17 November 2019Template:Efn

Oldest pages in each namespace

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

• Main: HomePage on 19:27, 15 January 2001
  • Talk: Christianity/Archive 1Template:Efn on 26 January 2001Template:Efn
• User: ScottMoonen on 16 January 2001Template:Efn
  • User talk: Damian Yerrick on 1 October 2001Template:Efn
• Wikipedia: UuU on 16 January 2001
  • Oldest page that was created in the Wikipedia namespace and not moved from mainspace: Template:Noredirect, first recorded edit 27 January 2002 but probably created the day beforeTemplate:Efn
  • Wikipedia talk: Contents/CategorySchemesTalk on 27 January 2001Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
• Special: RecentChangesTemplate:Efn on 16 January 2001
• Help: Starting a new page on 16 April 2001Template:Efn
  • Help talk: Starting a new page on 26 July 2001Template:Efn
• Portal: Current events/October 2003 on 15 November 2001Template:Efn, followed by Current events/April 2002 on 29 November 2001
  • Portal talk: Current events/Background articles for ongoing events on 28 October 2002Template:Efn
• File: Tetris-branch.pngTemplate:Efn on 18:48:31, 26 January 2002Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
  • File talk: WikiEditsAug2002.JPG on 12 August 2002Template:Efn
• Template: Template:Tl on 02:27, 30 September 2002
  • Template talk: Chembox on 28 March 2003
• MediaWiki: Recentchangestext on 13 February 2003Template:Efn
  • MediaWiki talk: Recentchangestext on 15 February 2003Template:Efn
• Category: Futurama on 30 May 2004Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
  • Category talk: World War II on 30 May 2004Template:Efn
• Module talk: Infobox military conflict on 18 February 2005
  • Module talk: Convert on 19 February 2013Template:Efn
• MOS: MOS:DP on 26 November 2005 (this was considered in the main namespace until 12 September 2024)
  • MOS talk: MOS talk:IDENTITY on 13 October 2008 (this was considered in the talk namespace until 12 September 2024)
• Module: Location map/data/United Kingdom Edinburgh/doc on 22 June 2006
  • Oldest page that was created in the Module namespace: Citation on 25 August 2012Template:Efn
• TimedText: They Are Night Zombies!! - Sufjan Stevens - clip.ogg.en.srt on 1 November 2012Template:Efn
  • TimedText talk: They Are Night Zombies!! - Sufjan Stevens - clip.ogg.en.srt on 1 November 2012Template:Efn
• Draft: List of sex symbols on 17 October 2001Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
  • Oldest page that was created in the Draft namespace: Example on 17 December 2013
• Draft talk: List of sex symbols/Archive 1 on 16 October 2001Template:Efn
  • Draft talk: Example on 17 December 2013
• Event: Event:Sandbox/VWalters-WMF/en-qs-test on 19 February 2025
  • Event talk: Event talk:Wikicurious Pi Day SXSW 2025 on 1 March 2025

First Main Page section appearances

Wikipedia's first picture of the day

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.

Section	Title	Date
Main Page	"This is the new WikiPedia!"Template:Efn	15 January 2001
In the news	September 11 attacksTemplate:Efn Dudley MooreTemplate:Efn (Recent deaths) 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic (Special header)	11 September 2001Template:Efn 27 March 2002Template:Efn (Recent deaths) 16 March 2020 to 29 January 2021 (Special header)
On this day	Various articles	21 October 2002
Today's featured article	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	22 February 2004
Did you know	Pencil sharpener	22 February 2004
Picture of the day	Virgin River Narrows	14 May 2004
Today's featured list	List of signs and symptoms of diving disorders	13 June 2011Template:Efn

Articles

• Longest current articles
  • that is a list or timeline: List of chiropterans (741,358 bytes as of 25 June 2025)
  • that is not a list or timeline: Gaza genocide (601,346 bytes as of 25 June 2025)
  • that is a biography: Joe Biden (495,065 bytes as of 25 June 2025)
  • that is a non-political biography: Tom Brady (487,395 bytes as of 25 June 2025)
  • that is a featured article:Template:Efn Lady Gaga (381,232 bytes as of 25 June 2025)
  • that is a featured list:Template:Efn List of chiropterans (741.358 bytes as of 25 June 2025)
  • that is a good article (GA):Template:Efn Philippines (479,863 bytes as of 25 June 2025)
• Shortest current articles:
  • that is a featured article:Template:Efn Miss Meyers (9,417 bytes as of 6 June 2025)
  • that is a featured list:Template:Efn List of The Unit episodes (4,745 bytes as of 6 June 2025)
  • that is a good article (GA):Template:Efn Ohio State Route 778 (4,082 bytes as of 6 June 2025)
• Longest article at creation date: List of subnational entities by Human Development Index by WikiMacaroons on 23:08, 15 March 2025 (+2,075,398 bytes)
• List divided into the most list articles: United States National Register of Historic Places listings (Template:Search link as of 15 April 2025)
• Articles with the most references
  • Municipal history of Quebec (1,660 references as of 30 June 2025)
  • that is not a list or timeline: 1559–1562 French political crisis (1,033 references as of 30 June 2025)
  • that is a biography: Joe Biden (848 references as of 30 June 2025)
• Most-used reference in an article: List of marine bony fishes of South Africa (1,378 pointers to one reference on 25 February 2024)
• Most unique footnotes in one article:Template:Efn 24-cell (180 footnotes on 18 March 2024)Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
• Most hatnotes for one article: fill in if found
  • Most hatnotes placed on the top of an article: Enclosed Alphanumerics (eight separate hatnotes)
• Longest article revision ever: List of subnational entities by Human Development Index on 01:09, 18 March 2025 (2,081,376 bytes)
• Longest table of contents: Winning streak (602 headings on 00:59, 28 October 2018)Template:Efn
• Longest time an article had no sources of any kind: Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night from 22 August 2001 to 13 June 2021 (Template:Ayd)Template:Efn
• Longest time an article had no inline or explicitly cited sources: Same as above
• Longest continuously featured article: Byzantine Empire (26 May 2001 – 18 April 2025; Template:Ayd)Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
  • Longest continuously good article (never removed, and never promoted to featured article status): Great Comet of 1882 (since 26 September 2005; Template:Ayd)Template:Efn
• Shortest FA ever: Tropical Depression Ten (2005) on 08:22, 4 September 2014 (8,475 bytes)Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
• Most successful FA nominations by a Wikipedian: Wehwalt (237 nominations as of 14 April 2025)Template:Efn
• Most successful DYK nominations by a Wikipedian: PFHLai (1,002 nominations as of 12 April 2025)
• Most successful DYK creations and expansions by a Wikipedian: Gerda Arendt (1,968 creations/expansions as of 12 April 2025)
• Shortest time between article creation and appearance on the Main Page in DYK:Template:Efn 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 (Template:Ayd)

Talk pages

• Longest time between the creation of an article and that of its talk page:
  • For a non-redirect: Celestial globe, created by an unknown user between 20 December 2001 and 25 January 2002,Template:Efn 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: Template:-r, created as an article on 16 January 2001, talk page created on 6 July 2020
• Longest time between any two edits on a talk page:
  • Talk:Emmer wheat, for the redirect Emmer wheat which had not been tagged as merged to Emmer. 7,352 days by Template:U
• Longest time between the creation of a blank talk page and its next edit:
  • Talk:MySQLPHP, for the redirect MySQLPHP, which was blank for 6,241 days between 21 October 2004 and 22 November 2021 (now points to the article's redirect target, at Talk:LAMP (software bundle)).
• Largest talk page, including archives, for any namespace: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (151.96 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
  • For an article: Donald Trump (26.71 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
  • For a user: Jimbo Wales (72.61 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
  • For a MediaWiki page: Spam-blacklist (10.52 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
  • For a template: Convert (6.92 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
  • For a help page: Citation Style 1 (16.01 MB) (as of March 29, 2024)
• Most non-date-based archives of a:
  • Mainspace talk page: Main Page (208)
    • Mainspace talk page that is not the Main Page: Donald Trump (187) and Jesus (137)
  • User talk page: Jimbo Wales (259)Template:Efn
    • that is a talk page of a user subpageTemplate:Efn: Daniel Mietchen/SuggestBot (90)
  • Wikipedia talk page: Requests for adminship (270)
  • Wikipedia namespace page (for discussions): Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions (1,247)
  • File talk page: Same-sex marriage in the United States.svg (18)
  • MediaWiki talk page: Common.js (23)
  • Template talk page: {{Infobox person}} (39)
  • Help talk page: Citation Style 1 (97)
  • Category talk page: Living people (4)
  • Portal talk page: Current events (13)
  • Module talk page: WikiProject banner (15)

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

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

Records as of 1 January 2023:

• Most visited page: Main Page, followed by Special:Search and Special:Random
• Most visited article:Template:Efn YouTube, followed by Wiki and then FacebookTemplate:Efn
• Most visited article that is not about a website: United States, followed by Donald Trump
• Most visited article that is not about a website nor related specifically to the United States: Elizabeth II, followed by India and then Cristiano Ronaldo

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.

• Most visits to the Main Page on a single day: 67,166,302 views, on 26 July 2016.
• Most visited article on a single day:Template:Efn Chadwick Boseman on 29 August 2020 (9,929,065 views)Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
• Most visited article on a single day that was not just after the subject's death: Pope Leo XIV on 8 May 2025 (7,581,477 views)Template:Efn

Edits

• Most edited pages (as of May 7, 2025‎)
  • in any namespace: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (2,068,414 edits)
  • in the Main namespace: List of WWE personnel (58,809 edits)
    • Most edited page in the Main namespace that is not a list: United States (51,976 edits)
  • in Talk: Main Page (155,633 edits)
    • Talk pages that are a talk page of real articles: Donald Trump (96,020 edits)
  • in User: Cyde/List of candidates for speedy deletion/Subpage (991,611 edits)
    • Userpages that are not redirects: AmandaNP/UAA/Time (556,238 edits)
    • Userpages that are not subpages: Gerda Arendt (20,839 edits)
  • in User talk: Jimbo Wales (165,281 edits)
    • which are subpages: ImageTaggingBot/log (45,315 edits)
  • in Wikipedia talk: Did you know (145,976 edits)
  • in MediaWiki:Template:Efn Spam-blacklist (6,483 edits)
  • in MediaWiki talk: Spam-blacklist (27,354 edits)
  • in Template: Cratstats (113,688 edits)
    • Templates that are used in the Main namespace: COVID-19 pandemic data (89,431 edits)
  • in Template talk: Did you know (410,629 edits)
  • in Portal: Current events/Sports/Sidebar (44,675 edits)
  • in Help talk: Citation Style 1 (34,190 edits)
  • in Draft: Sandbox (60,138 edits)
  • in Module: Syrian Civil War detailed map (18,634 edits)
• Most-edited namespace:Template:Efn Main
• Least-edited namespace: unknown
• Article edited by the largest number of users:Template:Efn Wikipedia (13,671 editors)Template:Efn
  • Page edited by the largest number of users outside of the mainspace:Template:Efn Wikipedia:Sandbox (12,024 editors as of 15 July 2019)Template:Efn
• 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)Template:Efn
• Most edits by a bot: MalnadachBot (11,637,095 edits as of 28 April 2023)Template:Efn
• Most edits by a Wikipedian: Ser Amantio di Nicolao (6,427,808 edits as of 27 March 2025)Template:Efn
• Most edits by a single IPv4 address: 84.90.219.128 (53,065 edits as of 29 March 2024)
• Most edits by a single IPv6 address: 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (15,826 edits as of 29 March 2024)
• Most edits by an IPv6 subnet: 240D:1A:4B5:2800::/64 (76,605 editsTemplate:Efn as of 27 June 2022)
• Largest single contributing edit by a Wikipedian: List of subnational entities by Human Development Index by WikiMacaroons on 23:08, 15 March 2025 (+2,075,398 bytes)
• Longest time between site-wide edits:Template:Efn Approximately 43 hours between 16:00, 6 June 2004 and 02:40, 8 June 2004Template:Efn
  • Longest time between site-wide edits not due to software issues or blackouts:Template:Efn 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
• Longest gap between two edits by a user account: 15 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 5 days, by Mafal – from 17 April 2008 to 6 March 2024.
  • Followed by: Benc (15 years and 6 months from 23 December 2004 to 10 June 2020) and Baristarim (14 years and 4 months from 8 November 2007 to 18 March 2022).
• Longest known gap between two edits from an IP address:Template:Efn 20 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks by 24.107.65.221 – from 20 April 2003 to 4 February 2024.
• Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace: Template:Noredirect from 15:51, 25 February 2002 to 18:59, 28 January 2025 (Template:Ayd)
  • Longest time between edits to a page in the main namespace, excluding redirects:Template:Efn Moscow trials of 1938 from 20:25, 10 October 2010 to 15:05, 4 April 2023 (Template:Ayd)Template:Efn
  • Longest time between edits to an article in the main namespace, excluding redirects and disambiguation pages:Template:Efn Salva congruitate from 09:04, 14 October 2013 to 22:32, 12 August 2024 (Template:Ayd)
  • Longest time between edits to an article in the main namespace, discounting bot edits:Template:Efn Benda, Guinea from 21:03, 7 March 2009 to 14:20, 11 October 2024 (Template:Ayd)
• Longest time between edits to a page outside the main namespace: User:Vulture from 03:02, 19 November 2004 to 17:10, 28 January 2023 (Template:Ayd)

Title length

Articles with the longest titles

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.

• 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 (250 characters)
  • Which is a redirect:Template:Efn 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456 (255 characters)
  • Which is a list: List of campaign organisations supporting Remain in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (112 characters)
  • Which is a disambiguation page: D-beta-D-heptose 7-phosphate kinase/D-beta-D-heptose 1-phosphate adenylyltransferase (84 characters)
• Longest article title without spaces: Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon (211 characters)
  • Which is a redirect: Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabomelito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon (210 characters) (note that the number of letters is the same, despite the lower character count)
• Largest full typed number with an article: 100,000,000,000
  • Smallest full typed number with an article: -1
• Which is a redirect on a non-main namespace: Wikipedia:Oh I say, what are you doing? Come down from there at once! Really, you're making a frightful exhibition of yourself. (128 characters)

Articles with the shortest titles

• 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:Template:Efn 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

Record	Page	Number	As of	Note
Page linked to by most other pages	Wikipedia:WikiProject	11,793,258	24 April 2025
Article in main namespace with most inbound links	Network address translation‏‎	1,855,283	29 March 2024	Template:Efn
Article or redirect linked to by most other articles	ISBN (identifier)	Template:Search link	30 April 2025	Template:Efn
Article linked to by most other articles in their own source text (not via templates)	United States	Template:Search link	30 April 2025	Template:Efn
Most distinct outgoing linksTemplate:Efn (list or list-like article)	Index of Singapore-related articles	13,900	30 April 2025	Template:Efn
Most distinct outgoing linksTemplate:Efn (not a list or list-like article)	Conservatism	5,308	30 April 2025	Template:Efn
Article in most categories	First Geneva Convention	247Template:Efn	16 April 2025	Template:Efn
Article in most categories (including hidden categories)	List of ISO 639-2 codes	406	16 April 2025
Non-convention article in most categories	Shape of You	161	16 April 2025
Most external links in one articleTemplate:Efn	List of MeSH codes (D02)	2,521	30 April 2025
Longest-lasting red link on WikipediaTemplate:Efn	Chaabane Younes on Portal:Current events/2005 January 4	Created 25 September 2005	Removed on 28 March 2023, by redirecting to Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
Longest-lasting extant red link on Wikipedia	fill in if found
Longest lasting red link in an article	Islamic Armed Movement on Abdelhak Layada	Created 28 June 2006	Removed 26 April 2022 Re Added after page created on 28 April 2023
Image linked on most pages	File:Information.svg	4,751,058	28 April 2025

Redirects

• Article with the most redirects: Hangul (7,111 redirects as of 29 April 2025)
  • Excluding Unicode characters: List of highways numbered 1000–1499 (5,796 redirects as of 29 April 2025)
  • Excluding redirects to numerical lists: OMICS Publishing Group (2,875 redirects as of 29 April 2025)

Disambiguation pages

Disambiguation pages with the most "may refer to" entriesTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
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 (1,641 entries as of 6 February 2021)
• Oldest known disambiguation hatnote: Nirvana (band) and Nirvana (Buddhism). Added to each article by Tim Shell on January 27, 2001.Template:Efn

Consensus participation

Requests for adminship/bureaucratship

• Largest unopposed request for adminship (RfA): DanCherek on 9 August 2022 (281 supports)Template:Efn
  • 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: Template:U, with 47 successful nominations

Requests for Comment

• Largest RFC: Fox News (news): politics & science on 22 September 2022 (636,935 bytes)

Deletion

• Oldest entry in the early 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 2004Template:Efn
• Most-deleted article: The weather in London (123 times, 71 in the modern deletion log and 52 in the old one)Template:Efn
• Most deleted (and recreated) article: Daniel Brandt (40 times)Template:Efn
• Longest deleted article: Probability derivations for making low hands in Omaha hold 'em (305 KB)Template:Efn
• Article with the most deletion discussions:Template:Efn Gay Nigger Association of America (41 discussions)Template:Efn
• Longest-running VfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Le Punching-Ball et la Vache à lait : La Critique universitaire nord-américaine face au Surréalisme, from 30 March 2004 to 23 July 2022 (Template:Ayd).
  • Longest-running VfD with participation: WikidPad, from 12 January 2005 to 26 July 2020 (Template:Ayd)
• Longest-running AfD: Disposal orbit, from 3 January 2006 to 8 July 2022 (Template:Ayd)
• Slowest speedy delete: Template:Pagelog, nominated on 5 June 2025 at 22:01 UTC and deleted on 6 June 2025 at 10:42 UTC (12 hours, 41 minutes)
  • With a never-deleted AfD: Brent's T.V., nominated on 2 January 2006 and closed "speedy delete" on 7 July 2022 (Template:Ayd)
• Longest-running RfD: Fill in if found
• Most-relisted RfD: Fill in if found
• Longest-running MfD: Fill in if found

Statistics

• 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:Template:Efn 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 2014.
  • 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

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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").
  • Tardiest 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

• Most articles nominated in a single deletion discussion: Mayoral elections (271 articles)
• Largest AfD page: Mass killings under communist regimes (4th nomination), from December 2021 (510,874 bytes)Template:Efn
• Largest AfD talk page (yes, those exist sometimes): Mass killings under communist regimes (4th nomination), again (194,232 bytes)Template:Efn
• 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 !votes for "keep", 46 for "delete", and 124 for "merge". While the discussion was closed as "keep", for two months afterward the page oscillated between being an article and a redirect in an edit war whose distinguished participants included Jimbo Wales. The page has remained a redirect since February 2006.
• Most "keep" !votes in an AfD: 146, on the aforementioned 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

• First language Wikipedia created: English on 15 January 2001
• Article in the largest number of languages, including English (apart from the Main Page)
  • excluding test wikis: Turkey (330 languages)
  • including test wikis: Kurów (363 languages)
• 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

Files

• Largest file on Commons is File:Politparade.webm (4 GB)Template:Efn
• First sound: File:SAMPA Q dot bomb wasp English RP.ogg, originally uploaded on 11:49, 20 July 2002Template:Efn

Oldest existing files on Commons by format, including those imported after Commons was founded in 2004Template:Efn
Format	File	Date created
PNG	Wikipedia grey square.png	10 October 2002
JPEG	SesshuAmanohashidate.jpg	21 February 2003
MIDI	Piano Concerto No. 5 (E flat Major) - Movement 2 - Adagio un poco mosso.mid	2 May 2004
WAV	Sgeoct.wav	16 September 2004
OGG	Nl-Duits.ogg	27 September 2004
X-XCF	Map of Italy.xcf	14 November 2004
OGV	Lsf exo chiffres abc.ogv	16 November 2004
PDF	Odell Hardware Company.pdf	30 January 2005
SVG+XML	Tectonic plates.svg	10 September 2005
VND.DJVU	Drei Register Arithmetischer ahnfeng zur Practic.djvu	24 June 2006
TIFF	Aries and Musca Borealis2.tif	16 March 2009
WEBM	2012-07-18 Market Street - San Francisco.webm	7 November 2012
X-FLAC	Wahwah.flac	8 July 2013
WEBP	Webp-minilogo.webp	12 January 2017
MPEG	Chopin - Waltz in E minor, B 56.mp3	30 November 2017
STL	Goat5k.stl	1 January 2018

Pictures

File:Transparent 26Bytes.gif

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

• Article with most pictures: Comparison of European road signs (4,012 images)
• Most used picture
  • in main namespace articles: Information.svg (4,776,141 times)
  • counting only links from main namespace articles: Question book-new.svg (407,468 times)
• Most edited picture: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg (1,198 edits as of 27 February 2025)
• Oldest picture on the English Wikipedia's record: marahuana warning.png on 14:07:29, 25 January 2002Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
  • Oldest picture accessible under current MediaWiki records: Tetris-branch.pngTemplate:Efn on 18:48:31, 26 January 2002Template:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
  • Oldest currently-accessible image revision: Hoaxed photo of the Loch Ness monster.jpg on 10:51, 15 March 2003
  • Oldest entry in the modern upload log: Mini Christmas tree.png by Fredrik on 23 December 2004Template:Efn
  • Oldest own work file uploaded: 1934 Chevrolet Master Sedan.jpg, taken in 1950, and uploaded in 2014 by BeenAroundAWhile
• Oldest image on Commons: Wikipedia grey square.png, 10 October 2002
• Largest image file: Vienna-big.tif, 38,970 x 36,186 (1,410,168,420 pixels), 3.94 gigabytes
  • Largest JPG file: “Declaration of victory after the Battle of Leipzig on 18 October 1813”.jpg, 64,172 x 45,559 (2,923,612,148 pixels), 1.49 gigabytesTemplate:Efn
  • Largest PNG file: Feuerwehr Trogen GAN Hof04582 psms16 RAW PS202108301056_20211120ABCDx16 2,7GP.png, 65,520 x 43,860 (2,861,913,600 pixels), 3.23 gigabytesTemplate:Efn
• Highest-resolution image file: Mandeldrop20210909 Power100 D-00001 ABC123 00001.png, 65,535 x 65,535 (4,294,836,225 pixels), 72.47 megabytesTemplate:Efn
  • Highest resolution JPG: Symbole Beyou .jpg, 65,500 x 65,500 (4,290,250,000 pixels), 192.41 megabytesTemplate:Efn
• Smallest image file: Transparent 26Bytes.gif (26 bytes)

Vandalism

• First vandalism:Template:Efn MarylanDTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn on 24 January 2001Template:Efn
• Longest undetected vandalism on...
  • An article: 2006 Thai coup d'état: from 18 December 2006 to 4 March 2025 (Template:Ayd)
  • A featured article: Halley's Comet from 8 March 2010 to 29 June 2024 (Template:Ayd)
  • A redirect page: Template:-r from 23 February 2008 to 27 December 2024 (Template:Ayd)
  • A talk page: Healthcare industry from 27 July 2004 to 19 November 2024 (Template:Ayd)
  • A user talk page: 211.29.254.122 from 8 October 2006 to 29 December 2021 (Template:Ayd)
  • A file: File:Paintball attire.jpg from 5 December 2006 to 20 April 2023 (Template:Ayd)
  • A project page: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/New England Patriots seasons/archive1 from 10 October 2007 to 15 May 2023 (Template:Ayd)
• Longest undetected copyright violation: Nicolás Espinoza from 9 March 2007 to 31 May 2025 (Template:Ayd)
• Longest undetected hoax article: Donovan Slacks from 2 November 2004 to 16 February 2024 (Template:Ayd)
• Longest undetected patent nonsense page: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2013-04-15 from 27 September 2016 to 4 December 2022 (Template:Ayd)
  • Longest undetected patent nonsense page outside of projectspace: Talk:Sombrero Galaxy/ ("the sobrereo galaxy fat ") from 22 January 2018 to 21 October 2023 (Template:Ayd)
• Earliest known salting: History on keyboard instruments, salted on 5 September 2004Template:Efn
• Longest unchanged semi-protection in mainspace: Nigga, semi-protected by Wknight94 on 21 February 2007Template:Efn

Blocks

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

Categories and templates

Categories

• Largest category: Content, followed by Articles, followed by Main topic classifications. Counting pages only (excluding subcategories), the largest is Articles with short description; the largest which is not maintenance Living people; which is not intentionally undivided on subcategories Album covers; and which is not files Surnames.
• Category in the largest number of languages: Europe (291 languages)
  • but not in English: Industry (manufacturing) (135 languages)

Templates

• Largest template by page size: Template:Tl (2,040,080 bytes as of 29 December 2021)Template:Efn
• Largest navigation template:Template:Efn Shakespeare's plays (1,837 wikilinks as of 15 June 2020)Template:Efn
• Template with the most transclusions: Template:Tl (13,870,818 as of 16 March 2022)
  • Template with the most main-namespace transclusions:Template:Efn Template:Tl (8,403,198 as of 10 August 2019)
• Module with the most invocations: Arguments (29,371,486 as of 16 March 2022)

Milestones

Articles

Article number	Title	Date created	Days elapsed from the last milestone
1	WikipediaTemplate:Efn	15 January 2001	-
100,000	Hastings, New Zealand	21 January 2003	Template:Age in years and days
500,000	Special settlements in the Soviet UnionTemplate:Efn	17 March 2005	Template:Age in years and days
1,000,000	Jordanhill railway station	1 March 2006	Template:Age in years and days
2,000,000	El Hormiguero	9 September 2007	Template:Age in years and days
3,000,000	Beate Eriksen	17 August 2009	Template:Age in years and days
4,000,000	Ezbet El Borg	13 July 2012	Template:Age in years and days
5,000,000	Persoonia terminalis	1 November 2015	Template:Age in years and days
6,000,000	Maria Elise Turner Lauder	23 January 2020	Template:Age in years and days
7,000,000	Operators and Things	28 May 2025	Template:Age in years and days

Users

User number	User	Date registered
100,000	Wakmah
1,000,000	Jchriscampbell	27 February 2006
10,000,000	Simeon Stylites	27 June 2009

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:ADMINSTATS
• Wikipedia:Statistics
• Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps