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This is a page detailing various records of Wikipedia. Some of them may never be fully known, but it's worth listing the ones we know. Please fill the gaps in, and add your own records!

[edit] 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 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

[edit] Articles

• Oldest: UuU (20:08, 16 January 2001)
• Longest article: Line of succession to the British Throne (322K as of November 30, 2007)
• Longest article that is not a list: USA PATRIOT Act (224K as of August 25, 2007)
• Longest biography article: Paul Wolfowitz (166K as of August 25, 2007)
• Article with longest introduction:
• Longest featured article:
• Shortest featured article: Hurricane Irene (2005) (9.3 KiB as of January 31, 2008)
• Articles with most references:
  • Suicide bombings in Iraq since 2003 has 763 as of 12 January, 2008
  • That is not a list: Roman Catholic Church has 375
  • That is a biography: Hillary Clinton has 341; Mary Shelley has 253
• Most archives of one Article talk page: Talk:Jesus (102)
• Biggest use of Article talk page:
• Most visited page (apart from Main Page): Chris Benoit had 501,400 views per day in 06/2007.[1]
• Most accepted FA nominations - 57 by Elmsworth
• Most DYK articles - 262+ by Piotrus

[edit] 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): Rich Farmbrough (See Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits)
• Most edits by an IP address: 202.156.6.54

[edit] 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.
• The article with the longest title that isn't a redirect is How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare, robbed a grave, made a new friend who might not have really been there at all, and while he was at it committed a terrible sin which everyone was doing even though he didn't know it.
• Article with shortest title: Several with one character, such as (1) ' (2) A

[edit] 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 73 categories (see Special:Mostcategories)
• Oldest red link:
• Most linked to image: (See Mostimages)

[edit] 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

[edit] Languages

• Article in largest number of languages: India in 175 languages
• 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: S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 (57%, Featured article on 4 different wikipedias, has an article on 7 wikipedias)
• Language with highest percentage of featured articles:
• Fastest-growing language:

[edit] 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:

[edit] Deletion

• Most vandalised article: George W. Bush
• Most vandalised talk page:
• Longest undetected vandalism:
• Most deleted (and reborn) article:
• 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.

[edit] 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:

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• History of Wikipedia